Daylight armed robbery takes place near airport
(CNS): Police are investigating the fourth armed robbery this week in George Town after two masked men, one armed with a gun, held up at a loan business along Roberts Drive, the road heading into the airport. The stick-up happened in broad daylight at 10:55 Thursday morning, when the culprits, dressed in construction-type clothing, entered the premises and demanded cash.
Police confirmed an undisclosed quantity of cash was stolen but no injuries were reported before the suspects fled. “It is suspected that they then left in a vehicle,” police said.
Over the last week, there have been several robberies in the capital. Two men were mugged in separate incidents in the same street in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a man with a gun. On Tuesday night a masked robber fired his weapon into the air as he held up a gas station on Dorcy Drive before fleeing on a motorcycle with another man.
The police said they are currently investigating all of these incidents and detectives are appealing to anyone with information 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 via the website. Tips can also be submitted anonymously via the Miami-based call centre of Crime Stoppers at 800-8477(TIPS) or online.
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Daylight robbery ? Thought the article was about airport taxi services…
It goes without saying that all Jamaicans aren’t bad people, but I’ll say it anyway. All Jamaicans aren’t bad people. Now, that said, a lot of Jamaican men come here with a mentality and a mindset that was developed in parts of Jamaica that are impoverished and violent. They come here with that mentality and use it to take advantage of whoever they can, in order to not have to go back to Jamaica. One way that they accomplish this, is by seducing Caymanian girls and women and getting them pregnant, thereby creating an unbreakable bond between themselves and Cayman. They see it as a road to staying in Cayman forever. Many of them have no intention of becoming a real father to these children or developing a family with the mothers, which leads to more single parent Caymanian families, more underprivileged Caymanian children, and a segment of Caymanian society that is totally dependent on a ballooning welfare system that was virtually nonexistent 20 years ago.
Unfortunately, Caymanian women keep falling for these Jamaican men that are intent on impregnating their way into Cayman. Now I know many people reading this will call BS, put many more of us know that this is true and has been happening here for decades. Caymanian women need to stop falling for these guys and start wanting better for themselves, rather than the endless pattern of becoming baby mamas for guys that have no potential to help them build a successful life.
Much Respect for stating this @ 9.45 am. Think it was bob Marley that stated “The Truth might be an offense, but not sin”.
If the islands need workers like Jamaicans, better Philippinos. Harder workers and less violent.
Trading one set of problems for another to be honest.
What problems? High rates of violence, drug use, confusing paternity arrangements, terrible driving standards? What problems?
The Islands do not “need” foreign workers.
You obviously don’t own or operate a business in Cayman.
LMAO!!!! Thanks, I needed a bit of comedy this morning.
Why don’t we have the death penalty for anyone carrying an illegal firearm? There would be no repeat offenders.
And it might even save your life.
Welp, there it is. The stupidest post of the year.
Get rid of the Jamaicans criminals and crime will drop by 80 %
Actually, 76%, but close enough.
In Honduras there are at least three guards at a gas station all armed with 12 gauge shotguns.
Two of Cayman’s historic and current imported demographics are Honduras and Jamaica. Two of the most violent countries on earth. There is a subset of violent criminal Caymanians who have this DNA or have adopted the culture.
At the same time, Cayman has chosen to place law enforcement, judicial administration and education in the hands of Jamaicans.
It’s as if official CIG policy is for Cayman to become Jamaica. With a touch of Honduras thrown in.
Caymanians seem blind to the danger. Please wake up. It is almost too late.
And despite what the Police say, the lack of trust of the Police from within the community is very high. The lack of crimes reported in some instances are not a result of their work, its a lack of trust to report!
Well said and spot on. Caymanians are seen as pushovers and more and more young Caymanians no longer see a future here as other countries are fighting take over.
If that isn’t a wake up call to take a stand for young Caymanians, keep sleeping. You just won’t see the downfall.
I suspect young Caymanians are leaving to live abroad for multiple reasons – better education, more tolerant attitudes, less corruption,the chance to gain meaningful employment and purchase a property big enough to raise a family. The list could go on. At the same time the expanding gap between rich and poor, with an ever shrinking middle class continues at pace. The rich minority of locals and overseas investors need cheap labour to fulfill all the menial tasks that are beneath them. Sadly I don’t see this situation changing in the near future and I can fully understand why educated young Caymanians, who are not part of the political cabal here, would want out.
