Crime
Visiting judge sworn and jury selected for Bush trial
(CNS): Justice Stanley John has been sworn in by Governor Jane Owen so that he can sit on the Cayman bench to preside over the trial of former premier and former speaker McKeeva Bush. Following a survey of prospective jurors, a panel of seven members and four alternates were selected Monday ahead of the trial, […]
Local driver jailed for 57 months for killing nurse
(CNS): Kesley Arnoldo Martinez-Ebanks (28) was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison last week in relation to a head-on collision in South Sound almost three years ago in which Kiarah Perkins Williams (32) was killed and three other people were injured. Ebank initially denied the charges but then pleaded guilty in August […]
Guns imported through legal ‘loophole’, court finds
(CNS): The crown’s case against Anton Parygin (45), a Russian national with both Canadian and Israeli citizenship, hit shaky ground this week ahead of his scheduled trial. Parygin, who brought three unlicensed guns with him when he moved to the Cayman Islands for work, faces several charges relating to importing and possessing illegal weapons, but […]
Police find one of two stolen boats in South Sound
(CNS): Police have recovered one of two stolen boats that were reported missing Thursday morning from a vacant lot in Prospect. Officers found the white 27ft Key West Center Console with two 150hp Yamaha engines yesterday afternoon on South Sound Road following investigations. Still missing is a white 18ft Center Console Boston Whaler with a […]
Local store robbed steps from police station
(CNS): Two men held up a local grocery store at gunpoint Thursday night in a brazen robbery just steps away from the West Bay Police Station. Two suspects were later picked up with an undisclosed quantity of cash. According to the RCIPS, at about 7:30pm the robbers, wearing masks and hoodies, entered a small convenience […]
Fleeing man with weapon arrested in GT school
(CNS): Police officers arrested a man armed with a “bladed weapon” Friday morning after he ran into the George Town Primary School. The RCIPS said that the man, who was apparently experiencing mental health issues, had been seen with the weapon at around 7:45am on the waterfront behaving erratically and aggressively.
Another violent attack on Cayman Brac
(CNS): The second violent attack in a fortnight on Cayman Brac took place Thursday lunchtime. Yesterday’s assault with a machete in the parking lot of Coral Isle Restaurant on South Side Road West follows a stabbing at La Esperanza bar on Watering Place Road on 28 January. The suspects arrested by the police on both […]
Soto dodges conviction in gun possession case
(CNS): Eric Brian Williams Soto (23), who was recently convicted of manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of Harry Elliott (63), was acquitted last month of illegal gun charges in relation to another incident. Defence attorney Keith Myers made a successful application during a jury trial that there was no case to answer because the […]
Officer cleared over death of K9 at GT Police Station
(CNS): A police constable charged with animal cruelty following the death in 2022 of Baron, a police dog in the RCIPS K-9 Unit, has been acquitted after a magistrate found he was not to blame. The dog died of heat stroke after he was left outside the George Town Police Station in the sun without […]
Trial delayed after jury discharged in NHDT case
(CNS): The trial of the former chair of the National Housing Development Trust has been delayed due to unexpected connections between jury members and witnesses or the defendant. After the crown prosecutor outlined the case against Geoffry William Ebanks on Thursday morning, two jurors raised concerns about their connections to the case and were both […]
GT woman arrested on suspicion of Brac stabbing
(CNS): A 46-year-old woman has been arrested at her home address in George Town on suspicion of stabbing a man during a fight at La Esperanza bar on Watering Place Road, Cayman Brac, on 28 January. Police said the woman, who was arrested for assault GBH, was taken into custody on Grand Cayman at 6pm […]
