Tag: violent crime
Man attacked in Brac bar by gang of four
(CNS): Three teenagers and a 24-year-old man have been arrested following an assault last Friday night on a 40-year-old man who was working at La Esperanza bar on Cayman Brac. Police said that just after 9:00pm on 22 April, the employee at the bar was physically assaulted on the premises by two boys, aged 15 […]
Second man charged in Rum Point robbery
(CNS): A 24-year-old man from West Bay had been charged with handling stolen goods in connection with a North Side robbery in January in which the robber punched an elderly victim, who was sitting on his porch with his wife and helper. Following a reward for more information regarding the case, in which one man […]
Jury opts for least serious charge in knife attack
(CNS): A jury of three men and four women took less than three hours to find David Bodden not guilty of attempted murder or grievous bodily harm (GBH) but instead found him guilty of the lesser charge of unlawful wounding in relation to a daylight knife attack on Blake Barrell. After a morning of summing […]
Gunman smashes window to get at parked driver
(CNS): A 38-year-old man was treated at the Cayman Islands Hospital for injuries after being assaulted by a gunman early Sunday morning in George Town. Police said the man was sitting in his white Honda Civic when a man reportedly armed with a handgun smashed the car window and attacked the victim. The motive for the attack […]
Police arrest one over Christmas Eve assault
(CNS): A 26-year-old man from Bodden Town is likely to be spending New Year’s Eve in the police lock-up following his arrest in connection with an assault on Christmas Eve in the district. The police and emergency services received a call about the incident around 10pm on 24 December after a man received a serious […]
Cops called to Christmas fights
(CNS): Three men were taken to hospital this weekend after two separate fights involving machetes. On Christmas Eve a man in Bodden Town was badly injured when he was chopped with a machete during a fight at a bar, and on Christmas Day one man was hit in the face with a block and another […]
Fights erupt outside 7MB nightclub, teen injured
(CNS): One woman was injured and taken to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning (5 December) after multiple fights broke out in the parking lot of the Nectar Bar and nightclub in Seven Mile Shops, along the West Bay Road. The location is becoming an increasingly troublesome spot after a number of weekend […]
Men deny GBH allegations over bar fight
(CNS): Two men from Bodden Town pleaded not guilty to grievous bodily harm charges on Friday in connection with a fight in a bar in which the victim lost an eye. Eatton Brown and Odain Ebanks denied causing GBH to the complainant during a fight at the Eveglow Bar in Bodden Town earlier this year. […]
Cops arrest 63-year-old over GT stabbing
(CNS): A George Town man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing outside a bar in the capital in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police said that the injured man was found lying on the street behind the Globe Bar on Martin Drive in George Town at around 1:45am yesterday (13 September). When […]
East End man charged in machete assualt
(CNS): Jamal Rankine (22) from East End was due to appear in court on Monday after he was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of an offensive weapon in connection with a fight on a George Town beach in the early hours of Friday morning. Rankine is accused of chopping another man […]
Cops arrest attempted murder suspect
(CNS): A 22-year-old man from East End has been arrested by police on suspicion of attempted murder following a fight on the beach in the early hours of Friday morning. Police were called to a disturbance on the beach in front of Snooze Lane, George Town, at about 2:25am in which a 25-year-old man received […]
