Cayman Islands: The RCIPS partners with PoCs to strengthen customer service and management skills across the service
From RCIPS The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the Portfolio of the Civil Service to provide learning and development opportunities to its officers and civilian staff in the areas of customer…
Dogs attack armed Cayman Islands Police Officer during Warrant Operation on 29 July; Dog Wounded in Leg
From RCIPS Around 5PM on Saturday, 29 July, armed officers were in the Boatswain Bay area of West Bay making checks to locate a man wanted on a court-issued warrant. While one of the officers was leaving the man’s residence,…
TCI: DPP under investigation
By John Toner From Turks and Caicos Weekly News TCI’s top prosecutor is under investigation by the Integrity Commission. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has admitted that an investigation is ongoing but the man in charge,…
Cayman Islands: Woodman receives time served
From Peter Polack Andre Woodman who had been charged in November 2013 by the police with a number of drug charges after police raided a house in Northward and seized drug paraphernalia, scales, bags, 10 ounces of ganja and almost…
A Review of Cayman Islands DPP Statement on the Pines
By Peter Polack The recent and rare statement issued by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) came more in the form of an extract from the UK Crown Prosecution Service manual than a believable explanation to the…
The Editor Speaks: Inequality? People pining for justice! Prosecutors make statement.
The strange case of The Pines. Sue Nicholson was the manager of The Pines Retirement Home and was fired in 2013 when it was discovered around $300,000 was missing. Nicholson quickly disappeared and was thought to have returned to the…
The Editor Speaks: JP’s, gun control, the Commissioner and a lawyer
Let’s start with the lawyer to untangle this mixed bag, as he is the string that ties all this together. The lawyer is Peter Polack who has been trying with great patience to get answers from the authorities, mainly the…
The Editor Speaks: Why the law costs so much
After reading the high costs to this country of outside lawyers the Attorney General’s Chambers and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) have engaged, even though both these offices employ “an army” of high paid lawyers themselves…