Man badly wounded after stabbing on 7MB
(CNS): Tourists were, once again, witnesses to violence at Seven Mile Public Beach this week after a man was stabbed multiple times during an altercation among vendors, CNS has learned. The violent assault took place before noon on Wednesday, 19 April. Afterwards, the injured man was taken to hospital with serious stab wounds to his face, arms and back.
Police officers conducted inquiries at the beach and confirmed that the man had been stabbed during the dispute. They are now appealing for witnesses to come forward.
Anyone who may have seen the incident or have any information to contact George Town CID at 949-4222.
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was witness to an another deplorable incident at the bus station yesterday where a man tried to steal a bus with passengers on it and then beat a man up in the street. doubt rcips will even report it. another great memory for the tourists to take away.
probably JAMAICANS
Absolutely disgusting, if the parties involved had so much as an ounce of pride and education they would not have resorted to this despicable behavior. No shame whatsoever.
Any arrests yet?
Does anyone know if the man was okay? We were there last year when it happened on vacation with our kids. He ran into the ocean to get away from the man
Get rid of all beach vendors. Its tacky and makes Cayman look like a 3rd world country.
Sorry but it is way to late now, Cayman is well entrenched into being a 3rd world country. All they got going for it is the no income tax so all the rich folks come here to hide the money from their home country tax agencies. If Cayman was ever to start taxing the rich, then it would dry up like a prune.
You do understand that they don’t actually have to come here to do that, right? Thats what our financial services industry is for.
Excuse me,…… but Cayman IS a third world country!!!
Imagine Cayman has come to the point where you now have higglers at the public beaches, scraping and clawing for money, in some instances straight out annoying the tourist. I’m curious to see who these “vendors” actually are. This was never allowed in Cayman until of very recent. Whose culture exactly is this, because it isn’t ours. Big Development requires cheap labor and we know it predominantly comes from the Caribbean and Latin/Central America. What happens when the development slows down and you have given all the laborers PR and Status? This is a disaster waiting to happen and they Cayman Islands (Caymanian) Government is to incompetent to envision it.
Its part of Caymans culture to blame other cultures for their problems. We get it. We understand. You will too someday when your reputation starts being important to you.
let me guess they stabbed each other in one of the public cabanas that they all set up shop in….
The idea of providing locals the means to sell their products is good after the fact that the business coming to the beach is not scared away, and such a product offered for sale is appropriate to sell in the face of the beachgoers that would rather swim or sun bath.
The problem some are having with the occupancy of salesmen (vendors) on the beach is rooted in unregulated business activity. Since no rules were signed and agreed upon, leaving the non-accountable, the system will fail. To remain a vendor will mean keeping the code of ethics and passing inspection to be eligible in ‘the sellers’ zone’.
If there will be a demand for beach vendors in the future, plan the menu well. Support the few beach vendor that wants to make a living like that, selling quick bites or beachwear necessities and more to those in need.
Get rid of them all. Let the beach be a beach. Stop busing in cruisers.
Whilst I don’t like seeing the public beach that my kid enjoyed in tranquility as a child packed out with day trippers, this issue of violence by vendors has nothing to do with the cruisers – its to do with not enforcing the law because certain vested interests want it that way – but once you break the small laws on trading on public property, not having a TBL etc, you have an unregulated free for all where violence is the inevitable outcome. No real difference between this and turf wars for drugs or gambling, frankly, other than this is a little ore visible to the tourists and consequently more likely to have people like Mr dart have a word about the impact on HIS business.
So if I have a vendor on the beach, but I am not licensed to trade, nor do I have health insurance or pension, and that is my only source of income. Am I employed or unemployed?
3.6% unemployment my ass.
Let’s ask the government to define what the term “unemployed” means to them.
And no Jonny, being a drug dealer does not count as employment.
Next question, do I need to be licensed toby Cayman to be an AirBnB host?
Next question, do I need to be licensed toby Cayman to be an AirBnB host?
Yes. As an AirBnB host my place is inspected every year by the Tourism Department, Fire Department, and Public Health before the annual license is issued. I believe government now gets information from AirBnB on the money they collect from Cayman, and should be able to tell if you’re operating without a license or lying to government about how much you should be paying in tourist accommodation tax.
Hotels here have fire safety systems throughout. Does your unit have them? If so, why not?
Definite NO on Air B&B, VRBO or any other housing schemes that are driving up rental prices in direct competition with the hotels. The hotels are regulated and insured for guests. Short term rental owners have no oversight, whatsoever.
The homeowners renting their units out as “short term lodging” require no licensing and are not regulated. If their insurers knew what they were up to, those owners would be rightly penalized. If a renter is injured or killed due to non-compliance with hotel type regulations, there would and should be significant ramifications.
In fact, it would be logical for all insurers to ask this question and have the insured sign a legal document indicating if they were using their units as a business.
Haha! You think those owners have insurance? They have it for a year to get their mortgage & then let it lapse. The banks holding the mortgage never check its renewed. When a storm/hurricane hits they get help from government for repairs.
Insurance, hell they probably don’t have any proper business license to operate! Who cares as this is the Cayman Islands.
This is 100% incorrect.
They do require licenses. Whether they are renting illegally is another question and of course Cayman never enforces the law.
Not if your intitled and you know it.Cayman Islands have laws. Just like most places. They just don’t have a working law enforcment and we all know it.
Get rid of the beach vendors period. And constant police presence. I am born and raised here and have kids of my own who love the public beach park but what a shame that I am hesitant to even go there because of the shady things that take place right before my eyes. The ever present smell of weed, the loud music with profanities I could go on and on. Please fix this so my kids and I can freely go to public beach again without the YUCK.
