Tag: missing vessel
Missing boat returns to Little Cayman
(CNS) UPDATE Friday 10:43am: The RCIPS has now confirmed that the vessel and crew that were reported to be in distress Thursday morning are safe. A search and rescue operation was launched yesterday when the boat could not be located. However, police have now confirmed that it ran aground on the reef near the Hungry […]
Bush found alive in Honduras, police confirm
(CNS): The police have now confirmed reports that Thomas Bush (30) from North Side, who was reported missing at sea more than four weeks ago, has been found alive in Honduras. Bush is now in Guanaja, Honduras after having been rescued at sea and was said to be in good health but police have not […]
North Side man missing at sea for a week
(CNS): Thomas Owen Robert Bush (30) of North Side has been reported missing, having gone out to sea in a 28ft canoe a week ago, on Wednesday 25 October, with an unidentified second man. He was reported missing yesterday evening but there are few details about where he was going or who he was with. […]
Police continue inquiry over missing men
(CNS): Police said that investigators are continuing their inquiries into the case of two men who have been missing for more than two weeks after setting out on a fishing trip to 60 Mile Bank. Chadwick Bodden and Edward Henricks-Hydes have not been seen since they left Grand Cayman on Friday, 23 June, aboard a blue […]
Local men reported missing at sea
(CNS): Two local men who set off on a fishing trip to 60 Mile Bank more than one week ago failed to return home on the expected date, police said this weekend. Chadwick Bodden (39) and Edward Henricks-Hydes (38), a.k.a. Edward Rivers, set off on the trip on Friday 23 June and have not been seen since. They were […]
No sign of missing men aboard 20ft boat
(CNS): Four men who are believed to have left Cayman almost one week ago on a 20-foot Wellcraft boat from North West Point are still missing, police have confirmed. Carl Demmie Ebanks (59), Migeal Aedran Palmer (40) and two other unidentified men who are believed to be Jamaican did not notify the Port Authority before […]
Four men missing at sea for 4 days
(CNS): A local man and three Jamaicans were reported missing on Saturday some three days after they left Cayman on an 18-foot boat. The RCIPS said they received information that the group could be missing at sea and might have encountered difficulties after leaving on 22 June. Demmie Ebanks (59) from West Bay and Michael Aedrian Palmer (40), […]
Cops & 911 find no trace of alleged early calls
(CNS): Claims made Friday by relatives of the two boys and three men now presumed lost at sea that they called 911 long before midnight on the night their loved ones did not return home have been refuted by the police and the emergency call centre. Screenshots given to other media appear to show 911 […]
Search moves to recovery operation
(CNS): After searching almost 2,000 square miles of ocean with no sign of survivors, officials confirmed Friday evening that the RCIPS coordinated search and rescue operation had been declared a recovery. The search for 9-year-old Kanyi and 11-year-old Kamron Brown, their uncle Gary Mullings, Edsell Haylock and Nicholas Watler began on Monday morning, 7 March, after the […]
Blame governments, not cops
Anonymous writes: The truth of the matter is that Cayman does not have a real ocean search and rescue helicopter that can handle a combination of high winds, rain, darkness, rough seas and elongated time in the air. It is both the UK and Cayman Islands Governments, not the RCIPS, that needs to be blamed. If […]
Governor to investigate search operation
(CNS): As criticisms of the police over the search and rescue operation for two children and three men missing at sea continued, the Cayman Islands governor announced Thursday that she was carrying out an independent review at the request of the police commissioner. Her announcement came just hours after the opposition leader filed a private member’s motion calling on government […]
