Man stabbed in throat for $9
(CNS): Updated — In the third serious crime of the day, a victim was stabbed in the throat by a mugger off Boggy Sands Road in West Bay, close to the four way stop late Monday night. Police said that at about 10:40pm on 7 January a report was received that a 60-year-old man, who was around Town Hall Road near the junction of Boggy Sands, had been attacked by two men and robbed of around $9. The victim arrived at West Bay police station bleeding from his throat and reported the crime, which was beleived to have taken place at around 10:30pm. The man, who was on his bicycle at the time, was unable to give descriptions of the suspects or say where they went.
He was assisted by police officers and taken to the hospital in George Town by ambulance, where he underwent emergency surgery and remains in a serious condition.
An RCIPS spokesperson said the matter was now under investigation by Det. Sergeant Morrison of the WB CID and police are still discussing the details of the crime with the victim.
Anyone who may have seen the man on his bike, seen the attack, has any other information or who was in the vicinity after 10pm Monday, 7 January, is asked to call West Bay CID at 949 3999 or Crimestoppers on 800 TIPS.
Category: Crime
That’s steep. I know a guy that will do it for free.
Seriously?? When is the government or rcips ever going to step in and just clear out all of these slums? This is getting way too ridiculous now, we dont need these people on the island. Go around, round em up, send em to a containment facility or deport them from this country. If fidel castro can flush the toilets of cuba on south florida then we should be able to flush ours on some remote atoll or something….just GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE!
I have been informed that the police are keeping a number of attacks in tourist areas secret and this front page lists two serious incidents in tourist areas (one a few hundred yards from the Ritz), it seems Cayman is not a sensible destination for a holiday and other places in the region which provide safe all inclusive facilities are a better bet. I am so glad my friends forwarded me these stories. This sort of news is what needs to be on Trip Advisor.
Please, tourists, stay in your hotel rooms with the doors locked when the sun goes down. Cayman is not safe. Oh, wait, four armed robbers took out a Seven Mile Beach jewellery store before the sun went down, so I guess you tourists should just stay locked up in your rooms for your whole vacation.
Talking to “the bad man”
I recently had a conversation with an unsavory character. He is known to have “made
some mistakes” in his life. We were talking about the recent robberies and stabbing.
He simply said, “we are hungry, this place is just one of the last quiet places, people are
waking up”……..pretty scary stuff.
Police should ask the young men who "hang around" Batabano Plaza all day long, if they know anything!! That Plaza is getting very scary to visit! More police patrols are needed in that area.
This has nothign to do with the stabbing but did anyone read the "unreported" attack on seven mile beach new years day???? Police what is wrong with you, not reporting this??? This could happen to anyone shouldn't you put everyone on alert that three men attacked a couple? How many other attacks have been covered up this is unacceptalbe and again the cayman islands people accept this over and over again. We can blame the previous premier for this one this all goes on the RCIPS just like the missing vehicle..
I read it. It sounds like some one cuddled up to the wrong person.
I agree cause West Bay has gone from West Bay to GUN BAY/ BOM BAY to STABBING BAY! hurtful.
Gun Bay is in East End.
Wonder why no one has heard about the tourist couple that were jumped entering the apartment on 7 mile beach on the 3rd of January….. From what I herd police didn’t show up for an hour an a half…. Not a peep from the police on that one! I know how to cut government spending! Starts with the dead weight in the police force!
That sounds like a crack head move right there.
Krik Free Port Robbery, Liquor Store robbed, Man stabbed for 9 bucks…..Happy New Year, folks!
Seems as if the results of the 2003 cabinet status grants kicking in now.
This is what happens when an elected government seeks to maintain their own personal position by mis-appropriating funds from the public coffers, to give to their supporters.
As soon as the funds dry up, then those with the hand-out mentality will continue to take funds from members of the public through crimes like this.
What a pity that someone is mugged and injured in this fashion, by people who have been taught by their role model/leader to expect to profit and feel that they have a right to take from the toils of another…
No big surprise. This is what you get from the sort of people who sell their votes and their country for a fridge or stove.
or turkey or turtle dinner or Cayman rundown
Ok Mr. Baines, rather than going around threatening people, it's time to step up tot he plate and take action. No more losing or smashing up of police vehicles. It's time to actually do some Police work.
Ok…new Government instead of sitting around doing nothing, bring a bill to the house to reduce some of the heavy taxation you put on us so that the economy can ignite again. It might just be what's need to get you elected again…if that's a remote possibility. People are hurting financially! Our middle class has eroded significantly. Our businesses are failing!
Remember while Nero fiddled, Rome burned!
West bay is turning into a pit! I’ve lived in West bay most of my life but have no intentions of staying….. What’s happening is macs private slush fund is gone and now the unemployed have no other way to get their beer money…. They just sit under what ever tree or beach hit they choose and scheme who they are going to rob!
