Suspect flees after chopping man in Camana Bay
(CNS): The RCIPS has reported three violent incidents over the weekend. A man was chopped with a machete during a fight on Market Street in Camana Bay, George Town, around 7:40pm on Saturday night. The police were told that the men, who were known to each other, engaged in an altercation, during which one of them was badly wounded. He was given first aid by a security guard and police officers before being taken to hospital by ambulance and treated for serious but non-life-threatening injuries and discharged.
The other person involved in the violent brawl fled the scene before police arrived. However, a machete believed to have been used to carry out the assault was located and recovered as evidence. No other injuries were reported to the police at the time of the incident.
In addition to the incident at Camana Bay (as previously reported on CNS), a man was attacked and mugged in downtown George Town early Sunday morning. On Saturday morning, a man turned up at the hospital with multiple lacerations and life-threatening injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses who can assist in their investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the George Town Police Station at 949-4222. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or the website. Tips can also be submitted anonymously to caymancrimestoppers.com or by downloading the Cayman Crime Stoppers app.
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Camana bay was one of the last safest places to go with your kids and wife / girlfriend/ chill eat food / coffee. now this is going too?
We were evicted from Camana Bay for meeting at 3.30am to go for a run. Yet butchering someone is allowed? Woeful place.
Why in the world would you say it “is allowed.” Don’t gaslight a sad event for your personal grievance.
Pretty sure there are other times one could go for a run at Camana Bay?
Most of the population are asleep at 3:30am but for emergency services, drunk drivers, addicts, burglars and robbers……it would probably be DARTS fault if you were mugged doing your 3:30am run too right?
great, no maybe daddy dart will take the issue of crime out of CIG’s hands.
Not the best result, but CIG is completely unable to govern, so yes… I’ll take any efforts from anyone to control crime.
Direct rule is the only answer.
Direct rule by who?
and what about that damned chopper you hear at just after sunrise carrying its owner and mountain bikes all across the place.
No more bothersome than the PM music and AM Roosters from my neighbor’s house. I’ll take 5 minutes of the chopper than 2 hrs of noise. Sheesh, the lack of logic is stunning.
We had this discussion after the football match shooting. XXXX
CNS: The idea of corporal and capital punishment as judicial punishments in the Cayman Islands is moot. The chance that either will be allowed is precisely zero unless we go independent of the UK, and long boring discussions on the matter are utterly pointless. Capital punishment is barbaric and modern democracies have moved on.
Both CNS and the commentator suggesting that corporal/capital punishment would work, are correct. They would work, but London would never allow them. Crime therefore is only going up.
Last time this happened, about a decade ago, the gangsters killed each other off. This seems qualitatively different, as they’re attacking each other outwith the usual underclass areas.
Look on the bright side, though: more work for private security and construction workers, as expats pay for patrols and gated communities to be built!
The probability that this perpetrator will be arrested let along charged let alone convicted is minimal.
On top of that we are far too lenient with the small percentage of violent criminals that are ever convicted. I know that locking up violent criminals is not the entire solution but at least those in prison are less likely to be attacking law abiding citizens on any given day.
Some of us go shopping in Camana Bay – others go chopping.
I know that wearing Kevlar for personal protection is illegal. Perhaps it is time to amend that law so that people can feel safer taking their children to buy ice cream or to the cinema in Camana Bay.
If you can’t go to Camana Bay and be safe where can you go????? SMH
Home. Netflix and chill.
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Nobody beat us
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We’re what the land folks love to cook
Under the sea we’re off the hook
We got no troubles life is the bubbles
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Home in my backyard with a fat spliff of ganja, my dogs, and netflix on my phone. I don’t go clubbing anymore and try to avoid liquor.
Just looking at the recent work permit statistics released this week. Very disappointed, and made me think of countries that do lots of chopping.
Camana Bay needs to scrap or retrain all the security guard cross walk supervisors that (a) can’t prevent taxis and loiterings cars from stopping and blocking the shared use pedestrian and traffic lanes (b) can’t get out of the traffic lane themselves (c) fail to make drivers heed the existing stop signs (d) locate and remove people carrying machetes at dinner time on a Saturday night. Disappointing, but not surprising. NB: DART is responsible for ALL security and failures on their land. Hope the victim gets better and sues.
Security there is useless. They need to be retrained.
Those foreigners in uniform acting as security guards will be the first to run at the sight of trouble.
Whereas hundreds of “brave” Caymanians at a soccer games and nightclubs can’t even ID the shooters, and CCTV is wiped.
You would too at less than $6/hr!
