Courts
Local man admits double stabbing at 7M shops
(CN): Nicholas Romano Forbes (31), from Bodden Town, pleaded guilty on Friday to two charges of GBH, admitting that he stabbed one man in the stomach and another in the eye at the parking lot at Seven Mile Shops in June. No details of what led to the violent stabbing were revealed in court, but […]
Armed mugger jailed for over four years
(CNS): A George Town man who mugged two men in one night, taking valuable jewellery at gunpoint to pay off a drug dealer, was jailed Friday for four years and one month. Charles Leonard Walton III (25) robbed both of his victims in the early hours of 29 March on Eastern Avenue just after they […]
Father to serve at least 33 years for killing son
(CNS): Roger Davard Bush (47), who was found guilty in June of murdering his son, will be almost 80 years old when he is eligible to apply for release from jail. When he appeared in court on Thursday, a judge handed him a 33-year minimum tariff for his life sentence, three years more than the […]
Beauty queen claims she was victim in assault case
(CNS): The Miss Cayman Islands Universe title holder denied assaulting her ex-boyfriend’s father when she appeared in court on Monday. Tiffany Conolly (24), from West Bay, who faces several charges of assault and damage to property, claimed she was the victim during a chaotic night in October last year when she went to the home […]
Trusted family friend jailed for molesting child
(CNS): A man (39) was jailed for four years on Friday, following his conviction earlier this year of several counts of indecent assault on a young teenage girl. The man was a long-time family friend whom the girl had known since she was small as he and his wife were close to her family and […]
Beauty shop brawl lands mother in jail
(CNS): Aisha Jamilah English (32), who stabbed her co-worker during a fight at a George Town beauty salon, was sent to prison on Friday for 21 months, having been found guilty on 1 September of unlawful wounding. According to the victim, the two women had argued over a small amount of money, but as she […]
Ex-NHDT chair denies corruption charges
(CNS): Geoffry William Ebanks, the former chair of the National Housing and Development Trust, will face trial next year for charges of corruption in relation to the removal of some 72 truckloads of fill and soil from the housing trust site in North Side to his father’s farm in January. Ebanks pleaded not guilty to […]
Mother reveals anguish after father murdered son
(CNS): The court heard emotional testimony on Wednesday directly from the mother of Shaquille Demario Bush (24) who was gunned down and killed in a hail of bullets by his own father in their West Bay family yard in November 2019. Janet Ebanks said that Shaquille’s father, Roger Deward Bush, was not present at his […]
Poor prison security deprives inmates of rights
(CNS): A lawyer representing Justin Ramoon told the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) on Friday that his Caymanian client, who was moved to the UK to serve a life sentence with a minimum term of 35 years for the murder of Jason Powery, hadn’t seen his son for five years because of the […]
Man denies using fake $100 bill to buy lunch
(CNS): Reese Leon Cornwall from George Town has pleaded not guilty to three serious charges that stem from allegations he used a forged CI$100 note to buy a meal at the Sea Inn on Shedden Road last March. Cornwall is accused of not only getting his $16 lunch but the $84 in change as well […]
500lbs of ganja seized, 4 charged after chase at sea
(CNS): One local man from West Bay and three Jamaican men appeared in court Monday facing drug smuggling charges following a chase at sea on Saturday, when the Cayman Islands Coast Guard seized over 500lbs of ganja. The chase happened around noon while the coastguard boat was on patrol and the crew spotted a suspect […]
