Police seek witnesses to weekend violence
(CNS): Police said there were a number of violent incidents over the weekend across Grand Cayman, some of which resulted in serious injury. Four people landed in hospital after being chopped, shot or stabbed. Police said they are aware that there were several witnesses to all these incidents and investigators are encouraging anyone with information to call them.
The first incident that resulted in serious injury occurred on Friday evening, 16 December. According to the RCIPS, just before 6pm police and other emergency services were dispatched to a residence off Seaview Road, where it was reported that a man had been chopped following an altercation with two other men. The victim was given first aid by the attending officers and was transported to the hospital by ambulance.
The second incident took place about six hours later, just before 11:50pm on Friday. Police responded to a 911 call about a male who had been stabbed at the Marquee Plaza in the vicinity of the Power Supply Bar and had collapsed on the side of the road. Before the police arrived, the victim was transported to the hospital by private vehicle. He sustained serious injuries but is now believed to be in stable condition.
Then just after 3:45pm on Sunday afternoon, there was an altercation between two men at the Globe Bar on Mary Street in Central George Town. During the fight, one of the men was stabbed in the torso area of his body. The victim was transported to the hospital by private vehicle, where he was treated for serious injuries. He is believed to be stable at this time.
Later on Sunday night, police were called back to the Marquee Plaza following a shooting at the Power Supply Bar in which a man was seriously wounded, as previously reported.
All three incidents are being investigated by the RCIPS and so far, no arrests have been made. Police are urging 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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Oh. Lets build bigger taller buildings so we can house the elite in some good ones,
and the worker bees in others — below cost, and add that cost to their cheap “benefits” package and deduct it from their salaries!
Going into 2023, there remains no credible and tested mechanism to prosecute the entrenched corrupt/criminal elements in politics and business, or agencies willing to advocate for the considerable material interests of voters and consumers. We are ALL getting ripped off in so many ways without any recourse. Volumes of disregarded reports on the subject. Yes, as a footnote there are also petty crime burglars too. Culturally, if ranked by social importance and scale of loss, justice should begin at the top.
So if CCTV cameras all over the wold can properly udentify driver and vehicle, why can’t RCIP solve this easy case, or don’t police evwn want it solved or is it another case of Jamaican police showup to the scene of Jamaican criminals who committed the crime? A lost cause again Nepotism reaks the civil service. ls it any wonder we have so many socalled unsolved mystery cases around here. l object, the cases are not unsolved, neither a mystery. A poor woman a mother of 5 children vanished 10 years ago because she was an employee at the public dump where p.officers were supposed to be destroying narcotics.lnstead she told priends that they were actually stealing it instead of destroying the drugs! being in the wrong place at the wrong time cost this precious mom her life. Why has this family not got any justice as yet? Case gone cold.We gave not forgotten Anna.
lm sure there are CCTV cameras setup at the govt dump. lf the powers that be weren’t so whimpy and lazy they would have already chwcked the date if this event against the Date if CCTV fottage searched and verified the officers identities. Prosecuted, and sentenced them a long time ago, but Cayman is as corrupt as anywhere else in the world, no different.
Where is the Justice for that mother of 5 and her family?
Jamaicans running this place for the British and yet we wonder why crime is so bad? A few token Caymanians here and there but only them can end this onslaught and tyranny now plaguing this place. Some may say what proof this is true and why are they able to deport 3rd Generation criminals back to their homeland and we can’t ???
NO – you can’t. Get legal education.
Your statements are not true, it’s the opposite: our crime is almost entirely perpetrated by twisted homegrown Caymanians with long prior arrests and history of trouble-making. Own it, then deal with it. Stop blaming foreigners for our own failures and problems. Read the Cause lists and those Caymanian names are all there. Search the names and you’ll see they come up again and again.
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I agree, some of the names are our very own on the Causelist, but if WORC would use that list as a check when work permits are being requested, I am sure the List would be very short. The names appearing on the court lists with varied surnames they are not from here. No permit should be renewed for anyone on that list. If they are law abiding individuals they would not be before the courts.
Use that Causelist and flush imported criminals from these islands, thereby narrowing it down to locals being prosecuted.
Please stop blaming Jamaicans. The crime is being carried out by our own from West Bay. If you or any of your friends know who these boys are, give them up!
I had high hopes for PACT, but they’re just as useless as the PPM. Failing on all fronts… Crime, traffic, the dump, immigration… the list goes on!
do-nothing-ppm or no-plan-pact…..