Jamaica is nowhere near one of the most violent countries in the world. Honduras is close but just outside that company.
Haiti would be one of the most violent countries globally, I don’t know if you’re confused.
When the disparity between haves and have nots widens, desperate people choose desperate measures. I am in no way saying what they did was right by any means, it was not.. There has to be a come to Jesus moment with the Gov’t to help those less fortunate, not put them further behind. Regardless of race, nationality.
I do not think any of us should stand by and watch our limited resources deployed to support foreign nationals here, especially on an ongoing basis. That is a substantial part of what has got us in this mess!
Limited resources, like those resources, that have MP’s flying over to sister Islands for a weekend Holiday?? Or obscene pays for gov’t employees who do their jobs when they choose to?? For one of the most expensive places to live in the World, your Limited resources explanation sounds a bit like hype..
Would think some of the robbed places might have been scouted first by the perps
Any big construction contracts coming to an end? Few robberies here and there and then offski.
Jamacians.
Just like Margaritaville 10 years ago.
Come by boat, rob them and go back
Govt. Should stop giving work permits to Jamaicans they are the worse ones.facts are facts.
Not just work permits. The civil service is importing Jamaicans and their family members at levels that would be unlawful in any private sector employer if the demographic balance required by the Immigration Act were applied to the relevant workplaces.
Hopefully the public now understands where the incompetency in CIG is coming from.
JAM government is just as corrupt. Any Jamaican can tell you that.
Just consider this. No Jamaicans means no one fixing your car, building your house, digging your yard, driving the cesspool truck, doing your laundry, cleaning your house, and washing your kids. So are the entitled going to roll up their sleeves and do this work instead ? Dream on.
As a Caymanian, I am more than willing to do these jobs if I was actually offered one.
The problem is not Caymanian entitlement, it is Jamaican entitlement.
Jamaicans can always go back home and get jobs, regardless if they choose to do so or not. That is on them, not us.
Just a few people to mention-
George Seymour – One of the first Caymanians to manage his own garage and rental/Car Sales. Circa 1970’s. David and Steve Foster stated Avis rent a car during the same period.
Numerous Caymanian seaman returned home from National Bulk and other carriers around the 1960s and onwards, to homes built from remittances sent to their wives who supervised the construction of the family home and helped out where needed. Or built the homes themselves, assisted by other Caymanians, with new skills they learned whilst serving on ships at sea.
Four industry-leading Septic and Deep Well drilling companies were started by Caymanians from scratch. ISE, Professional Well Drilling, Watler and Hislop, and recently Entech. Many Caymanians were and are employed by the Department of Environmental Health, in various capacities. And yeah, they also are the ones who pick up all of our garbage.
Although less common today, many Caymanian women, especially those of Afro origin were hired as domestics in the households of most prominent Caymanian families. Many Caymanian women were also recruited to work in households of American families, around the East coast of the United States.
These hardworking Caymanians built companies and primary values that developed the infrastructure that all of us have grown to enjoy today, including new entrants to the community. They hired people from overseas and locally who grew and developed with the economy. Most Caymanians have no problem admitting that we evolved from very humble and austere beginnings.
For those Foreigners that believe the History of the Cayman Islands only started when they arrived, it would be mutually beneficial to all, to scrap that attitude and replace it with a more gracious, holistic one. The Islands could use a paradigm shift at this point.
Meanwhile, we have another traffic unit to give tint tickets.
If only they were giving tint tickets. Or speeding, dangerous driving or DUI – something. How any half way competent or enthusiastic police unit cannot issue hundreds of tickets in a day given the wholesale breaches of the law that everyone of us see every day on our roads is entirely a mystery. WTF do they actually do all day?
So? Get rid of your tint. Two different departments anyway.
Me thinks it is high time to start considering relocation, Cayman was for a period a safe haven , but it certainly is going down the drain as fast as it possibly can.
Armed robberies spiking like this seems to trend quickly even in high traffic, high density areas. I guess that the island will quickly turn into micro Jamaica and our dear governor will be more than happy to propose Cayman its complete autonomy from the crown (which will cause the financial services industry to pack up quicker than our dear John John can mount a donkey ).
8.29 that is exactly what Saunders,jonjon,Mac and Kenneth want, so they can have unfettered access to the country’s cash register…
What they don’t realise is that the financial industry will leave, investment will dry up, and they will then have to sell their souls, and Cayman , to the Chinese who will come bearing gifts.
