Visitor assaulted on 7MB
(CNS): While details are sparse, the RCIPS has said it is investigating a report of an assault on a visitor that occurred just before midnight last night (Wednesday 19 January) on Seven Mile Beach adjacent to Calico Jacks. Police say that a 21-year-old man from the US was conveyed to George Town Hospital where he is being treated for his injuries, which are not thought to be life threatening. Police are asking anyone who was in the area or at Calico Jacks at the time is asked to contact the CID at George Town.
CNS will update when more details are known.
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@cns: can we get an update on the details surrounding this story? Put some preasure on the rcips. Was it a fight? robbery? All this is important information for the public to know.
It is hard to comment on the criminal elements, when all seems to be asleep, or turning a blind eye on the situation at hand. Very soon we are going to look back and wish that more efforts had been placed there. If we are not quick about dealing with these ills, it will be like the drugs that have timely creep in to the Island – What can be done about it?? nothing!
I see many tourists on the dive boat and warn the young people who might be going out for drinks to watch themselves that there are local gangsters who carry weapons and will think nothing to use them.
The pathetic macho mentality with guns and knives will turn people away and the warning has been given for years.
It is only a matter of time before a tourist is killed. Look what happened in Aruba with the Halloway young woman…
I think before jumping to conclusions we should wait for the full story to come out as for all we know this could just be a drunk tourist causing a fight a bar as it was outside a bar… Just saying we don’t know who is at fault until we know what happened…
Wake up, Cayman. Tourists are not coming back until you clean up the crime problem. You are known as an unsafe, crime-ridden island. Why should anyone visit? Time to get your act together!
Unfortunately, the Commissioner seems to believe in reaction rather than prevention.
It is clear that this approach does not appear to work.
Police needs to check out suspicious looking characters and leave everyone with the impression that they (the police) could be anywhere at any given moment, ready to haul people to the station.
If they would just start checking on people randomly, I am sure they soon would be VERY familiar with certain trouble makers who are still flying under the radar.
This is not something I like to hear. Up until now, most of your crime was among the locals, and those of us in the US are used to that. kind of behavior. This recent attack on a tourist is going to be very detrimental to your efforts to attract visitors. Too bad, because you had a nice place at one time.
TC29…..why are trying to make it sound as though a local is responsible….I was at the location when the incident happened…and it was not a native local that was involved. By the way, just because you are a visitor, it does not give you all rights to make "liquid courage" cause you to put your hands on someone.
Sounds like you have information you should pass on to the RCIP to assist them in their investigation and more importantly help Cayman. I’m not sure what situation was but there is reference in stories to more than one a assailant and at least one with a knife. In my opinion if these are in deed facts the assailants were cowards who cannot fight a battle like men.
Right, it’s the tourists own fault he got stabbed. He should have known that if you get into a ruckus near a bar on SMB you may well get stabbed.
All I am going to say is Dog has no business in Cat fight.
The Commissioner of Police will follow his failed policies to the detriment of the Cayman Islands. smh
We need more details on this ! Was this person involved in a fight before / causing trouble / just run in from the Jungle Bar etc
I’m not saying its OK that this can happen to anyone but I would like to have a little deeper understanding of the crime before imposing a curfew on my family.
I like to think I am safe around Calico’s and generally in most places in Cayman – but you can always find trouble if you are looking for it, or up to something.
HA! To "The current Premier is also"……
"We need political leaders that will take on the criminal element not pamper them and cater to them. Enough is enough. McKeeva must go".
Come out of the hole you in and run for the next term of office and see how much you get done with this bunch of CAYMANIAN "want to be gangsters" (Robbers and Drug dealers) you go out there and fight them your self, and lets see what results you would get.(Cause it seems thats what you would like the Premier to do) Grow up people this Island is %^&*ed no matter who runs it……. But my hands clap for Mr. McKeeva Bush is trying his best and doing a damn good job as he has been doing for the last how many terms, Father of the house. I repect you. MDUD SAS.
By the way Mr. Premier, Happy Birthday (today).
Unbelievable, now you can’t even take a stroll down Seven Mile Beach. What will it take for the RCIPS to start doing what’s needed to take this Island back from these thugs ? I truly believe that they are more afraid of these guys than the thugs are afraid of RCIPS. The Cops in Cayman seems to work only in a reactive state just investigating crimes after the fact with no ideas of how to be proactive against Crime. This was a tourist from the US so I’m sure this will soon hit the US News this evening and send a lot people running to other places for vacation.
Come on RCIPS, it’s your jobs to protect the people, please start acting like you can actually do it and stop running from these lowlifes like a bunch of Keystone Cops. But I guess understand, you probably wouldn’t if you had the means to even protect yourself.
I think at this point it’s only fair to start warning people of the dangers lurking around the corners in Grand Cayman. I have been seeing quite a bit of warnings on Travel Sites like this one from Travelosity.
Question;
With the recent wave of crime in Grand Cayman, is it still safe for tourists?
There’s been a lot of news about recent gang violence in West Bay and Georgetown. While we’re planning on staying on the North Side of the island, we’re a bit concerned since we have 2 young children with us and most of the attractions are in West Bay or Georgetown.
