Cayman’s leaders have joined calls for the community to step up and assist police to help get the recent spike in gun violence under control.
Premier Wayne Panton and Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart urged anyone with information to come forward.
“We have a small group of people involved in this criminal activity, and there are people within our community who they associate with, they live with, they interact with, and there are people who facilitate their activities, people who enable their activities,” Panton said Friday night in a video message.
“As a community, we are better than that and we must be better than that.”
Panton issued the message following two murders this week.
The premier urged the community to remain calm, saying, “I’m asking the community as well to be as intolerant of this kind of activity as we in government are, to be as committed to addressing these concerns and preventing these sorts of needless, painful tragedies from occurring”.
Cayman, he said, has to address the issues and “take this as a position of zero tolerance”.
“We cannot have a place as wonderful as the Cayman Islands with this kind of criminal activity being tolerated,” he added.
In a statement Thursday, the Opposition Leader shared his concern over the recent murders.
“I know that these killings are being taken seriously by the RCIPS, but the public also have a role to play,” he said.
“If you know something about who may have committed the two recent murders, then please call in to the Confidential Tips Line at 947-7777.
“Monetary rewards are available for those who provide credible evidence to the RCIPS leading to the arrest of the perpetrators,” he said in his statement.
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