PACT pull up your pants and deal with crime, Cubans, immigration and importation of cars by permit holders.
And don’t forget the chickens and cats!
Aw come on… PACT Has done little or nothing up ’til now. Do you REALLY expect more??? Why?
All high end drinking locations where idiots drink
High end???
what hapned to Duffell murder that happen on the main road? The police in charge got promoted but still nothing on Ian! Not good enuff commish!
Get out while you can.
There is nowhere to run-
🇺🇸US is being invaded-2-6K illegals per day,
🇪🇺Europe is a mess heading towards a cliff,
🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇦🇺Canada, New Zealand and Australia are dictatorships..
🇬🇧 The UK is Titanic heading towards an iceberg while the captain is asleep
The Isle of Man, Jersey, Singapore, Switzerland or Monaco.
For a punt for the future El Salvador
Already done it mate. Ridiculous cost to rent. Ridiculous cost of living. Obscene cost of utilities and now Cayman resembles Dodge City. Paradise?…..Yeah right.
Did the same as you. Costs in Cayman have become staggering. Best decision I made in several years was to move.
yet here you are commenting…
EVERY person I know who has had to leave ALWAYS talks about returning. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. and I’ve lived her for 20+ years so have seen alot come and go.
The problem is people who look like adults, but they have the thought process of a child. Usually man babies, but occasionally women too.
If you’re like this in your 20s and above, there’s no hope.
AMEN!
Oh how stupid and slow the Turtle Country government is! Even as Jamaican and Honduran crime is already on shore they are too blind to see its here. No real boarder control, corruption in immigration & customs, people operating illegally under fake T&B Licenses and work permits.
It here, it here its here. You’ve allowed us to become on of them.
Money is being poured into gaudy street renovations and tourist attracts that’s fail. But yet we are being robbed and run over daily. Two tings so easy to fix but will never have the proper support.
MLA with convictions and MLAs that don’t get convicted. Turtle Country will never be safe with this lot running the show.
honest question – are the police trained to catch bad guys or just hunt for and chase them?
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Honest question- how many ministers and other people in a position of power were trained, have skills, or at least have some relevant education???
One would think that for entry-level policing positions applicants must have a high school diploma (or GED) and police academy training.
A law enforcement degree or criminal justice program at a college or university to advance to the highest ranks.
All officers must undergo training to learn about laws, legal procedures, and policing strategies as well as physical conditioning and firearm training.
All have training? Then they must have been too dumb to learn anything!
I have some doubts about the leadership also.
Apparently, no one grades them!!!
Also: Are the RCIPS trained and experienced in proper evidence collection, including proper chain of command? Proper case presentation, including proper spelling and grammar? Is the DPP? Are our illustrious Members of Parliament (AKA “Lawmakers”) prepared to properly increase the penalties? Are they willing to set law abiding examples? Such as passing into law with real consequences, the Standards in Public Life Law? Not using government’s credit card to gamble at casinos? Not be drunk and disorderly and beat up on women and generally behave as a bully? Not run off the road at 11 on a Friday night and say “no big deal, let me call the Premaier!” The Premier not come to the rescue by showing up and than still not encourage or better yet insist that a breathalyzer be done? To set the correct example! Especially as these MP’s had only just signed into law lower blood/alcohol levels for safe and legal driving! Not allow traffic laws to go nearly unenforced altogether for years on end? Not make the first order of business following a pandemic lockdown to be raising their own already exorbitant salaries by some 16-18%!! While near nothing to raise salaries or the standard of living for others! And nothing to raise an embarrassingly low minimum wage in what is consistently one of the 3 most expensive places on the planet!
They rely on the UK template of finger wagging expressing regular and broad disappointment with the general public – the very folks they are sworn to protect and serve – then write and file reports for insurance companies and inquest panels long after incidents have elapsed and perpetrators departed. Sometimes they get a tip from rival gang or get lucky. No reason to get into the vehicle fleets we buy for them to crash and total.
Directly related to opening the bars on Sundays. Thanks MP Ebanks.
I think all five of these were idiot on idiot crimes, likely fueled by excessive consumption of alcohol.
CHOPPED? Wow we have really sunk to a new low!
Chopped is actually a classic going back 500 years.
Not on Sunday’s though. No chopping on Sundays.
Classic line from the Cayman Triangle movie.
This is nothing new, there were machete fights outside local bars long before, namely at Rum Heads. Not trying to downplay your comment but this behaviour is engrained in some of Cayman’s indigenous and inherited cultures.
