More ganja arrests made on Seven Mile Beach
(CNS): Police arrested a 19 year old man from East end and a 20 year old woman from Bodden Town on Boxing Day afternoon for various drug offences after officers on foot patrol along the north end of Seven Mile Public Beach detected a strong scent of ganja coming from a group of individuals. Police said searches were conducted under the Misuse of Drugs Act and an undisclosed quantity of ganja were recovered from the couple.
The man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon after officers found a knife on his person however there was no indication of any violence having taken place. More ganja however was also found by officers in the car of on of those arrested along with drug related paraphernalia. The two people have since been granted bail as investigations continue.
The RCIPS said it remains committed to maintaining the safety and security of public spaces and encourages anyone with information on illegal activities to call 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 the Cayman Crime Stoppers website.
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I walk public beach daily early in the morning
You can smell ganja even during the day when all the tourists are there. It’s a terrible look for cayman and the public beach area is a disgrace.
What are the elected politicians doing about it ? Especially Andre Ebanks isn’t this your constituency.
The RCIP likewise ( only act when it hits the press )
You can make an arrest daily ( a couple of PC’s dressed as tourists , it’s not rocket science )
Or shall we put all our resources into catching a tourist with a bullet or sniff fragment in a vape ?
Policing and arresting criminals on public beach is the easiest arrest in the history on mankind
Please clean up the beach
Please take the sniffer dogs to the fish market. That smell ain’t Snapper.
I went for an early walk this morning (31/12/2024) around the SMB public beach area while “vendors” were setting up for the cruise tourists. Next to one “stall” was the cardboard from about 5 cases of CayBrew. We asked the lady at the stall if they sold beer. She said “Yes, during the day”. Then I asked if she had a license and she shook her head. I figure that “stall” is not alone.
Unless the laws are enforced we will continue to descend into more illegal activities. This infringement was in open sight.
Bad news travels faster than light and many cruise tourists and overnight guests are avid influencers and reviewers of their experiences.
The public beaches have now become as bad the roads and yet, not a damned thing is done to curb it.
The public beach lice of other destinations, but without any luxury resort compounds with secured boundaries. Keeping tourists surrounded by fences and concertina wire might cut down on some of the traffic. So, there’s that to look forward to.
Elect and promote drug dealers, da wha ya get.
Fake Caymanian chimes in again.
Writing in dialect is jokey.
Says the born Jamaican
Kenny apologist chimes in again.
When the initial complaints were received about the nefarious activities at the public it should have been nipped in the bud but alas nothing was done about situation those in control listen their Jamaican bosses who were slowly but surely asserting their influence and control over the public beach to what it is today and then they tried to expand this situation right down to the Governor beach. This terrible situation has now spread to Smith cove / Bacadere and to Spotts beach and to Bodden Town beach now right up to Rum Point & Starfish point where their drug & liquor and criminal activity has spread like a virus. No surprise Cayman when you import criminals into your island you get criminal activity and terrible outcomes a fact some here were well aware of and are doing absolutely nothing about either.
Mac Kenneth Seymour and Saunders depend on their votes, so don’t hold your breath waiting for government to enforce any clean up.
There is, there was, there will be the only one thing of value -The Seven Mile Beach. Or whatever is left of it. Absolutely nothing else matters.
I wonder where they’re from? Any ideas?
Bodden Town or West Bay, take your pick.
Who? The police? Or the bad guys? all two of them probably the same.
Police were there hourly thru the holidays.
Yes, strolling around in full-uniformed cluster formation, but doing very little…they need plain-clothes undercover cops making arrests.
Well then, this should make things easier when I visit next, thanks for the tip!!!
It has been said by many before. No vendors should be allowed to operate on Public Beaches! These sorts of incident have a habit of “snow balling”! What must visitors to our Island think.
Totally agree Mr. Cumber, but we seem to have surpassed being snowballed. I think we’re now 8-balled.
Imagine how many enforcement personnel we could afford if we collected all outstanding apron fees.
Cayman’s reputation is dropping into the trench and has been for the last 10-15 years+. I don’t recommend any of my visiting family to stray off property, rent a car, and walk on the beach after nightfall – – – all activities I did from 1984 – 2015. Cayman’s leadership is so out-classed, out-educated, out brain-celled. CIG has no clue how to lead this territory. But it all starts with who is elected as Ministers, and we can see the results of our superior informed electorate.
If you think the Public Beach is bad, just wait and see how Scranton Park turns out. Kenny’s Crown Jewel.
At least it will be a place for them to keep to themselves and away from SMB.
When you elect a tourism minister with a ghetto mentality expect the tourism product to become ghetto.
Let me say it for the 100th time. Clear Public Beach! No vendors, no chairs, no huts, give it back to the people. Andre, you are my WB South MP and I support you but something drastic needs to be done to restore this space to the people and families of Cayman. I no longer take my family or visitors to Public Beach.
If possession of weed is legalized, without a locally sanctioned industry that meets both specific market demand and safety criteria, then what we are really voting for is the legalization of the smuggling economy, guns, ammo, violent killers, and associated money laundering, the third pillar of the Cayman Islands. In doing so, we give permission for the FATF, OECD and others to sanction the territory as criminalized. Everyone who lights up a spliff, or snorts a line, is a complicit participant in that world, and all the death and misery that comes with it.
Exactly!
As big as Florida is, their Police Association, citizens and families just VOTED NO, on Ganja Decriminalization!
Weed Kills Brains.
Ask Elton John
Which of your family members sell locally?
I obviously can’t call any names, but when I was a teen I used to buy ganja regularly from a politician’s brother. Everyone knows he sells it up to this day. But somehow, in such a small community, he’s never been arrested for even consumption.
I know you were throwing a jab, but it’s the reality of the situation. Smuggled ganja nets you an easy 10x return on investment and almost everyone that consumes alcohol also smokes it like tobacco. Legalizing local production of the medicine would kill that black market monopoly.
So you’re implying that since we legalized alcohol, it has been impossible to source legal, traceable and taxed product both internationally and produced locally in businesses such as a brewery?
Every time the topic comes up you cry about legitimizing the jamaican ganja boats and that’s exactly the opposite that will happen. I’ll no longer buy jamaican herb if I can buy a vape from reflections I otherwise would get from my doctor.
It’s medically prescribed and you can’t overdose on it. Come off the 1960s reefer madness propaganda please.
The business of smuggling, which is a broad unofficial active industry in Cayman, doesn’t go away with legalization. It gets an official golden “Coast Guard” free pass, where we are then overrun with cheaper and more dangerous drugs, guns, ammo, and sicarios. Any dispensaries, users, and marginalized neighbourhoods, would remain on the loosing side of that exchange. The proof is that Cayman’s authorities already fail to capably supervise anything. Not a single known gang leader arrest in a couple decades…
well done Kenny
Just back from a week holiday where I spent a lot of time on public beach. I never saw more police officers on the beach in all my travels. Police were also seen many times on the roadway.
Assume your holiday was not in Grand Cayman
Behave.