It seems Amanda Small of George Town is one person who might actually be able to make that claim.
Mrs. Small told the Caymanian Compass that burglars broke into one side of a duplex her family is building in the Red Bay area sometime between Wednesday night after 10pm and Thursday morning before dawn.
Here’s just a sampling of what was taken: A Whirlpool Gold Stainless Steel Refrigerator, A 30’ freestanding electric stove, two queen-size bedroom sets – including nightstands and dressers, toilets, and a stainless steel railing.
Also taken from the worksite were tools being used by the contractors, including a jackhammer and some chopsaws.
The total value of the household furniture was estimated at CI $20,000, Mrs. Small said. Some of it was insured, some of it wasn’t.
“We were hoping to move into one side of the duplex Thursday,” Mrs. Small said. “It’s really weird this burglary happened the night before.”
The Smalls’ move-in date to the property off Selkirk Drive on Woodstock Road has been pushed back for at least several weeks while new items are ordered to outfit the inside of the home.
Typically, police advise that burglars are looking for smaller, portable items like laptop computers, jewellery and smaller electronic devices.
In this case, large kitchen items and construction tools were taken. Mrs. Small said it’s not the first time this happened in the neighbourhood; just last week similar items were taken from another resident’s home in the area.
She believes a large pile of fill in the front yard of the home may have blocked the view to what was going on in the house. Also, the incident happened in the overnight hours and Mrs. Small said most of her neighbours indicated they were asleep at the time and hadn’t heard a thing.
“{The burglars] must have had a large moving truck or made several trips,” she said. “There had to be at least four guys involved.”
Mrs. Small asked anyone with information about the missing items to contact her on email [email protected] or via cell phone 925-8128.
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The new look of Cayman will be homes with steel bars on the windows and Barbed wire fences, although you may have a nice dock in Georgetown visitors aren’t going to go but so far inside for fear of being attacked. Not much different then how Haiti was, I visited Haiti on a cruise years ago before the devastation the earthquake caused and we disembarked the ship onto a beautiful beach with an 8 foot barbed wire fence around a large area designated for tourists and there were armed guard patrolling the perimeter. We were told not to leave the area because of the potential for robbery, Kidnapping or murder. What a way to convince people to become stay over tourists.
Construction companies, suppliers and insurance spring to mind. I wonder why?
This kind of well-run operation is a tell-tale of organised crime. They will target an area, sweep it and move on to the next one. The object is moveable goods – so things with value but that are not unique or easy to track.
Community awareness needs to be raised to look for vans, trucks, unusual activity and so on as it’s not like you can jump over a fence and steal a fridge. The equipment has to be off-loaded and it will probably be within Cayman – so buyers be honest; if it’s too cheap to be true, then you it might have been Mrs Small’s.
In this case the police need to closely investigate the contractor company and its associates and the supplier companies as well.
If both parties, whether single or multiple are local, then the possibility of inside connections cannot be ruled out.
This suggestions is not meant to implicate the companies themselves but a close look at their employees is called for.
This has ‘insider job’ written all over it.