West Bay is not the beginning and ending of crime in this country. Crime is all over this island just in case you have not noticed. The problem is unemployment of Caymanians which came about as a direct result of the mass status grants of 2003. Oops the chickens have come home to roost and this is not only due to Mr. McKeeva Bush. Rather every single member of the LA in 2003 that voted for the mass status grants should be held responsible for the destruction of this country and I make apologies to none.
The only MLAs that "voted" for the status grants were members of McKeeva's Cabinet – Frank McField, Roy Bodden, Gilbert McLean and Juliana O'Connor Connolly.
Every single member of the LA in 2003 voted for the mass status grants, now that the mess has hit the fan don't blame a few. Not a single member tried to stop it or do anything about it. The sins of omission is worst than the sins of of commission.
That is absolutely false. The 2003 status grants were secret CABINET grants. Cabinet ALONE had the power to make those grants. They were never voted on by the legislative assembly. When the PPM were in office in 2005-2009 they changed the law so that the number of such grants were limited to 4 per year and they had to be approved by the LA.
http://compasscayman.com/caycompass/2005/07/26/Status-law-changed/
Do not try to distort the record on this.
And in any event it is a ridiculous to talk about the sins of omission being "worst" than the sins of commission. On which planet?
If I hear the words ‘unemployment, Caymanians, mass status grants 2003’ touted one more time as an excuse for either being too unqualified, too dumb or too lazy too actually apply for a job in a market where it is financially advantageous for an employer to hire an indigenous peron ……….get over it please, it does nott cut it anymore.
Not sure about you, but when I was unemployed I went out job hunting every day not robbing and stabbing. I "beat" the sidewalk with my resume until I found 3 jobsto make up the salary of the one job that I lost and kept at those 3 crappy jobs until I found a job again in my field. I would not have even thought about robbery as I was too busy working to keep up with my morgage payments.
Amazing that the elected members of West Bay all seem silent on the large problem of drug addiction and related crime that is taking over the district. The people who are not using or selling drugs are becoming minorities.
Turning? Where have you been for the past 10-15 years???
George Town, East End & Bodden Town are no better. Read about it. Don't point fingers and ignore whats going on in your own back yard my freind.
Incients happen in BoddenTown, but most of them are commited by scumbags from other districts. We know most of our culprits and will turn them in. Anyone who knows of a crime, should make a report, although, there are times the police are the ones who let the cat out of the bag.
I love inter-district argie-bargie on CNS, since it makes Cayman seem so petty and narrow minded. In any real place in the world these "districts" would all be considered part of one small town. But here we get a development in George Town, all of 10 minutes from Bodden Town and the response is "What good will it do Bodden Town?"
That's plainly not true.
Or so you would like to think. I wish it wasn't true.
West Bay is turning into a pit!!??? West bay has bever been a PIT!!!!!!! It holds the wickedess set of people in the cayman Islands, not one day you pick up a news paper that you don't fine a West Bay man or woman was arrested, shameful to the Cayman Islands, by the way I am a born Caymanian that calls it like I see It!
"I call it like I see it". Well you must be blind if you can't see whats happening in the other districts. I guess you only read the news when pertains to something negative about West Bay and ignore everything else.
Pray for these islands!
Cos that solves all the world's problems…
I would if I knew that it actually helped.
I talked to an invisible imaginary person once too. I'm pretty sure he ate my lunch while I wasn't looking.
That is exactly the mentality that got you in this mess.
Stick your head in the sand and pray.
They know who they are, just go and arrest them. Low-life’s.
If this continues,the population that are not willing to accept serious crime will just leave. Cayman then just starts moving towards being a poorer Caribbean people and country, ripe for UK governmental takeover.
Please, UK government please come and take over this country, this place has gone to ruin. We need a firm hand to set this country back in place. There is no accountable, anyone can come in here and do as they like as long as the "Established Caymanians" can hob nob with people that don't like them anyway at so called cocktail parties. The UK don't need to hob nob with anyone or take bribes so I want direct rule to get this ship off the rock.
It sonds like Cayman needs the UK government to step in! Cayman needs help and nothing seems to be getting done at the moment!
I don't believe for one minute that the latest wave of crime is a coincidence. Let's think for one minute who may benefit from having fear spread in the country and making the country look bad?
Conspiracy theories are very entertaining, but this was just a matter of the guy being in the wrong place at the wrong time…..I mean risk it all for $9? I am betting the muggers were hoping for a bigger haul that $9…..
Only the Martians can benefit from the destruction of this country. Crime does not happen in a vacum, unemployment and hopelessness are direct results of crime. Cayman need to get its act together stop importing poverty and the crime will stop.
Crime is down, the figures are up because people trust us more an report all offences now. Move on Nothing to see here.
Can we assume that your 3 posts were tongue in cheek?
More like 'brain-in-toilet'.