Men. Always men. What is wrong with you? So stupid that you can’t work out your disagreements without chopping, stabbing or shooting someone.
Men, more than likely raised by single mothers who tried their hardest to raise the boys as emotional men. Now don’t get me wrong, the absent fathers have their share of the responsibility.
Men are not being the leaders and figure heads we need them to be but to make it seem like Men are the only issue, as if women don’t contribute to this situation in the form of single mothers raising boys to become the men that do this or the numerous women who stir up arguments and conflict and run behind men and get them to fight their battles.
Also, when things get primal and down to basic instincts, women LOVE men who are like this. Women seek out the bravado, the cockiness and displays of strength because women want men who have the ability to protect. Women promote and support men who are like this through the woman’s actions but the words women use will always try to steer themselves away from any responsibility with regard to the situation we ALL got ourselves into, just like your comment.
Not the smart women
the majority of us do actually.
You’re right.
These petty problems should be solved with a danceoff.
*disco lights*. Make that buzz work for you. Perfect reason to practice your Snoop-style crip walk.
Any culture that doesn’t teach self respect will self destruct from the inside.
And yet we continue to import it.
it’s called too many baby daddy’s. it’s hard to teach men to be decent humans when your mom is out there messing with thugs and popping out more children who raise themselves.
CONTRACEPTION.
too bad they never use it because they weren’t taught sex Ed in school.
Its a riddle wrapped inside of an enigma, isn’t it? Trying to work out why there’s an uptick/surge in crime and assaults and related events in our little society in a bubble here on the edge of the trench.
Can it be anything at all to with the greed and insularism that pervades the community as a whole, not discounting the fleeting pretense of worship for forgiveness of our repeated sins?!
A govt that since the 70’s has failed to plan accordingly across industry (see education; see infrastructure; see health; see basic human rights; see west bay road; see pretty much everything). All members of every single version of our governing councils/committees/legislatures over the past 50 yrs are to blame – whether directly by engaging in such utter corruption as is clear to anyone not wilfully blind; or indirectly by accepting the ways of the almighty dollar from within and afar as simply too strong a force to publicly decry and shame.
And here we are. More roundabouts than turtles. And we have our heads stuck in the shells as we keep circling them.
The crime we see today is merely the early stage of where we’re going. There will be homes putting bars on windows soon. More guards at ‘gated’ communities. Probably armed guards at banks and jewelry stores in the coming years.
All because the very few who could, did not. And by enabling the greed (both caymanian and foreign) to so deeply pervade the entire circus that is our executive, administrative and to an extent legislative branches we are here today.
Its not good my friends. And its going to get a lot worse. Only a radical change from the bottom-up of major governmental methods, starting with allowing paper Caymanians to vote, will present even a glimmer of a chance of change. Caymanians, we must accept total responsibility for today – the buck stops at the top.
The top is government.
only ‘true’ (what a joke that is) Caymanians can be elected.
Something HAS to change here. After 50 years of limited, closed shop back scratching – i’d suggest giving it a go and cast a wider net for help.
Put it this way – it won’t be any worse.
Agree generally with your comments, except that paper Caymanians can, indeed, vote but that only multi-generational Caymanians can run for Parliament.
This is not irrational, given that Caymanian status grantees offspring will be able to run for office, provided they stay in the Cayman Islands and entrench their Caymanian roots deeper.
“Status grantees” euphemism for Jamaicans.
Jamaicans will be completely in control of Cayman when that happens.
I weep for Cayman .
“Paper” Caymanians CAN vote already…Allowing them to run for office is what is needed.
Do you people understand which country the majority of Paper Caymanians hail from and their mentality? The last thing we need to give them is the right to run for election.
Thanks Mac.
Another of your self serving gifts that keeps on giving.
I’d hedge a bet that 85% of Caymans residents either are involved and or are supporting some kind of corrupt activity. Some without even knowing it since they would consider it normal. The average moral and ethical compass bearing for the whole territory has been drifting South for many decades. Now it seems it will not revert without a major upheaval as in total breakdown of the system.
8.00am There are now more Paper Caymanians on Voter’s list than Generational so not sure if you know the difference. How do u think the PACT bunch got elected. Imported illiteracy added to our own now voting.
Rubbish and projecting!
Congratulation for fabricating a factoid which actually sounds plausible. However, looked at the registered electors. If you are really from here, you will understand that you just pulled that facoid out of your expansive posterior.
Nice try though. It sounded “truthy”.