Crime
Drunk driver hits pedestrian after crash on Hirst Road
(CNS): A 41-year-old man from George Town was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Wednesday evening after he knocked down a pedestrian following a crash with another vehicle on Hirst Road in Newlands near the intersection of Rex Crighton Boulevard. The other driver, who fled the scene, was later located and arrested.
File sent to prosecutors over murder of toddler
(CNS): Three people who were arrested in December in connection with the death of two-year-old Alissady Powell on Cayman Brac in July 2022 and remain on bail have not been charged, but a file has been sent to prosecutors, the police have confirmed. The three individuals were the last people to see the little girl […]
Customs refuse to offer details on Brac airport arrest
(CNS): Customs and Border Control officers arrested an unnamed individual on Thursday, 16 January, as he arrived at the Charles Kirkconnell International Airport on Cayman Brac. According to a short notification from the CBC, the Cayman Islands resident was arrested following an X-ray baggage examination. However, officials have refused to say what was found in […]
Anonymous witness points finger at Rankine as killer
(CNS): An anonymous witness in the trial of Antascio Rankine (30) and Roland Welcome (30), who are accused of murdering Sven Connor, insisted that they were not mistaken when they saw Rankine involved in a serious altercation with the victim minutes before he was shot dead. Only the judge and the jury could see the […]
Police net 40 speeders in one day across eastern districts
(CNS): RCIPS officers issued 40 tickets to speeders in a one-day operation last week focused on drivers between Bodden Town and North Side. Following the regular holiday seasonal crackdown on rogue drivers, the traffic unit said they would continue targeted traffic enforcement initiatives into the new year.
Crown: Killers carried out murder with ruthless efficiency
(CNS): The men accused of killing Sven Brett Connor when they opened fire into his bedroom window at his home in East End, on Fiddlers Way, in December 2023, carried out the plan and execution with “ruthless efficiency”, Barnaby Jameson KC told a jury on Wednesday, as he opened the crown’s case against them. Prosecutors […]
Unexplained death on NYE now under suspicion
(CNS): Police have now revealed that the man who was found dead on a George Town street on the morning of New Year’s Eve may have been assaulted, and his death is now being treated as suspicious. At the time the body of 56-year-old Christopher Spencer Johnson was discovered, even though a pathologist had attended […]
Drunks and speeders causing most of serious crash toll
(CNS): Even though drinking and driving is one of the main causes of accidents on local roads, overnight on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, police arrested only four people for DUI and just 23 in total during the holiday safety campaign Operation Winter Guardian. Reflecting on the road safety element of the holiday […]
Killer jailed for at least 35 years for double murder
(CNS): Wayne Bellafonte (34) from North Side was jailed last week for life following his conviction in September for the murder of Mark Andre Ebanks (36) and Eldon Charles Walton (55) outside the Globe Bar on Martin Drive, George Town, over three years ago. Bellefonte was also convicted of the attempted murder of a third man and possession of […]
Grocery store armed robbers jailed for 7+ years
(CNS): Randon Odell Davis (26) and Lincoln Donovan Sibron (22), both Jamaican nationals, were sent to jail on Friday for more than seven years after being convicted in June last year of armed robbery. The pair pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and the possession of an imitation gun regarding a stick-up in February […]
‘Copious evidence’ dooms gas station robber’s appeal
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has upheld both the robbery conviction and the 12-year sentence handed down in 2023 to Alvin Shaquille Ebanks, dismissing his in-person appeal because of what the court described as the copious evidence against him. In the ruling published last month, the court found that the sentence given to […]
