Police: Shot fired in GT robbery

Caymanians, please stay in yor homes and keep the doors locked, it’s no long safe to go outside.What a shame when you can’t even sit outside your own home. But don’t worry this isn’t Caymans greatest threat, don’t let that road get moved or that new dump built…

It’s starting to escalate!

Soon no shots fired, no one hurt will not be the mantra of the day anymore.

Perhaps after many people have been shot, those that have no criminal records, will finally have the right to defend themselves.

Then again…..those that make the laws aren’t the ones being shot at. And those that make the laws are allowed to own firearms.

So double standard all around.

Big Berd

This ain’t just a matter of double standards; it goes much deeper than that.

The historical problem is that too few of Cayman’s citizens have done too little to educate and protect themselves from abuse of authority…so now, authority is abusing them because they can do nothing about it.

Read the related stories on the police and prison systems in Cayman and see where your problem actually lies…read the personal experience stories and see the evidence of it.

In truth, the British and Caymanian authorities that continue to neither grant Cayman’s residents the means to protect themselves or provide more protection for them…

Are only continuing the ingrained culture of abuse of authority…and the citizens who fall under it.

Historically, the only way to fight this abuse of authority is for the civilian population to politically organise themselves in associations or bodies that the authorities will have to pay attention to…

And, in this respect, is where Cayman’s population have miserably failed ITSELF….

No lessons have been learned from other countries and populations who have come to realise that collective security by legal association and lobbying is the only effective way to fight the abuse of power and authority….

All other individual efforts and complaints will only fall on deaf ears.

At NJ2Cay –

Cayman better watch that we dont become violent like whats going on in Jamaica. Hopefully, the new road and the new dump being built will make everything alright. 😉

Just to clear up the confusion my remarks about the Road and dump were meant to be sarcastic. I find it incredible that you never hear people or the CIG rallying together to help fight the rising crime. It seems to be a non-issue to most people. People can have meetings about things like new developments and foreign investors, the current government as well as the opposition and independents can complain about development deals and potential criminal actively involving people they are soon to be running against for the big job but I haven’t heard one of them yet offer any ideas or even voice concerns about the crime on the streets. It just goes to show were these politicians priorities lay.

Who cares about a road being moved so people can’t see the water when you can’t safely walk down that road.

Apprentice, Cayman being violent like Jamaica as well as New Jersey will come sooner than some may think folks always ignore these types of issues until it’s too late. A criminal element running around with no fear of the law is the biggest problem Cayman has right now. Even if there are new developments and new jobs created there will be a lot of people that find it easier and more profitable to be outlaws than to hold a 9 to 5, the attitude will be why work when I can just take what I want from someone else and get away with it.

A wolf in a sheep’s den finds it easy to what he does best, prey on the innocent

firery, the Caymanian elite is scare of the people coming together and being able to boycot businesses and the banking industry. They are scared of losing money, and money talks to them. That is the only thing they hear. They do not listen to the people. It is all about profit for them.

I remember one time we were starting a Labor Union, but that never happen in Cayman due to certain politicians.

The Uk colonial powers want to maintain control over the inhabitants of these islands. They do not want the people to be more powerful than them. So they ensure that the civil service is very large, including the police force, in order to have that control, and they also ensure that no organization such as a Union be formed in the Cayman Islands. To own a gun certain criteria of redtape has to be made. Of course, no one with convictions should have one, but they make it hard (by their rules) for a decent citizen to own one.

The colonial powers sat by and watched our MLAs implement over 200 CCTV camaras all over the island… not just to fight crime, but the camaras will become useful in them controlling the people, during a protest against the government. Think of it – we have more people here than we do have in the Turks and Caicos Islands; hence, more control instruments are needed so that if there is a non-democratic takeover, nothing will be able to hinder the process.

