Police

Suspect charged with two high-value burglaries
(CNS): A 43-year-old man from George Town was arrested on Wednesday, 29 January, and has since been charged with burglary in connection with two recent break-ins at commercial premises in George Town. The first burglary happened on 26 January at an electronic store on Crewe Road, where multiple electronic items, including mobile phones, were stolen. […]

Food delivery man injured and robbed by armed gang
(CNS): A food delivery driver was robbed by four masked men on Wednesday night just after he had taken food to an address on Marina Drive, close to Orange Drive. Police said that around 9:55pm the driver was returning to his vehicle when he was approached by the robbers dressed in black hoodies and armed […]

Cop crashes patrol car into a wall while answering call
(CNS): The RCIPS Traffic and Roads Policing Unit is investigating one of its own after an officer driving a marked police service vehicle crashed into a wall on Bodden Road at around 1:15pm on Sunday. Police did not give an exact location of the single-vehicle collision, but social media footage indicates that it happened near […]

Man receives stomach wound in barroom stabbing
(CNS): A man was stabbed in the stomach outside a bar on Eastern Avenue close to the Dolphin Centre in George Town in the early hours of Monday morning, 27 January. Police were called out to the location at about 2:30am yesterday after a report was made of a man being armed with a machete […]

Burglars make off with large electronic hauls
(CNS): Two electronic stores in George Town were broken into last week, and thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of goods. Police said the first commercial burglary was reported to them at about 9:40am on Monday by a store on Eastern Avenue. The burglars broke in through the front door and stole dozens of […]

Police arrest three young drivers for excessive speed
(CNS): Three drivers aged 22 and under were stopped by police on Sunday, 22 January, for excessive speeding, in one case for driving under the influence. One young woman caught doing 64mph in a 25mph zone could lose her license. Another is facing a long list of charges after police stopped her doing 62mph in a […]

Drunk driver hits pedestrian after crash on Hirst Road
(CNS): A 41-year-old man from George Town was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Wednesday evening after he knocked down a pedestrian following a crash with another vehicle on Hirst Road in Newlands near the intersection of Rex Crighton Boulevard. The other driver, who fled the scene, was later located and arrested.

File sent to prosecutors over murder of toddler
(CNS): Three people who were arrested in December in connection with the death of two-year-old Alissady Powell on Cayman Brac in July 2022 and remain on bail have not been charged, but a file has been sent to prosecutors, the police have confirmed. The three individuals were the last people to see the little girl […]

Unexplained death on NYE now under suspicion
(CNS): Police have now revealed that the man who was found dead on a George Town street on the morning of New Year’s Eve may have been assaulted, and his death is now being treated as suspicious. At the time the body of 56-year-old Christopher Spencer Johnson was discovered, even though a pathologist had attended […]