Cayman Brac’s eye-in-the-sky crimefighting technology has been given a $190,000 boost with 21 new CCTV cameras in seven strategic locations.
The cameras, which are part of the National CCTV Development Programme, were installed in a bid to cut crime and increase public safety.
Nickolas DaCosta, the district administration and home affairs minister, said, “The programme acts as a force multiplier for first responders and a confidence boost for residents and businesses.”
The Brac cameras will mean better coverage of priority public spaces, intelligence-led monitoring, better operational support for police and other emergency services and real-time footage to help with incident management.
Police on the Sister Island earlier had limited surveillance capabilities and had to rely on traditional patrols and “reactive camera resources from individual agencies”.
‘Regional model’
Sean Vasquez, the director for the Department of Public Safety Communications, said, “Our goal now is to position the Cayman Islands as a regional model for modern, standards-based, public safety video systems.
“What we’ve done in Cayman Brac shows exactly that. Disciplined execution with clear benefits to the community.”
Lisa Malice, acting deputy chief officer and the ministry lead for the public safety communications department, added that the Brac work was an “early delivery” on the coalition government’s 2026 public safety priorities.
She said, “We’re moving from plan to practice, standardising the technology and deepening emergency coordination so the 2026 agenda begins with momentum.
“Delivering now means communities see the benefits sooner – stronger transparency, smarter coordinated response and reliable infrastructure the public can trust.”
The new cameras, which went live last month, are at Watering Place Road, the junction of Bight and Bluff Roads, Dennis Foster Road, the Royal Palm Drive and Bonita Crescent junction.
More were installed at West Side Road and Track Road, West Road and Church Road and Gerrard Smith Avenue and South Side Road.
Brac crime crackdown
The Brac expansion was developed in partnership with the police, Customs and Border Control, telecoms firm Flow, Sister Islands utility firm Island Energy and The Security Centre.
The news came after ex-premier and Cayman Brac MP Juliana O’Connor-Connolly told Commissioner of Police Kurt Walton at a meeting of Parliament’s Finance Committee last month that Brackers were concerned about increased drug use, “aggressiveness and prevalence of guns associated with it”.
She added that drug dealers on the island could be seen walking around with guns in their waistbands, that they were “not afraid to intimidate people”, and appealed for police action to tackle the problem.
Walton, who pledged a crackdown, told O’Connor-Connolly, “I’m surprised to hear we have people walking around with guns at their waist. That, I’m really concerned about.”
He added that he had previously noted that there was an “insatiable appetite” for guns that he took “very seriously”, and he promised action.
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What kind of dystopian state is Brac living in. Soon they will have a CCTV building like China and monitor all citizen. I’m not against that. That would be good if Cayman has some accountability with its laws. For starters, they could use CCTV to catch speeding drivers.
Everyday I say Cayman government shifts more and more like China but the thing is, they aren’t implementing communism properly. If they were, they would fix the transportation system and install a monorail or bus lines that work.