Crime
Appeal court upholds DJ’s rape conviction
(CNS): Local DJ Renato Rolando Harris (41) has failed in his bid to get his 2022 conviction for rape overturned after the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal found “no proper ground to disturb the finding of fact made by the trial judge” in this case. According to the findings of the court, Harris raped the […]
Masked men rob WB grocery shop at knifepoint
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for two tall, slim men who robbed the McRuss grocery store on Mount Pleasant Road in West Bay shortly before 4:00am Saturday. It was reported that two masked men entered the shop armed with bladed weapons and demanded money from the staff. After taking an undisclosed quantity of cash, […]
Coastguard seized 560lbs of ganja in latest interdiction
(CNS): During the recent interdiction at sea during joint maritime operations in international waters, the Cayman Islands Coast Guard and the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard seized an estimated 560 lbs of ganja. Multiple large packets of drugs are now being analysed, and more details of the haul will be presented in court, an RCIPS […]
Gunman fires shots outside Strand nightspot
(CNS): As Grand Cayman’s problem with guns continued this weekend, shots were fired in the parking lot of The Strand Entertainment Complex on the West Bay Road in the early hours of Saturday morning during a fight between at least two men. Police were called to the scene at around 2:50am on 21 September and […]
Machete-wielding robber takes cash from NS shop
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a man who robbed a North Side business last week and made off on foot with an undisclosed sum of money. At about 9:40pm on Friday, 20 September, the robber burst into the store on North Side Road, just west of the Frank Sound Road intersection wielding a […]
RCIPS makes artefact appeal for pop-up museum
(CNS): The RCIPS will be hosting the internationally recognised Police Week for the first time in 28 years this November. In preparation, it is making an appeal for police artefacts, pictures or records that people may have for a pop-up police museum that will be a feature of this event. The week was designed to […]
Al La Kebab truck robbed days after food hut hit
(CNS): The owners of Al La Kebab, the popular take-out food chain, have been the victims of two robberies within three days. Its food truck at the junction of Shamrock Road and Selkirk Drive in Red Bay was hit just after midnight on Wednesday morning after its hut in the Marquee Plaza was robbed on […]
Couple caught trying to steal battery from car
(CNS): A 45-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman, both from George Town, were arrested after police officers caught them trying to steal a battery from a car parked on Smith Road, near the 4-way junction with Hospital Road, in the early hours of Monday morning. The officers were called to the scene following a report […]
Documentary ‘gangsters’ arrested in police bust
(CNS): Three men who bragged about being gang members and owning 3D printed guns as they spoke about the criminality in Cayman in a YouTube documentary by an Eastern European content creator have been arrested. Police raided a home in West Bay Wednesday morning and rounded up the men, aged 29, 41 and 49, in […]
Men wounded in violent altercation, one arrested
(CNS): Two men involved in a fight at a residential address off Northward Road in Bodden Town both ended up in hospital with head injuries on Sunday evening. One of the men, a 34-year-old resident of George Town, was armed with a machete and a hammer when he started the altercation.
Machete-wielding robber strikes at Al La Kebab
(CNS): Police are on the hunt for a man who held up the Al La Kebab restaurant at Marquee Plaza on Lawrence Boulevard in George Town on Sunday night. At around 10:15pm, a tall, slim man wearing a mask and wielding a machete approached the food hut and demanded money. He made off from the […]