I’ll run too if I only have a flashlight and a Radio (nothing to defend myself), and barely making 6.00 an hour.
Truly the Singapore of the Caribbean
I got told off for driving around a car parked beside one of the zebra crossings! Needless to say, the driver of the parked car was not told off … SMH.
You’ve made a lot of that up, Bobo.
In which parallel universe do you live? Hard working security guards are now to deal with the machete wielding maniacs. What a silly person you are.
They’re only trained to harass people over parking.
don’t park like a dick
Damn choppers!
Public safety in GT is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from Tivoli and other areas of downtown Kingston
Lmao you’ve clearly never been to either of those locations if you typed that with a straight face.
We have politicians who would love to turn Cayman’s communities into Jamaican style garrisons and they are working to make that happen. In recent years they have encouraged more and more Kingston inner city residents to buy work permits for non-existent jobs in Cayman and to bring their social values and life style with them. So I agree that Cayman becomes more like Tivoli every year.
As long as we keep importing people from places where chopping people with machetes is considered normal things will just get worse and worse
The only people signing off on these permit applications are Caymanians.
Next up – gun fights between machine gun toting thugs in the line for cinema tickets.
Sorry to spoil the fun, but there’s an app for that.
Uncle Dart brings them in to work on his construction projects. Now they’re chopping each other up in the streets of his exclusive neighborhood. Da wha ya get.
Where and who were the witnesses to this horrible assault and what about the security and CCTV at Camana Bay? Maybe a description and nationality(s)would be of help.
caymanians and their feral children should boycott camana bay.
C’Bay is now a cesspool
our only hope is a boycott by caymanians
And to think Dart labels himself as a “Conservationist” As a Caymanian, I would’ve loved for the immediate area where Camana Bay now stands to remain the peaceful, virgin, pristine wildlife habitat, mangrove wetlands it was before the depreciating concrete jungle was built. If money is no problem, why didn’t they just hand him over the GT Business district to redevelop? Even with owning a nursery and bottomless pockets, it can’t stop Camana Bay from now looking worse for wear…
Dart has never styled themselves as conservationists. They are literally vulture capitalist exploiters.
Landbanking capital via hundreds of nominee names is not conservation, it’s hiding money. Is it even Dart’s? Who checks?
Camana Bay is fantastic, and George Town is a sh#thole. Perhaps that’s why?
Further, GT is controlled by CIG and the “World Class Civil Service©”, so it’s never going to get any better. In fact, give the corrupt MLAs half a chance and they’ll make it worse with a cruise pier and more bottom-feeding tourists (who, The recent report helpfully confirmed, are near worthless).
This is not news until Tuesday? What about the kid with a gun at a school? Any report on that yet?
What kid?? Which school???
Wow this is shocking to imagine being at tranquil Camana Bay and witnessing this machete attack! Government needs to stop pussyfooting around this problem of increased crime in Cayman. No excuses with their millions of dollars every quarter in budget surplus. What other countries in the world have that wealth to easy wipeout crime.
those budget surpluses are just illusions my friend. Govt. accountants are Enron level chefs the way they cook the books.
Oh please 🙄 Cayman is flushed with cash because of the financial sector. Cheesy comparison to Enron. Public safety should be the priority for Government funding instead of more construction development on island.
Cayman is flush with cash because CIG, despite the enormous revenues from the financial services sector, has borrowed hundreds of millions and deferred paying down or providing for future liabilities like public sector health care. Stopping spending money likes its water should be the priority for government spending – RCIPS already has a budget that would gag a goat, and over 400 staff, 2 helicopters and a firearms unit. Spending yet more money on public safety – just get RCIPS to do their job.
Well then the magical words “you’re fired” should be applied and quality replacements put in place
Happy we left Cayman, didn’t feel safe a few years ago, but now it’s far too dangerous.
And in what crimefree utopia are you living now?
Channel Islands
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/07/sarks-top-police-officer-says-channel-island-awash-with-criminals
And that’s just Sark, imagine Guernsey, Jersey and Alderley! Brecqhou is safe due to the Barclay brothers buying the whole island for their private estate.
Most small islands states face similar problems concerning a rise in crime and antisocial behavior in line with a increase in population (Mainly Economic Migrants), over zealous development, and the absence of political will power to rectify the problems, just like the Cayman Islands. Trying to compare one former safe haven against the next won’t solve the problem for anyone..
Touche 9;04. A while since I have seen reports of machete choppings in the Channel Islands, or gunfire at football matches.
Aye but it’s full of English. I’d take ma chances with the odd machete swinger 😂
AND yet here you are trolling CNS
So?