Gunrunning Caymanian gets nearly 4 years jail in USA
Michael Brandon Leslie, from the Cayman Islands, has been sentenced to 46months imprisonment in the USA after pleading guilty to gunrunning, plus a three-year term of supervised release. Leslie was one of six defendants charged with gunrunning between the Cayman…
Governor reappoints Commissioner of Police
The Governor has given a new contract to David Baines as Commissioner of Police, to run for four years from 1 June 2013, when his current contract expires. The Governor commented: “I am delighted that David Baines has accepted a…
iNews briefs
Prisoner sets fire in his cell On Friday (27) around midnight government officials confirmed via a Government Information Services (GIS) release on Tuesday (30) that they were forced to deal with a minor fire after lockdown in the prison’s high…
PWD conducts shuttering exercise
Members of the public are advised that the Public Works Department (PWD) and the National Roads Authority (NRA) will carry out their annual hurricane preparedness exercise on Thursday May 2, 2013. As part of the exercise PWD and the NRA…
RCIPS recover 2nd major Brac cocaine haul
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) have recovered another huge haul of what is believed to be cocaine on Cayman Brac on the south side of the island. The haul consists of the same size packages that washed up…
Bridger replies to Evans’ statement to Met and Evans shoots back
Further to our story in iNews Cayman posted on April 23 2013 “Bridger and Kernohan claim Jack misled them and Evans refutes Bridger’s claims” at http://www.ieyenews.com/2013/04/bridger-and-kernohan-claim-jack-misled-them-and-evans-refutes-bridgers-claims/ Martin Bridger has now replied to the statement contained in the above from John…
Joey Ebanks now charged with drug offences
To add to Joey Ebanks long list of charges of: 8 counts of obtaining property by deception 7 counts of theft 1 count of obtaining a money transfer by deception 1 count of transferring criminal property 9 counts of making…
Trustee in Madoff fraud loses court ruling
From Business Day The trustee seeking money for victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme was barred on Monday from blocking a $410 million settlement resolving New York State’s claims against a hedge fund manager, J. Ezra Merkin, who…
Convicted killer wins appeal and will be deported back to Jamaica
Collin (Sheldon) Ovid Scott (41), a Jamaican national who was convicted of killing his girlfriend when she told him she was leaving him had his sentence reduced by Cayman’s court of appeal last week. Scott had pleaded guilty to manslaughter…
Robbery- Video Center- George Town
Received Wed April 24 2013 at 12:06pm At approximately 8.50pm onTuesday 23 April a lone gun man entered the video center on Shedden Road George Town, where he pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the female sales clerk…






