Tag: fatality
Fatal crash suspect fails in bid to leave Cayman
(CNS): A Canadian national and resident of the Cayman Islands who was arrested in March on suspicion of causing the death of Abele Hiwet (38) on the West Bay Road in a hit-and-run has failed in a legal bid to leave the country. The 36- year-old man who is on police bail, sought a judicial […]
Special UK team to review child’s death on the Brac
(CNS): The RCIPS has commissioned a specialist UK team to review the mysterious death of two-year-old Alissady Azalea Powell last July on Cayman Brac. Over the last ten months, the police have said very little about what they believe happened to the child. But Police Commissioner Derek Byrne has now drafted an independent team, headed […]
Badly injured passenger sues cops over fatal crash
(CNS): Paris Gabriella Ebanks (26), a passenger in the back of a car involved in a deadly crash during a police chase in January 2021, is suing the RCIPS over the life-threatening injuries and pain she has suffered. Ebanks claims that the high-speed, early morning chase in West Bay caused the crash in which Shayne […]
Traffic police seek witnesses to fatal weekend crash
(CNS): Officers from the RCIPS Traffic and Roads Policing Unit are asking for witnesses to the fatal collision on Shamrock Road during the early hours of Sunday morning. Channah Connor (22), the niece of Deputy Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, was alone in the car when she was killed in the single-vehicle crash. Police believe she lost […]
Woman killed after car hits a wall in Spotts
(CNS): A driver was killed in an early morning single-vehicle crash on Shamrock Road in Spotts early Sunday morning. Police said the collision happened around 1:30am near Coral Bay Village. The car was believed to be travelling in the westbound lane when the driver, a 22-year-old female, lost control and left the road before crashing […]
Police deny closing case in child’s mysterious death
(CNS): The RCIPS has denied closing the investigation into the unexplained death of a child in Cayman Brac last summer. The body of Alissady Azalea Powell was found on the ironshore more than a mile from where her family was staying in South Side East, Cayman Brac. The child was found missing from her bed […]
Motorbike rider killed in Walkers Rd crash
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now confirmed that a 28-year-old man from George Town was killed in the crash this morning on Walkers Road. The RCIPS has now said that the man was riding a motorbike, having said he was a cyclist in the first report about the collision. A 53-year-old George Town man has been […]
Pedestrian was hit by two vehicles in fatal collision
(CNS): Henry Schucair Robinson (61), from Bodden Town, was killed around 7pm on 24 November 2019 after he was hit by two vehicles on Anton Bodden Drive. One of the drivers left the scene before police officers took his details and was never tracked down. Following an inquest into the tragic collision, the case was […]
Cyclist killed in hit and run on Frank Sound Rd
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now arrested the driver of a white Chevrolet Blazer involved in the fatal collision Tuesday night on Frank Sound Road that killed local cyclist – Daniel Ernest McFarlane (23) from East End. The 47-year-old man from North Side was arrested on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident and Causing […]
E-bike rider killed, Jeep driver arrested after fleeing scene
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now identified the man killed in a hit and run last week on the West Bay Road. He was Abele Hiwet (38) an Italian national residing in Cayman. A 36-year-old man from West Bay was arrested following a fatal collision during the early hours of Wednesday morning close to Queen’s Court […]
US visitor dies after diving on Cayman Brac
(CNS): A 75-year-old man who was visiting the Cayman Islands from the United States died Tuesday morning following a dive off Cayman Brac. Police and emergency services were called to Channel Road around 9:30 that morning, where the man had been brought to shore after getting into difficulties during a dive in the area. Cayman […]
