Crime
Man hospitalised after being chopped in head
(CNS): Police are investigating a serious assault which took place in George Town during the early hours of Monday morning. Officers responded to the report that a man had been on the roadside outside an address on Shedden Road, near Main Street, at around 4:00am when he was approached by a man whom he knew. […]
Police, CBC recruiting only Caymanians and PRs
(CNS): Information circulated on social media implying that the RCIPS and the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control (CBC) have deliberately failed Caymanians in their recent local recruitment drives by hiring nationals from other jurisdictions over local candidates is false, the police said in a release.
ACC charges two men with deception, money laundering
(CNS): The Anti-Corruption Commission has charged two George Town men with a list of criminal offences in relation to an undisclosed, mysterious corruption probe that was described by investigators as “complex and protracted”. Maxwell Renal Linwood (46), a former public officer who, CNS has learned, was previously employed at the Department of Environmental Health, and […]
Cubans using CAL to get to mainland
(CNS): Cabinet has approved amendments to the Customs and Border Control (Visas, Entry and Landing) Regulations, 2019 to introduce in-transit visas for Cuban nationals. Statistics show that significant numbers of Cuban nationals are travelling through the Cayman Islands and onto mainland South or Central American countries on a return ticket but are not returning. Instead, […]
RCIPS runs crisis de-escalation course
(CNS): Retired US Marine Corps veteran Lieutenant Mark Lowther, who has 31 years of police and public safety experience, held a crisis intervention and de-escalation course hosted by the RCIPS last month. Lowther, a professional crisis and hostage negotiator, was invited to conduct training sessions for local police officers and others who deal with vulnerable […]
Carjacker left ‘weapon’ at scene of Christmas crime
(CNS): A screwdriver used to threaten the victim during a carjacking on Christmas Day evening was left at the scene by the perpetrator and handed to the police by the victim when he reported the crime, a court heard on Tuesday. Following forensic testing, DNA on the tool led police to charge Gerardo George Connolly […]
Robber mugs man then steals from bar patrons
(CNS): A masked man armed with a machete approached another man in the street somewhere in the Shedden Road area of downtown George Town Tuesday night sometime before 10:00pm and demanded cash. The robber made off on foot with an undisclosed quantity of cash before he reportedly ran through the outside area of a bar […]
Two men arrested in East End after drug bust
(CNS): Two men, aged 46 and 31, were arrested for various drug-related offences following a raid at an East End home on Sunday morning. Police said the operation under the Misuse of Drugs Act took place at around 11:30am on 2 June. When they arrived, the younger man was seated in a vehicle at the […]
Buttonwood removal case ‘complex’ and ‘unusual’
(CNS): Local attorney Ben Tonner KC told a court on Wednesday morning that he was still engaged in discussions with the crown relating to the case against his client, Bon Crepe Ltd, and its owner, James Bergstrom, who has been charged with taking a protective species in relation to buttonwood trees removed from land in […]
Man jailed after streaming attack on Snapchat
(CNS): Sidney Henry (21) will serve at least ten months of a 20-month sentence in jail after he pleaded guilty to what a judge called a “vicious assault” last year on a former friend. As well as the violence inflicted, Henry also cut off his victim’s hair locks and streamed the entire assault on the […]
Cops net another suspected burglar after BT break-ins
(CNS): A 35-year-old man from George Town who was arrested on 29 May in relation to two burglaries at the same bar on Bodden Town Road in Bodden Town has now been charged with two counts of burglary as police track down another suspected repeat offender. In this case, the man is accused of breaking […]
