Topic: gangs

Caribbean cartels are using music promoters and performers as a front for organised crime, according to the head of a regional task force investigating drugs, guns and people trafficking.

With the assistance of law enforcement experts, analysts and academics, the Compass pieced together the possible route of a gun across decades and international borders and through the hands of multiple owners from its sale in the US to being fired in Cayman.

Prosecutors have never used any of Cayman’s anti-gang laws in the more than 12 years since they were introduced.

A prisoner serving life for murder has a warning for gang members who think they are invincible - the prisons and the graveyards of Cayman are full of people who felt the same.

The second Caymanian man convicted in a 2015 murder in central George Town was sent off island to the U.K. prisons service late Thursday afternoon 

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service is investigating two separate reports of shots being fired in George Town early Saturday that were thought to be part of a gang retaliation incident.

Two men arrested in what police said was a gang-related beating in West Bay last week appeared in court Monday facing assault charges. Both Andrew Earl Ebanks and Jared Radcliff Timothy were accused of attacking the victim using a baseball bat and a fence post on Birch Tree Hill Road.

Jason Powery was part of the so-called Birch Tree Hill gang and had received death threats in the months before he was shot dead outside a George Town bar, a court heard Wednesday.