Tag: human smuggling
Five men charged after 700lb ganja bust
(CNS): Five men who were intercepted by the RCIPS Joint Marine Unit in two separate boats last Thursday have been charged with various offences relating to both drug trafficking and human smuggling. Police seized more than 700lbs of ganja after tracking one of the boats to the West Bay shoreline, where it was abandoned near […]
Marine cops net two drug boats
(CNS): The RCIPS Joint Marine Unit (JMU) has seized two boats and an undisclosed quantity of ganja and arrested five men in an operation which began in the early hours of Thursday morning. At about 4:30am on 25 January, the marine officers came across two boats acting suspiciously near the Big Channel entrance to North Sound. […]
Migration key issue for Cayman’s future
(CNS): Two local government officials attended the United Nations Regional Consultative Process on Migration in Belize last week in the first of what is expected to be a collaborative process in the Caribbean to deal with the issue. Michael Ebanks, assistant chief officer in the home affairs ministry, and Christopher Eakin, policy director at immigration, […]
Cops net four more suspected smugglers at sea
(CNS): Four men have been charged with drug smuggling following another police interception off the north coast of Grand Cayman this weekend. Two local men from West Bay and two men from Jamaica were arrested Friday evening when the Joint Marine Unit responded to sighting of a suspicious vessel, spotted by the crew on board […]
Third woman arrested in people smuggling case
(CNS): Another employee from Cayman Airways has been arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into people smuggling. An RCIPS spokesperson said Monday that a third woman from George Town who works for the National Flag Carrier was arrested that afternoon on suspicion of human smuggling. The 30-year-old woman is now in police custody. Cayman […]
CAL suspends staff in smuggling case
(CNS): Two female employees of Cayman Airways Ltd (CAL) who have been arrested in connection with immigration offences relating to people smuggling have been “removed from active duty”, the airline said in a statement Friday. Meanwhile, police have said that the investigation involves foreign nationals who were in Cayman legitimately but “whose departure was facilitated […]
CAL staff arrested for human smuggling
(CNS): Two women who both work for the national flag carrier, Cayman Airways, have been arrested on suspicion of human smuggling, a spokesperson for the RCIPS confirmed Friday. The women, aged 29 and 33 from West Bay and George Town, were arrested Thursday over the alleged immigration offences following a joint operation between the RCIPS and […]
