Crime
West Bay father charged with killing son
(CNS): A 46-year-old man from West Bay was re-arrested yesterday more than a year after his son was shot and killed on Daisy Lane. Shaquille Demario Bush was 24 in November 2019 when he was gunned down near to his home. His father was arrested at the time for the crime but bailed. Police have now charged […]
Christmas Eve killing not self-defence, says crown
(CNS): Prosecutors presenting charges against Jashawn Owen Anthony Johnson (21) for the murder of Michael Aaron Bush (22) in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 2020 have said that the young man intended to kill the victim and was not acting in self-defence. Candia James-Malcolm, the acting director of public prosecutions, told the court […]
Man stabbed in neck, woman arrested
(CNS): A 34-year-old woman from George Town was arrested on suspicion of wounding last night and remains in police custody, while a man is in hospital in serious but stable condition. Police responded to a report of the serious assault at around 10:30pm Wednesday at a home on Patrick’s Avenue, Prospect. According to the RCIPS, […]
Resident wakes to armed raiders
(CNS): A man living on Oakmill Street in George Town awoke to find two masked armed men searching their home just after 6am on Monday. According to an RCIPS press release the burglars fled on foot with a quantity of cash, jewellery and personal items, but no one was injured. The suspects were said to […]
Only suspect in Yates killing was also murdered
(CNS): Victor Yates was just 22 years old when he was gunned down near Super C’s restaurant in West Bay in the early morning hours of 3 January 2015. Yates sustained a single gunshot wound to the head, and the case is the coldest of cases for the RCIPS because they believe they have already […]
BT man charged over loaded gun and ganja
(CNS): Michael Conrad Ebanks (36) from Bodden Town, who was arrested after one of the tyres on the car he was driving was blown out by a mysterious weapon deployed by police last week, appeared in court Tuesday facing charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, possession of ganja with intent to supply, […]
Detective says ‘Deebo’ murder still a live inquiry
(CNS): The investigation into who killed Damean Dwayne Seymour (34), better known as “Deebo”, is still an active inquiry in which police are pursuing a number of leads that have led them to look for his killer overseas. At a Coroners Court hearing on Friday, Detective Inspector Adeniyi Collins Oremule told a jury that Seymour’s […]
Killers still unknown a decade later
(CNS): Two unresolved deaths were confirmed as unlawful killings by the Coroners Court on Thursday, when the jury heard the details of how the men were shot and killed in two separate murders in 2011 and 2013 in what police believe were gang-related crimes. Preston Ezekiel Rivers was just 18 years old when he was […]
Cops disable car and seize loaded gun on GT street
(CNS): Police used some form of “special munitions” to blow out a tyre of a car being driven by a man who was trying to evade arrest in George Town on Thursday. An unlicensed firearm loaded with ammunition was recovered from the car and a 39-year-old man from West Bay was arrested on suspicion of […]
Experts stick by findings in deadly crash
(CNS): Two crash re-constructionists who concluded that Philip Price (34) was the driver in a fatal crash in East End in 2018, in which his wife was killed but he was never prosecuted, stood by their findings when they appeared before the Coroners Court on Wednesday. The inquest jury returned a verdict of misadventure but […]
Family charged in child ‘slavery’ case
(CNS): A 59-year-old woman and her 42-year-old son from East End have been charged with stealing a child and cruelty to a child in relation to accusations they enticed a 12-year-old boy from Jamaica to the Cayman Islands, where he was abused, neglected and enslaved. Lurline Viola Henry Smith and Anthony Ricardo Jackson were arrested […]
