AG tells DPP’s Workshop to place less reliance on eye witness testimonies
The following are the remarks by the Attorney General, the Hon. Samuel Bulgin, QC,at the opening of the Director of Public Prosecutions’s (DPP) Workshop Marriott Resort, Thursday, 14 June 2012 With protocol being established, let me add my voice in…
Male prisoner absconds and returns by car in the company of a female
On Thursday morning (14) a Category D male prisoner from HMP Northward absconded at around 10am. The 28 year old detainee was working on outside detail close to the prison when he “disappeared.” After an hour he was intercepted by…
Trio investors demand release of documents in $176 million fraud that ended up in Cayman Islands
Investors who lost their savings in the Trio Capital fraud have called for the release of documents, which they hope will expose the associates of the criminal mastermind Jack Flader. Flader was the architect of Australia’s largest superannuation fraud in…
Missing Farmington tourism funds top $500k and included trips to Cayman Islands
Final tallies of the missing-dollar amount from Farmington Convention and Visitors Bureau indicate the former executive director embezzled more than half a million dollars from the center, police reported. Debbie Dusenbery, 41, committed suicide nearly three weeks following revelations she…
Cayman Hosts Crime Fighters Workshop
Cayman hosts the newly formed Caribbean Association of Prosecutors’ first meeting, with a forensic workshop as its highlight, on Thursday and Friday, 14-15 June at the Marriott Resort on Grand Cayman. Thirty-nine delegates from the Caribbean British Overseas Territories and…
“CJ” Guilty of murder
Justice Alex Henderson found 19 year old Chakane Jamelle “CJ” Scott guilty of shooting his friend 21-year-old Asher McGaw in East End in the early hours of 22nd September. The body of Asher McGaw was discovered by police on routine patrol…
RCIPS appealing for help in Lija Godenzi death on Grand Cayman
Officers from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) who are conducting enquiries into the death of 43 year old Lija Godenzi have appealed for the assistance of the media and the public in trying to determine her last movements…
Man charged following National Housing Development Trust investigation
A 60-year-old man has been charged with several counts of deception following an RCIPS investigation into misconduct within the National Housing Development Trust (NHDT). The man was charged on Monday 11 June 2012, with 3 counts of obtaining money by…
New Legal Aid Bill raises many concerns by CDBA
The Cayman Islands Criminal Defence Bar Association (CDBA) gives response to the proposed legal Aid and Pro Bono Services Bill 2012 Executive Summary We welcome many of the changes that the Legal Aid and Pro Bono Services Bill introduces as…
Jamaica drug kingpin ‘Dudus’ Coke jailed for 23 years
Notorious Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke has been sentenced to 23 years in a US prison, the maximum sentenced he faced. Coke, 43, pleaded guilty to drug and gun-trafficking charges in August 2011. A five-week operation to capture him…
