Vandals defaced or damaged six signs on Cayman Brac over the Christmas holidays.
Sergeant Ashton Ferguson of the Cayman Brac police said the signs were discovered vandalised between 26-30 December.
He said authorities were not sure if the damage to the signs was done by the same person.
“The signs were widely spread in terms of area. They weren’t confined to a little area. We don’t think it was done by the same individual, though there could have been communication between the people who did it,” he said.
In most cases, paint had been sprayed on the signs, while a sign on a perimeter fence of the airport had been smashed to pieces.
A large road-safety sign erected by the Lions and Leo Clubs of Cayman Brac last March advising drivers not to speed was also defaced and has been taken down.
Lions Club of Cayman Brac member Kevin Roberts said some club members found the defacement of the $400 sign on Rock Road on the western part of the island “demoralising”.
“The message on the sign was spray painted out,” Mr. Roberts said. “We took it down. We’re trying to see if the sign makers, D-Signs on Grand Cayman, can repair it. There’s a protective layer over it, so we’re going to see what can be done and if we can get it back up.”
The sign was one of several erected throughout the Brac bearing slogans devised by local high school children to help raise awareness of road safety on the island.
Anyone with information regarding the defacement of the signs should contact the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service in Cayman Brac at 948-0331 or the confidential Crime Stoppers number 800-8477 (TIPS).
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This is what happens when money talks… Caymanians let these people in who are trying to destroy the island… As they did with the Cubans back in the day… Send them back. STOP destroying the islands!
Perhaps someone in the liquor sales business is behind this? road safety means No drinking and driving.
Obviously there is a dangerous evil eye or element present in these Islands that vows to see our people get killed and in harms way.
Lawmakers in Cayman Brac and Grand Cayman must take this sign vandalism very serious as it means possible loss of life if signs are distorted and destroyed.
HEAVY FINES AND DEFINITELY A CUSTODIAL SENTENCE
‘M U S T BE THE OUTCOME. No one can walk free where they endanger a life. This is contribution to manslaughter.