Robbery toll climbs to eight over last two weeks
(CNS): The police have added another two robbery investigations to their current list of stick-ups and muggings across Grand Cayman, with eight happening since the beginning of this month and a dozen since the end of September, most of which have involved guns and other weapons. There were two robberies on Friday evening at George Town grocery stores, including one where the storekeeper was assaulted and an attempted robbery in the street of a food delivery driver.
Despite the serious crime spike, there has still been no comment from police management about increasing patrols or work being done to stem the use of guns.
In this latest batch of three violent crimes, the first took place at Uncle Clem’s Grocery Store located on Mary Street. At around 7:45pm someone broke the glass doors, sending the people inside the shop running for the back door. One person was slightly injured as they escaped the robbers, who were armed with a machete and an axe. The two men, wearing masks and hoodies, entered through the smashed door and stole money from the cash register then fled the scene in an unknown direction.
Around five minutes later, in Diaz Lane, close to the store, a delivery driver was leaving the area after making a delivery when someone banged on his car window. The driver saw two masked men, one carrying an axe who began banging on his vehicle with that axe. As a result, he sped off from the location and escaped uninjured with nothing taken, though the car was damaged.
At around 8:20pm two men wearing dark-coloured clothing and hoodies entered the Asian Retailer store located on Shedden Road brandishing a firearm. The robbers demanded money and assaulted the storekeeper before making off with an undisclosed quantity of cash in an unknown direction.
All three incidents are being investigated by the RCIPS and detectives are encouraging 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 the website.
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I am so glad the owning of guns is illegal in Cayman, no if only the criminals on the island would respect the laws we would be in good shape.
sadly, too many here think this will be solved with harsh punishments and even more militarised policing, but study after study, country after country, that has failed.
the real problem is rising poverty and inequality. too many here struggling to the point of desperation, with not enough education or opportunity to work their way out of it.
Poverty leads to desperation, inequality leads to opportunity for easy crime.
When you are desperate or without hope, you have little to lose and little to fear from the law.
11:47 am, Singapore has very hard hash laws against criminals and Singapore has one of the lowest crime rate for per Population in the world. facts.
Admittedly I have no inside information but people, something isn’t right..our land is tiny..our money is bountiful…and we have crime? It’s as if some want this crime.
There’s no other explanation – it is easy easy easy for a government to stop crime here, we are so small a land and few a people
Something isn’t right
it feels like the quality of life in general across the Cayman Islands had decreased noticeably in recent months.
there are too many people here, leading to some now living in shipping containers. services are under huge stress and it becoming near impossible for the average person the buy a house.
way too many illegal guns on island. if you think the gun crimes reported in the media is a true picture of what is happening on the street than you’re massively mistaken sadly.
the natural beauty of the islands has reached a tipping point where there will soon be none left. consider; development of the mangroves out East, the beach disappearing at 7 mile, Mount trashmore no resolution in sight, even the removal of glass recycling now leading to an expanding bottle cemetery in the car park at camana bay.
the government are letting all this happen before our eyes. this is on Wayne’s watch but what has he and his clown car actually done to address any of this issues for the long term. I respectfully say the sum total of #@&% all.
In Singapore, drugs and guns and crime generally is met with very harsh punishment. It works.
Here we have civilized laws and human rights lawyers that pander to the criminals.
Jamaicans love us because they can and do get away with murder and robberies in Cayman.
Have harsher punishment
Stop Jamaicans.
Crime reduced.
the quality of life in general across the WORLD had decreased noticeably in recent years.
yes but we have the financial means to actually do something about it here. the true scale of the waste in cig is obscene.
Strawberries in supermarket tonight 13 ci yet another robbery
I’d say vote with your feet but it’s a worse cartel than La mafia de los taxis.
hmmm.. what about the cuban migrants that are here on our streets? I thought the government had them housed in one place.
The goverment does not tell the truth at times.
My family is coming on a trip down very soon. Reading about all these burglaries. Always felt safe in Cayman, but now questioning our decision. Too late to cancel without penalties. Where should we avoid? Should we not go out after dark?
don’t go to secluded places or walk at night and you’ll be fine. On the other hand it doesn’t guarantee that your dinner at a restaurant won’t be “interrupted” – don’t bring anything valuable with you, but a wallet with few dollars you can give them.
You’re being a scaremonger. The restaurants which cater to tourists are not being robbed.
There have been a few places where tourists could be, but mostly smaller convenient store locations. It would be a good idea not to walk late at night alone and not to carry a lot of money
Are we not tired of watching our lives slowly erode in quality? Are we not tired of taking measures we didn’t have to take 4 years ago? Does the world evolve, yes but this is all preventable.
Why can’t Caymanians see and understand that the root of problems with crime is caused mainly by Jamaicans ? Stop employing them on work permits. Stop Employing them as Policemen ETC.. Make it harder for them to come to Cayman by
having more better checks in place. Make harder hash laws against the Canoe people coming. Get people from other Countries to work here. ASAP.
