Evans family gets $1.2M for claim over mother’s death
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has given the Evans family CI$1.226 million to settle a claim made in the years following the tragic disappearance of Anna Evans, who was last seen around lunchtime on 26 January 2011 working at the George Town landfill.
The family began pursuing a legal claim against the Department of Environmental Health in 2017, though what happened to the dump worker has never been established. However, she was declared legally dead in 2020, enabling the legal case to move ahead.
According to a recently released summary of the last Cabinet meeting before the elections, the five remaining government ministers approved the financial settlement to the family.
Cabinet created a new executive appropriation under the Ministry of Sustainability, which holds the DEH portfolio. Under the Public Management and Finance Act, the government took the money from the health ministry’s policy advice budget.
It’s not clear what the legal case had established about Evans’ disappearance and apparent subsequent death, as most of the discussions have been behind closed doors. But CNS understand that the original legal advice to the government was that it couldn’t be held responsible for Evans’ death as her fate remains unknown.
Nevertheless, the government has helped support the family over the years, as she had five children, three of whom were still young at the time. It is understood that the CIG provided a home for them after Anne’s sister, Noreen Dixon, took on the responsibility for caring for her nieces and nephews, who are now all adults.
What happened to Evans, who was just 37 when she disappeared, remains a mystery. Some of her friends and family had suggested her estranged husband, who was assaulted shortly after she disappeared, could have been responsible, but neither he nor any other suspects were ever arrested in connection with the investigation.
Some thought that she could have been crushed at the landfill as a result of an accident, but none of her co-workers have ever come forward to confirm that theory either.
Several years after she disappeared, John Jones, an RCIPS chief superintendent at the time, expressed his belief that Evans met with an accident at the dump, where she could have been crushed by a compactor without the driver knowing, and her body was still somewhere in the landfill.
However, trained sniffer dogs were brought from overseas and deployed during the extensive search for Evans at the landfill, but there has never been any trace of her.
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I am sure they would prefer Anna versus the money … have a heart!
geeee if only we had some kind of… Occupational Safety and Health Administration
we could call it… OSHA and they could have the authority to and powers to protect workers from unsafe practices and punish employers who put their workers in harms way, and they could conduct safety training and emergency response training and… who am I kidding.
Talk to Jon-Jon and see if he will get that one going for you.
OHSA type entity is a joke. Ask anyone who has such a system in place. Lofty ideas never come to fruition in real life.
Absolute rubbish, OSHA or HSE in UK are both sensible institutions that protect millions of workers each year.
OSHA in the U.S. works. Their counterpart in the UK — HSE WORKS. No need to recreate the wheel, but we desperately need this legislation to protect workers.
Another woman murdered with no one being held accountable for her death terrible injustice to this woman and her children and family the POLICE and their investigative racket and corruption EVA EBANKs KERRAN BAKER and ANNA EBANKS even with EVA’s body and dying statements they couldn’t solve it DPP needs to be closed and every single one of these earning money from the Cayman Islands government should be fired. No Use B@#$%&D$ Where is the so called Cold case Squad Cayman???? Yet we have one those Lodge minions who’s watch this happen under now trying to get elected can you imagine Cayman.
Bittersweet for her family. RIP
Not bittersweet. They just got paid.
Until 10 yrs worth of legal fees is deducted…
Contemptable comment.
I’m glad the government made this payment, even in light of there being no solid proof. It was the right thing to do. You sound like you think they’re going to now live high on the hog. They will likely still be picking up the pieces of their broken lives, and now have some scratch to help them move on. They didn’t benefit, you [expletive].