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We’re looking to fly non-stop out of Tampa Airport. So there are only 2 locations in Caribbean you can get to from TPA, one is Puerto Rico, the other is the Cayman Islands. Been to Puerto Rico many times, thus the reason we’re looking into Cayman Islands. So the question still stands.
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Personally, I would avoid any island with high crime. Why go there when there are dozens of Caribbean islands? Jamaica, Sint Maarten/St Martin, now Cayman. Avoid them until they clean up their crime problem. My two cents.
Agree NJ2-
Why should us Americans spend $5k to visit Cayman, when all we have to do is go to any major US city?
I’m heading in the other direction now.Maine is cleaner, cheaper, and no TSA to deal with at the airport.
Grand Cayman is now just like everywhere else when it used to be known as a very safe place. There really has been a marked change in the last couple of years. Leaving a bar and planning on taking that rather pleasant walk home? Don’t bother. Take a taxi. If you think a taxi is expensive, think of the hospital charges when the inevitable happens. Budget the cost of a taxi into your night out. This instance may have been an altercation that started in a bar or it may have been a random attack, but no matter the circumstances, it simply is no longer as safe as it was.
I had the pleasure of having rocks thrown at me near Royal Palms from the new path on the Dart side of the road a couple of weeks ago while minding my own business walking home from a night out (same place I was relieved of my wallet previously as well – thanks chaps, I really enjoyed the hassle of replacing all my cards and especially my Cayman driving license). Going by the rocks/marks on the road i saw slightly further up the road the next day when i went to get some pictures I wasn’t the only one that weekend. Sad thing is it seems to be young men who know they can get away with this kind of nonsense and it appears they are now roaming the streets at night looking to have some ‘fun’. Sorry RCIPS, but you are going to have to increase your late night patrols along west bay road or someone is going to get killed. If you see a group of guys hanging around a street late at night, harrass them until they go on somehwere else or go home (where they should be going anyway, especially after closing hours). They might not be up to anything, but if it stops one attack, its worth it. And frankly if it isn’t stopped, before long someone is going to round up their mates and take matters into their own hands which helps nobody.
Tragic.
Thank goodness he was not killed during this incident BUT will still go home and tell everyone how things could have been worse.Mr.Premier when are you going to address this mounting problem????????It will only take ONE death of a visitor to these islands and your recovery plan will be set back 20 yrs.Time to get your hands dirty and get with the problem.Hopefully this is not the start of something far worse for us all.
Great! just keep asking and waiting for the great Premeir to change everything he stands for and listen to any one but himself. Meanwhile Grand Cayman is reverting back to the days when pirates, thieves and murderers found safe haven here.
Dont worry Mr Dart will sought it out.
This is horrible, when are these so called politicans gonna start addressing the real problems of this country. Crime is OUT OF CONTROL among many other aspects of this country. And all we can hear on the news and read in the papers is that they are working on things. Show some real interest in this country and stop going on about pitty stuff and try and work as a Government instead of blaming each other about issues. You where elected to serve the people of this country not yourselves, start proving yourselves. Enough is enough, get with the it politicans or move aside so that some others can try and start resolving and fixing the mess that you all have craeted over the last 20 years. I know as a registered voter I won’t be wasting my precious time and energy to place any votes for any politican come the next general election. You all are just here for yourselves not this beloved country or me. I you wnat my vote next election you will have to earn it. So sad to see what these politicans are doing and keep doing to this country.
You should all resign and move on. A concerned Caymanian citizen.
I think the Polis or new owner Dart should look in the Courtyard Marriott Bar on the beach as that is home to squatters…place stinks of urine and there is trash everywhere…I saw some people taking shelter there over the holidays and I think that should be dealt with as that is right in Tourist Central.
Maybe this is just and I hope will be the wakeup call for Cayman. If this man goes back and post in the media that Cayman is unsafe then you best know that the US will place Cayman as a dangerous place for its citizens. What I don’t get is the lack of leadership from the politicians and RCIPS. We have got a serious problem on our hands and trust me the day a tourist is murdered Cayman will be dommed for good as what has happened to other islands. I pray that the young man makes a speedy and healthy recovery and they catch the offenders.
Mac, I plead that you start paying closer attention to what is occuring and stop beating around the bush and looking for investors and sort out Cayman and especially West Bay. Any country that neglects the security of its people will be faced with violence. Mr. Baines, I’m sorry but you have failed andwe need a more experienced and tougher man at the top, no more coffee and biscuits officers. I live in Switzerland and trust me you won’t find a safer and more secured country to live and who don’t tolerate any level of crime. If you are an expat here you commit a crime and you’re sent back home, no wasting of tax payers money like in Cayman.
Start protecting our borders and bring in the UK Army & Navy, US Coast Guards and use tankers and all means necessary to get rid of crime. Cayman is in a rapid decline and if we’re not careful will be an outlaw land. I ask the residents to push to get rid of the Chief Justice and Attorney General XXX who are responsible for the penal system which is in dire need of an overhaul and security of Cayman. David Ritch should be the Attorney General and then you’ll see things get done.
Blessings to all.
The current Premier is also the Minister for Tourism and for Finance. Both of these industries are threatened by the crime wave that the Premier will not even talk about let alone due anything about.
We need political leaders that will take on the criminal element not pamper them and cater to them. Enough is enough. McKeeva must go.