Wow- Cayman has gotten THAT bad?
Don’t go to secluded places, dont flash expensive jewelry/devices and you’ll be fine. Do come and enjoy your holiday!
Just like Jamaica and a few of there s**tholes in the Caribbean I know of.
ZERO sympathy for Cayman with this spike in crime. Annual surplus budget of tens of millions = more than enough to hire more police officers, HD surveillance cameras throughout the island installed and set by people in the United States and raising the prison sentences to 10+ years minimum with no early parole for armed robberies. BUT Government chooses to spend on other projects instead.
there were an article few years ago about organized crime in Cayman…the info came from an insider(s)…how it works and why it would always exist…and why nobody would ever talk, for too many are either involved or protected and rewarded by “mafia” for being silent. So your comment is rather naive…
Actually, we have plenty of police here in the Cayman Islands……… They just don’t do a helluva lot! Don’t ask me where they hang out. You might try asking the Chief of police, but he may not know where they hang out either. I see more speeders than I do police cars!
police are like the rest of civic service workers only knows where to find the Delies/ resturarants during work hours and the Bank on pay day.
9:09am the response will be “Its not really an increase in Crime, more crimes are now being reported because people have confidence in RCIP”
What??? People have confidence in RCIP? Am I the only one who doesn’t have confidence in them? I think not! I hardly ever see or hear about police activity. They seem to have no guidence and no effect on crime. What is wrong? Will someone tell me???
Yes….. NO LEADERSHIP!
Pretty soon it will be safer to live in Kingston Jamaica than Cayman.
Is there a difference???
Spoken like someone who has never visited either location. You’d have to be an absolute moron to even allude to this being reality.
You are an absolute moron to deny its inevitability if we stay the present course.
Our crime is in the rise sgd the RCIPS are having an award ceremony ?
There’s no problem, this is all but a slight scuff on our community. If there was a hint of a real problem Gov Roper would be all over it, he’s the one with his finger on the pulse, he’s our champion.
Did you read that Mr Roper, it’s now come to a ******* axe !! 🪓😔
he grins and agrees with the primier
Cayman must love crime for nothing is done about it and from the Governor down are not even saying any thing about it.
Cockroach has no business in a gun, manchette, axe fight.
Wow! The Cayman Islands must be trying to set new records on robbery and theft! And where are the police????? Well, no one knows where they are, but they seem to be having trouble stopping different kinds of robbery, and the reason appears to be a lack of leadership. Will some intelligent person tell me why robberies are getting to be a common occurrence in Grand Cayman? And how about the increase in the handguns? Where are they coming from? When the parliament wakes up and makes carrying an illegal firearm punishable by death, the carrying of illegal weapons will drop… GUARANTEED!
busy looking for tint.
The guns come on the drug boats, as they have been for years.
Easy to get rid of them when they get caught.
Legalize cannabis would help stop the flow of the guns.
Still the same issues that have been here for years and years.
The chickens are coming home to roost and the Govt. does not want to support Caymanians. Way too many people let down.
Incredible that with this sudden spike I am still yet to see a single police car on patrol, anywhere, ever.
Perhaps old school justice is necessary with these punks instead of snowflake sentencing.
I think one of the problems facing law enforcement is people taking advantage of being able to hide their identity. There should be a ban on people driving around with balaclavas and t-shirts wrapped around their faces. I believe that this is an attempt by many to hide their identity from traffic cameras, police, etc. You see so many construction workers and day labourers driving and walking around OUTDOORS with their faces covered. Don’t tell me COVID is their main concern.
Also, we need to limit the number of Jamaicans in the police service. It is well known that Jamaican police officers in Cayman are intimidated by the possibility of criminals retaliating against their family members in Jamaica. This creates a Police service that is afraid to go after the bad guys. It has been happening here for decades and it needs to stop. If Jamaican officers here in Cayman can’t do their jobs because of the potential of their families being harmed in Jamaica, then we shouldn’t hire them.
Saw a worker with his face completely covered in Fosters camana bay the other day.
Dumb and dumber appear to have been released recently.
How will continued rising crime be spun into a “stable crime” affirmative confirmation narrative by this RCIPS’ leadership ahead of their Champagne-fueled Ritz Ballroom Awards ceremony? Or will this be the wider law-abiding public’s fault again? They should chastise us again, that always works. Mansplain how you’re disappointed, and how it’s not acceptable, when it’s your job to get out there and disincentivize opportunistic crime before it happens.
If they cant do anything about people running into power poles and being on the scene when the police arrive, what makes you think they are capable of doing anything about armed robberies?
Looks like the COP is running the opposite of Zero Tolerance Policing – here we have Cayman Tolerance Policing – do whatever the hell you like with no fear of repercussions.