Serving police officer arrested after Grand Harbour stabbing, RCIPS confirms

The dominant story over the weekend was a violent assault outside a commercial premises in the Grand Harbour area of George Town, and the subsequent confirmation by the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service that the woman arrested is a serving police officer.

The Caymanian Times reported that officers and emergency services were dispatched just before 9.30pm on Friday, 30 October, to a report of a stabbing outside a commercial premises on Shamrock Road. The Cayman Compass said a man was stabbed inside a parked vehicle, that a woman had been arrested, and that police were searching for a male suspect. Cayman News Service described the arrested woman as an off-duty policewoman, reported that one man remained at large and that another was in hospital with multiple stab wounds. Cayman Marl Road reported the RCIPS confirmation that the woman arrested is a serving officer, and separately reported police as confirming the victim was attacked by an armed man already inside the vehicle when he arrived to meet a woman known to him. Accounts of the victim's condition vary between outlets and the matter remains under investigation.

For business owners, the operational story of the day is administrative. Cayman News Service reports that Trade and Business Licence renewals are backed up, with applicants waiting longer for the document. The reported causes are an increase in the number of applications, enhanced compliance requirements, additional due diligence and incomplete applications. Operators with renewals due should allow for extended processing times.

In regional court news, Cayman Marl Road reports that Jamaican televangelist Paul Lewis, acquitted of carnal abuse charges in Jamaica in 2009, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in the United States for the repeated sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl whose family attended his Brooklyn church.