Caymanian here, I’m thinking the exact same thing. But at least Jamaica can feed itself. I’ve already started the process of leaving this hell hole.
Jamaica only feeds itself because of remittances from some of those that have left. Easier to feed yourself when MOST of your population have fled overseas.
Why should we fund this trainwreck if they are planning to go autonomous in August?
They don’t need England, but they need us? Make them find their way elsewhere. They are never satisfied.
The financial services industry would prefer an autonomous Cayman that is active in following international regulation than having to wait for Nanny England to play catch-up…
I don’t disagree with much of your opinion, however, I wish you good luck finding another tropical island that is even as safe.
I don’t think we are stupid enough to ever seriously consider going independent. I hope we aren’t.
About time we had a proper CCTV network covering all the major roads.
Like the one we paid for?
Not to be purchased from the same company that supplied the useless ones before.
Eric has gone quiet. Is he busy brokering the new deal?
What is a “proper” CCTV network? How many are in use on Grand?
I guess the RCIP will seize some more licensed firearms because men in work suits must have registered guns to do this work. No criminal would ever do these things.
HCMI can you please include incidents like this in your text message warning system, to keep people away from these areas during critical times. Yesterday I drove within feet of a heavily armed police officer which told me an armed criminal wasn’t too far away. Please institute a warning system to tell people to stay in their homes/places of work and off the streets within a certain perimeter. Otherwise the next headline may be about an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire.
That’s not a HMCI job… Literally wasting resources on that.
6:28 am Your comment is anything but helpful. If not HCMI, then who? Perhaps RCIPS should implement such a warning system. It’s done elsewhere and very effective.
Were they wearing a hard hats and high-vis vests? Shouldn’t be too hard to spot then.
Every time RCIPS bows to all the moaners and targets resources at motorists the gun crime kicks off. Funny that.
Well, you are more likely to be killed/injured in a motor vehicle accident in Cayman than a gun crime (gang members excepted), so I am fine with resources targeting out of control drivers.
How about they enforce the traffic laws AND everything else? Pull over a car – search it! Find drugs. Stolen property. Guns.
Don’t pull people over, don’t find anything.
Get it?
Maybe they are trying to get money together to fix the terrible knock knees of the person that is dressed as a construction worker. I know you criminals are reading this. By the way how you stand and your lanky built, it shouldn’t be that hard for you to find. #stayhomeknockknees
In Florida, every business has high resolution security cameras and the images released the same day a crime is committed.
No comments as at noon. Which meme will be first – it’s all due to Jamaicans or it’s what happens when young Caymanian men are denied jobs because of discrimination or unfair competition from expats? Waging my money on the first one.
Well that is, statistically the most likely reason, isn’t it? (If we bothered to keep accurate statistics on anything that actually mattered).
The traumatized woman and only victim did say the assailants spoke with a Jamaican accent though… So what is your point and who are you trying to bait?
Your right it was Spanish doofus.
Nice try, the video clearly depicts two Jamaicans.
It’s the Jamaicans you know it, I know it, we all know it. If it’s not them in person, it’s their culture.
3rd world island bringing their 3rd world mentality to this one.
Simply has no place in Cayman.
We all are paying the price in more ways than one. Tolerance is being viewed as condoning the behaviour and we are being dragged down as a country because of it.
Send this foolishness back from which it came, it has never been congruent with the standards and customs of the Cayman Islands.
“If it’s not them in person, it’s their culture.”
You really think if there was no such thing as Jamaican culture then there would be no robberies in Cayman?
Definitely a lot less crime.
The very reason why someone from Jamaica told me they came to Cayman is because of the high levels of robberies, murders, and crime in Jamaica.
Definitely have a lot less.
The very reason why Jamaicans are flooding into Cayman is because of the high levels of robberies, murders, and crime in Jamaica.
Many of their criminals also come here to run away from Jamaican authorities, only to start their second chance to do the same here and run from RCIPS.
The tradition of laying blame at the feet of anyone not Caymanian lives on.
And if you had been here for more than 25 years you would see that the blame is usually well directed.
Who is to blame for the development of the luxury buildings?
Who sold the land?
Who made the policies allowing it?
Canadians. But you are off topic.
The truth is simply the truth, regardless of whoever doesn’t like it.
Price of crack must have gone up as much as fuel.