Tag: fatality
Rider killed in raceway track crash
(CNS): Local motorbike racer Kashwayne McKenzie (29) was killed on Sunday following a crash at the Parker’s Raceway track in Breakers. Police are investigating the circumstances of the collision, which happened at about 2pm as McKenzie, who was a prison officer, was nearing the end of a race and approaching the finish line. It was […]
Driver arrested over fatal George Town crash
(CNS): A 39-year-old woman from the Dominican Republic who is living in George Town has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving in relation to the fatal collision in which Cuban national Aleiny Reve Villegas (20) was killed. The woman was also injured when the white Honda she was driving crashed into […]
Police seek driver who may have seen fatal crash
(CNS): Police are asking the driver of a small sedan who was the first on the scene of a fatal road smash early Monday morning in George Town to come forward as they believe he may have seen what happened. The collision in which Aleiny Reve Villegas (20) was killed took place around 3:40am on […]
Crash claims the life of 12th road victim in 2022
(CNS): A 20-year-old woman became the twelfth person to die on Cayman’s roads early Monday morning. Police said that shortly before 3:40am a white Honda Accord crashed on Eastern Avenue near the Shedden Road junction, by Champion House restaurant. In addition to the fatality, the three other people in the car were injured, including two […]
Mother of bride killed in single-vehicle crash
(CNS): A 77-year-old woman from Bodden Town was killed in a single-vehicle crash in George Town early Sunday morning on the way home from her daughter’s wedding. The woman was one of four people in a white Kia Sportage SUV that crashed into a tree on South Church Street near to Memorial Avenue at around […]
GC police sent to Brac to investigate child’s death
(CNS): Five police investigators, supported by forensic specialists and a pathologist, have been sent to Cayman Brac to support local officers investigating the tragic death of a two-year-old girl on the island on Monday. The RCIPS team from Grand Cayman was sent on Wednesday and police said they are now carrying out a full investigation […]
Police open inquiry after toddler drowns on Brac
(CNS): The RCIPS is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a two-year-old child, whose body was found along the shoreline by the Cayman Brac Fire Service (CIFS) this morning (Tuesday 26 July). Police said the child was last seen at around 4.30am. She was discovered missing at about 5:10am and the police were notified […]
Cayman police officer shot dead on holiday in Honduras
(CNS): RCIPS Police Constable Antonio Lopez Jackson (64) was shot and killed on Saturday, 9 July, while vacationing in Honduras with his family. No one else was injured during the incident. The RCIPS has not said what happened or where exactly he was killed, but according to posts on social media, Jackson was the victim […]
Former governor Michael Gore dies aged 86
(CNS): Michael Edward John Gore, who was the Cayman Islands governor from 1992 to 1995, has died aged 86. Both Premier Wayne Panton and Governor Martyn Roper released statements Friday morning responding to the news of his death, saying that they were saddened to hear of his passing and offering condolences. Panton said Gore was a dear […]
US visitor dies after swimming off 7MB
(CNS): A 50-year-old visitor from the United States was pulled out of the sea off Seven Mile Beach west of Marsh Road on Tuesday evening after he lost consciousness. Police said that at around 5:30pm people nearby saw that he was in distress and pulled him out of the water. They conducted CPR until emergency […]
Missing US visitor’s body found in East End
(CNS) UPDATED: The body of a 54-year-old man who was reported missing about 4pm Monday and found Tuesday morning on the shore off the Queen’s Highway in East End has been identified as Jason Douglas Brant. The man, who was visiting Cayman, from Colorado in the United States had gone out snorkelling on Monday afternoon […]
