Tag: fatality
Local businessman loses long battle with cancer
(CNS): Local developer and businessman Gene Thompson (59), who was instrumental in the development of Health City Cayman Islands, has died after a long battle with cancer. Since the well-known local entrepreneur passed away on Tuesday, condolences and tributes have poured into social media. Cline Glidden, a close friend and former MLA, described him as […]
Police name driver killed in Brac crash with cop
(CNS): Police have said that the driver killed on Valentine’s Day in a collision on Cayman Brac involving a black Hyundai Tucson and a white Honda Integra was 47-year-old Thomas William McLean Sr. The RCIPS has confirmed that the surviving driver in the crash, an off-duty police officer who was unhurt, has not been arrested. […]
Driver killed in Brac crash with off-duty cop
(CNS): The police on Cayman Brac are currently investigating a fatal collision which occurred shortly after 1pm on Valentine’s Day, 14 February, on the Bluff near Banksville. The driver of one of the vehicles was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel. His passenger was uninjured and the driver of the second vehicle, an […]
Local man found dead in boat off 7MB
(CNS): A local man believed to be from Cayman Brac was found dead in a boat in the water off Seven Mile Beach, close to the Kimpton Hotel in West Bay, Saturday lunchtime. Police said the report came in at about 12 noon on 4 February. The man had been brought back to shore by […]
US visitor dies after swimming off Eden Rock
(CNS): A man who was visiting the Cayman Islands from the United States died yesterday after he was pulled from the water and rushed to hospital. According to a police press release, just after 11:30am Wednesday, the emergency services were called to the George Town waterfront by Don Fosters Dive Shop where the man was […]
West Bay man killed after crashing car into wall
(CNS): A 23-year-old man from West Bay died in the early hours of Saturday morning after the green Honda Fit he was driving smashed into a wall on Eastern Avenue close to Watlers Drive. Police were called to the scene of the single-vehicle crash at around 1:30am. The car was travelling westbound on Eastern Avenue […]
Traffic police seek witnesses to EE deadly crash
(CNS): Police are appealing for witnesses to the fatal crash on the Queen’s Highway in East End last Friday morning involving a silver Honda Fit. Amber Bianca Martinez (29), a doctor at the Health Services Authority, was killed in the single-car collision. Anyone who witnessed the crash or saw the car in the vicinity of […]
RCIPS apologises for identifying road crash victim
(CNS): The RCIPS has apologised to the family of the victim in the fatal crash on the Queen’s Highway on 24 October for the premature identification of her. There is no doubt that the woman killed in the collision was Amber Bianca Martinez (29), a doctor at the Health Services Authority, as she had been identified […]
Driver killed in crash on Queen’s Highway
(CNS): Police are currently investigating a fatal single-vehicle collision shortly after 6:00 Friday morning on the Queen’s Highway in East End. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the silver Honda Fit was being driven by a woman who was alone in the car when it was involved in a crash and caught fire near to Sunnyfield Road. […]
US visitor dies following dive off West Bay beach
(CNS): Police have now named the 70-year-old woman, visiting the Cayman Islands from the United States who died Friday morning as Pamela Bartlett Wilson. The woman died following a dive off the shore of West Bay Public Beach at around 9:50am. The emergency services and the police were called to the dock in the area, […]
Public Health reports two COVID-related deaths
(CNS): The Public Health Department has confirmed two more “COVID-related deaths”. Health officials said that both individuals had several comorbidities. One had received two doses of the vaccination, though it was not stated when they had their last shot, while the other was unvaccinated. Since the first case of the virus in March 2020, there […]
