The fact that the majority of them are found is astounding.
So far this year 92 people have been reported missing to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. All but two have been found – Kerran Baker and Anna Evans. We can assume that the four missing boaters from January have been lost at sea.
We have some empathy with the police service in the way they have to handle missing person cases.
Occasionally the staff at the Caymanian Compass is informed that someone is missing, and not necessarily by the police.
We, like the police, have to do some heavy weighing on our decision whether to publish that person’s photo or hold off.
The decision to publish or hold off is made because we know, just as the police do, that the majority of missing persons cases are resolved within 24 hours. It is a fine balancing act. Like the police, if the missing person is a very young child we are more likely to immediately post the photo and information on our website at caycompass.com as well as carry it in our next available daily print newspaper.
In all cases of missing persons that the police and the Caymanian Compass deems necessary to put into the public domain, we work together in hopes of positive outcomes in all cases.
It is this continued cooperation with police that is needed to now help find Kerran Baker and Anna Evans, and, if they can’t be found, to bring to justice the perpetrators of their demise, if that is the case.
We have far too many missing persons reported in the Cayman Islands. For those youngsters disappearing from home, we implore parents to pay more attention to your children’s whereabouts, their friends and their activities.
The police are to be commended for solving the vast amounts of missing persons cases that they do. With the help of parents and guardians some of those numbers can decrease, leaving police time to take care of other crime issues facing our Cayman Islands.
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I interpret this police ‘missing persons’ report as a total cop-out and attempt to cover up the fact that the RCIPS has not conducted any kind of effective investigation beyond a ‘search’ for a missing person who has ultimately not been found…for the RCIPS..end of the matter.
And this is the second Jamaican-origin female who has gone mysteriously ‘missing’ in less than 6 months.
The only two true ‘missing person’ cases this year in Cayman have been denied proper categorization and delayed investigation as ‘persons missing under suspicious circumstances’ which should have triggered criminal investigations immediately.
Until now, neither of these missing persons have been deemed as persons missing due to a crime being committed and thus any crime committed against them will never be properly investigated or solved unless someone hands the information to the RCIPS on a platter.
Of these ‘vast number of missing persons’, the majority of them were never truly missing in the first place so how can Caycompass praise the police for solving cases that never existed ?
I would again advice people living in Cayman to be very careful to look out for their own safety and security personally.