Tag: East End
Engine trouble lands migrants in East End
(CNS): A boat carrying six men and one woman who were heading from Cuba to Honduras arrived in East End, off Morritts Tortuga Club at around 2:3am, Wednesday, 21 September after experiencing engine trouble, the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control Service (CBC) has confirmed. This latest group of seven migrants disembarked the vessel and were […]
CBC detention centre full, Cubans moved to Gun Bay
(CNS) UPDATED: Another seven Cubans, including one woman, arrived in Cayman Brac waters on Thursday morning and disembarked their vessel. This brings the number of migrants currently held by Customs and Border Control Service to 170 and the detention centre is now at capacity. As part of its Mass Migration Contingency Plan, CBC officials said […]
Fatal crash near blowholes in East End
(CNS): The male driver of a Jeep Wrangler died following a crash early Saturday morning in East End. The single-vehicle collision happened around 2.35am on Seaview Road, in the vicinity of the blowholes, as the jeep was reportedly travelling westbound and ran over the guard railing and into the water. The RCIPS said in a […]
Recycling finally available in East End
(CNS): Four years after the Department of Environmental Health took over collecting the recycling at supermarkets around Grand Cayman, a request by residents to place recycling containers in East End, the only district in Grand Cayman that did not have any, has been granted. Before these units were placed by the Captain George Dixon Park […]
CPA rejects chicken farm’s changed site
(CNS): Plans to open a commercial chicken farm in East End have been rejected by the Central Planning Authority after dozens of residents objected to the project, which could have resulted in as many 10,000 laying hens housed in large barns. Toepaz, the company that made the application, was granted planning permission back in May […]
Police seek EE man following knife attack
(CNS): One man is in hospital with a serious stab wound and another remains on the run following an altercation at a house on Sea View Road in East End yesterday at around 5:15pm. Police said the victim was standing outside a residence when a man, whom he knew, approached on a bicycle, stabbed him […]
Fire crews battle East End bush blaze
(CNS) UPDATED: Officials have confirmed that firefighters worked through the night and have now extinguished the brush fire which was blazing near the East End quarry throughout the night. The blaze was doused by around 3.35am Wednesday but the fire crews remained at the scene until 5am to make sure it did not reignite. Chief Fire Officer […]
Passengers in fatal crash were in trunk
(CNS): The RCIPS has said that the man and child who survived the fatal collision in East End last night were sitting in the trunk of the Honda Accord when it crashed head on with a Kia Rio. The driver of the Honda and the three elderly visitors in the Kia were all killed in […]
Live-in cops planned for NS and EE
(CNS): Police Commissioner Derek Byrne has revealed plans to post live-in officers at the North Side and East End police stations after renovations to the two stations that have been closed or unmanned for years are completed. The independent MLAs for both districts have been calling on successive RCIPS chiefs to do something about what […]
Environmental protection set up at East End cop shop
(CNS): Environmental enforcement officers now have a permanent operational base in East End as a result of a partnership with the police. The RCIPS have joined forces with the Department of Environment and have given office space to the DoE for operational purposes at the East End Police Station. Deploying from there, enforcement officers will […]
Men to stand trial over violent assaults
(CNS): Cory Bowen (29) from George Town pleaded not guilty on Friday to unlawfully wounding a man during a violent incident in Prospect last month. Bowen is accused of stabbing his victim multiple times in the neck during an altercation in Dogwood Drive and will now face trial in March next year. Meanwhile, Chad Ebanks […]