Weed smokers have 1 or 2 a day, you sure it isn’t the cigarette smokers who puff 4 an hour?
It is the rampant disrespect for others that 1:09pm is really talking about. Play your music, but don’t splash it on others. Cook your food, have fun, play games, but be respectful of others’ spaces. Just like we used to do. It’s not so difficult.
The construction workers are getting high while on break. Next to the playground where my kids were playing. We left as that whole place is unsafe now.
First someone gets pepper sprayed by a vendor. Now there’s a stabbing. Wild West. You let people break the small laws with impunity and it’s a slippery slope.
Just shut all these vendors down and clean them off the beach; this is lazy politicians just wanting to appease a certain percentage of voters so they can get elected again. They could care less as to what goes on anywhere in Cayman as long as they can stay in power. That goes for the whole bunch of them; PACT, PPM or so called independents. Otherwise if they were so concerned they would be all over this nonsense.
Kenny B will get it all straitened out ASAP!
I look to the right of this blog and see photos on top of previous articles and four of them have five convicted criminals pictured. And all five say they are innocent.
What has Cayman come to?
Was it a tourist?
It’s insane that people accept this as a norm now.
A high noon stabbing on 7 mile Public Beach?
Spoiler alert, the witnesses are on a cruise ship headed toward another Caribbean paradise. Wonder, if these two had a vendors permit 🤣 Total Cayman Island Shit Show 🤡🤡🤡
And the witnesses talked about it on the cruise, on the next islands to all they met and to everyone when they got home.
Yup! I was like there on a carnival cruise when it happened!!! Scary!!!
You are right. I know nothing can stay unchanged, but the deterioration in Cayman over the 25 years we vacationed and then wintered here finally forced us out last year. So sorry for the loss of the Cayman we loved, and especially for all the wonderful people who don’t have the option to leave.
Yes, same here. It’s been 20+ years of back and forth seasonal stays. Owning a place just didn’t make sense anymore. Dealing with break-ins and destruction of property became the norm, let alone being made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. The old cayman was truly a special place, and Caymanian culture was traditionally peaceful…respectful.
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7:45 am. You sound like a nice person, please come to the Brac and enjoy life with us.
And mini Mac; self proclaimed King Kenny supports this garbage. The decent of Grand Cayman from gentle, mellow tourism destination to a satellite of Jamrock continues at pace. Would say wake up before it’s too late but this boulder is already rolling too fast. Heartbreaking.
Hey folks! Come to the beautiful Cayman Islands. Crystal clear waters. Fabulous beaches. Wonderful people. And watch imbeciles plunge each other right in front of your eyes. Why wouldn’t you?
And pay $$$$ to watch.
If an altercation among licensed vendors, then DCI and Kenny will know the name of suspect, as will all the other licensed vendors. Should have been in cuffs Wednesday afternoon.
Only allow the new hotel to serve and sell.
Security will be at their own expense.
Unreal. Get rid of them all!
Wow such horror it’s unbelievable especially on heavenly 7MB.
Due to this horror and trauma to vacationers I think the easy solution is to (1) have discreet HD cameras along 7MB tourist spots on various building rooftops (2) prohibit all vendors on the beach with a hefty fine and community service if breached (3) with the tens of millions of budget surplus every year the CIG can create road side garbage pickup jobs that these vendors can do instead to earn a living. They can wear a nifty environmentally friendly ninja turtle outfit while cleaning the streets. It further behooves me to say these noble turtles would receive mad street cred and beloved by the community. Cowabunka!
Unbelievable? Sadly not. Inevitable more like.
The gag is we already have CCTV in so many public spaces. However they never “seem to work”. Millions of dollars wasted yet again by our government.
We never used to have beach vendors and higglers. It was illegal. We never had any problems back then. Please can we ban them again…. completely.
Agree. Also, vendors should be required to stay in place and those interested in their wares come to them. These roving, pressuring vendors have to stop; it just puts off everyone, local and visitor alike.
to 5.34 Jackass.
Import third world. Become third world. Cheers Mac.
and Cocaine Kenny
My understanding is that the aggressor is Caymanian.
That’s what he said
It was a Caymanian who committed the crime though..
FFS PACT get your act together and do something. THIS is so embarrassing. Cayman used to have a high end cosmopolitan feel, but with crap like this we TRULY are becoming Jamaica… YUCK
These same people will be employed by Kenny and Saunders as their enforcers one day.
I weep for Cayman for allowing these people to be in leadership positions.
Where’s your Local Labor Kenny and Saunders?
Blame Kenny and Saunders.
Grand Cayman ramping up for its version of the ice cream wars, brilliant 🍦🙄
Just clear public beach, no vendors, no selling or loitering of anything. Have a police presence there everyday. Public Beach belongs to all of us.
No loitering on a beach?
All beaches belong to the people at large. There are too many property owners claiming the public areas as their own private beaches and no one is stopping them.
Exactly. Just as it used to be. Might even be able to find space for the family to enjoy the beach once more with all the rows of beach chairs gone.
Yeah, when I was a boy, we sat on a towel, and we liked it that way! 😀 Later on, those that wanted to sit or lounge, packed their own chairs. After that, the higglers arrived to rent chairs to day-visitors. I really don’t have a problem with that, as long as the chairs are off the beach, awaiting use.
Having chairs taking up space all lined up and you can’t use that space without renting the chair…….. that brings out the fugly in me. I will NEVER rent a chair under such circumstances. Visitors shouldn’t be subjected to such shenanigans.
Amen. Which government agency is tasked with enforcement of public beaches and/or paths? And, why are they not doing so?