Tag: fatality
Elderly woman dies five days after crash
(CNS): An 84-year-old George Town woman who was critically injured in a collision in the capital last weekend has died as a result of her injuries. She became the tenth person to lose their life on local roads this year after she passed away at the George Town Hospital on Thursday, 16 June. The crash […]
US visitor dies after snorkelling at Kittiwake
(CNS): A 55-year-old man who was visiting the Cayman Islands from the United States has become the third person to die in the sea this year. Police said that shortly after 3:15pm Wednesday, 15 June, officers responded to a report of a person in distress at sea. The man, who had been snorkelling near the […]
Woman killed in crash on Cayman Brac
(CNS): Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal single-car collision on Cayman Brac early Wednesday morning. The accident, which was reported at around 2:50am, involved a blue Honda Fit and happened on West End East Road. The driver, the only person in the car, was trapped inside and had to be extricated by the […]
Witnesses sought for fatal crash on West Bay Road
(CNS): Traffic police are making another appeal for witnesses to the early morning collision last week in which Anwar Ali Bakari Abdurrahman (41), a Kenyan national residing in the Cayman Islands, was killed. The crash happened at around 4am on Thursday, 26 May, on the West Bay Road by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. A 24-year-old man […]
One man killed in early morning road crash
(CNS) UPDATED: A 41-year-old man was killed in a two-vehicle crash on the West Bay Road that happened at around 4:00 Thursday morning by the Ritz Carlton hotel at the junction of Safehaven Drive. Police said that the driver of a Honda Civic died after he was trapped in the car following a collision with […]
Cayman loses two long-serving political icons
(CNS): National Hero Sybil Ione McLaughlin (93), the first clerk of the Legislative Assembly following the adoption in 1959 of the first Cayman Islands Constitution, passed away peacefully Tuesday morning. Her colleague, Arley James “AJ” Miller, Cayman’s last surviving Vestryman to serve in the original legislative body before it transitioned to the Legislative Assembly, died […]
COVID-19 claims life of an elderly patient
(CNS): An elderly patient with severe comorbidities who was positive for COVID-19 has died, Public Health officials confirmed Thursday. This brings the total deaths in the Cayman Islands related to the virus to 28. Another six people remain in the hospital, three of whom have been vaccinated. Over the last two days 191 people have […]
Local man dies after Smith Cove swim
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now confirmed that the 75-year-old Caymanian man who died on Saturday afternoon at Smith Cove after he got into difficulties during a swim in the sea was Eldon Leroy Nixon, from George Town. Other people at the popular beach had noticed that he was in distress and brought him back to […]
Man shot dead at George Town business premises
(CNS): A 63-year-old local man was shot and killed on Monday evening at commercial premises on School Road, close to the Eastern Avenue junction in George Town. Police said they have opened a murder investigation but would not confirm any of the circumstances of the killing, which took place at around 8:30 last night during […]
US visitor dies after snorkelling off 7MB
(CNS): A 67-year-old man from the United States who was found in the sea close to The Beachcomber off the West Bay Road, along Seven Mile Beach, was pronounced dead at the George Town hospital on Friday afternoon. The man was in the water snorkelling when he lost consciousness and was brought to shore by […]
Uncle Bill, father of PPM leader, dies aged 87
(CNS): Local businessman William McTaggart, better known as “Uncle Bill”, the father of Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart, has died. The announcement was made by the PPM chairman and former premier, Sir Alden McLaughlin, who said the Progressives family was deeply saddened to learn of his passing.