Wiretapping people’s personal cell phones by order of the Commissioner and Governor was a regulation that was recently passed in the LA. Instead of giving a judge that power to cause a person’s phones to be wiretape via evidence of a crime, the Governor or Commissioner can just authorize it without any evidence.

Also,they poligraphed our local polics officers to keep them at bay (so they say)… officers are poligraph not for the sake of fighting corruption. Rather, it is a tool for manipulation, intimidation, and controlling those members of the community with law enforcement experience.

They have manage to allow the UDP to postpone the development of the economy by making MOUs, etc… and not following through with them. The Premier has flip flop over and over again as the economy sinks, unemployment rise, and it is buying more time for a colonial or Uk dictatorship to step in. Ezzard Miller speaking about our situation at the Uk may not help, because the news of the Premier being under investigation for corruption, may bring us closer to a TCI takeover like it never did before. A TCI takeover will forever ruin the financial reputation of these islands, and strip us from the democracy the people of these islands deserve.

From Unions and Assemblies across the United States, there have been civil disobedience. Freedom of speech is democracy, and it appears that all of our government leaders are against us having absolute democracy to assemble and organize ourselves to petition against the government for greivances. We see this in the newspapers, we see this when we have a Governor who folds his hands and does nothing for the people, and we see this when our very Premier attacks local news agencies.

Caymanians need to wake up and see the agenda of Caymanian elite, those big developers behind them, those who got the money, and those special interest behind the FCOs decisions. We are caught between a local and Uk government, and no one is willing to represent us… so most naturally, the people have to rise up and do it themselves, start organizations, creat alliances; or else, it is too late.

My two-cents

I don’t have a ready solution to the crime problem except to say that unless Caymanians have the willingness to turn in the evidently local criminals who are committing these armed robberies then things will only get worse. Surely it is locally known that there is a hardcore of disaffected youth on ths island who use their cell phones to coordinate drug dealing, robbery and maybe worse. These people are Caymanians and not ex-pats but only represent a small proportion of the decent Caymanian people who have made this place such a pleasant and safe people to live in. The criminals need to be put in prison and then hopefully rehabiliated and educated so that they can be part of the economic success which the Cayman Islands has become, albeit a bit tatterd by the recent global recession. Only Caymanians can unite against and speak out against the cancer of crime which has been allowed to fester in our midst and solve the problem.

When I first moved here 30 years ago front page news would be Purse stolen when left on beach while owners were swimming.

Now it seems almost every day there is another armed robbery. Yet, as NJ2Cay says, there are no public protests.

Nor as these trash turned in to the police, someone must know who they are.

Per head of population there are more armed robberies in Grand Cayman than almost any other country in the world.

Our economy rests on two industries:

Financial services which are under attack from outside Cayman.

Tourist services which are under attack from inside Cayman. What reason does a tourist have to spend more money coming to Grand Cayman when they are just as safe (or unsafe) in the Florida Keys, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos or other Caribbean Islands?

In just 6 weeks there have already been 10 armed robberies in Grand Cayman. Or, the equivalent of 80 for the entire year.

According to Florida Government statistics there were 11,000 robberies with firearms in the entire state of Florida during 2010.

http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/Content/getdoc/66defe5f-5791-4722-83d6-72ae469bfc70/1971_fwd_robbery_firearms.aspx

However this was for a population of some 18 million. It comes out to 14 per 10,000 people for the entire year. So if you multiply by 4 the equivalent for a population of 40,000 people would be 56 armed robberies for the entire year.

The population of Grand Cayman is about 40,000.

So, based on the first 6 weeks, we have almost DOUBLE the number of armed robberies(10 robberies in 6 weeks by 52/6 = 80) per head of population in peaceful, crime free Cayman as in Florida.

I’ve only lived here for almost 2 years and now it’s time to go. Sad to say that this island while having nice beaches is lacking in governing laws to protect citizens and visitors alike. When I return back home – this is one place I will not recommend for anyone to visit until the premier and the police stop being so frickin lazy.