Crime falls, but burglaries still a concern
Crime in the Cayman Islands fell by 20.33% in the first six months of 2013 – but burglary is bucking the trend and is still causing a concern. Serious crimes have fallen by 6.09% and volume crimes by 26.97%. Almost…
Prison intercepts weekend contraband
Officials at Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands Prison Northward last weekend recovered a parcel containing a BlackBerry cellphone and charger, a box of smoking papers, and almost five ounces of vegetable matter resembling ganja. They are working to identify the person…
Leaders from United Nations, Caricom, discuss Haiti, development, drugs at meeting
By Aaron Morrison, special to The Miami Herald UNITED NATIONS — Officials from the United Nations and the Caribbean said at a biannual meeting on Tuesday (23) that they had made progress on a number of issues of regional interest,…
Coast Guard offloads $35 Million in cocaine in Florida
From CBS News A high-speed chase played out like a movie scene in the Caribbean Sea this week and the load of cocaine was brought to Miami Saturday morning. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter hunted down a boat carrying the…
iNews Briefs
Emergency landing at Owen Roberts All roads around Cayman Islands Owen Roberts Airport were blocked last Thursday (18) afternoon as a cargo plane chartered by Cayman Airways made an emergency landing. The plane landed safely with no injuries. No details…
Debt-ridden Caribbean unable to resist drug traffickers
By Robin Wigglesworth in London From Financial Times The Caribbean is again becoming an increasingly important transit route for drug-trafficking into the US as South American and Mexican drug cartels take advantage of the region’s economic problems to re-establish their…
Six Trinidad police officers to stand trial for murder
From Caribbean 360 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Monday July 15, 2013 – A magistrate court Monday ordered that six police officers implicated in the murder of three civilians in 2011 be committed to stand trial. Senior Magistrate Debra Quintyne sitting in the…
Ramoon found guilty of wounding sentenced to eight years incarceration
Justin D’Angelo Ramoon (21), the George Town man, appearing in the Grand Court a second time, charged with the attempted murder of Andrew Lopez on 25th August 2012 (see iNews story July 17 2013 “Second trial for man accused of…
Missing Guyanese National : woman in court
Karli Rankin was in the Magistrate’s Court last Monday (15) charged with offences related to the disappearance of 31-year-old Hemerson Gonzalez who was last seen around 5:30pm on 11 December 2012. Gonzalez, a Guyanese national, was staying with Rankin at…
Was Belizean born in the Cayman Islands or not?
That is the question that is being raised by Attorney for Deon Bruce who is awaiting extradition to the United States for charges including murder. Read on: Young Belizean detained pending extradition to the US From Love FM Last night…
