Containers cause trouble
Mary Jane Kampe, Managing Director of KMAR, and
Paul Samuels of Thompson Shipping, stand beside
the
containers at lot #39 on Andrew and Snug
Harbour Roads
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Charges of criminal trespass could be brought against the people involved
with allegedly leaving three large containers illegally on someone else’s
property.
However, Mary Jane Kampe, Managing Director of KMAR Investments on whose
property the forty-foot containers were left, stated that there would be
charges for the people responsible.
Mrs Kampe has been a manager of many properties in the Cayman Islands for
the last thirty years. She visited the Islands recently to continue
reconstruction work on the properties. She explained that she arrived to find
the fencing she had put up around the property on Andrew and Snug Harbour
Roads broken down and the containers parked on the lot.
“I asked the neighbours around and no one knew anything about them, neither
who owned them nor who put them there. The whole thing was even more startling
for me because one would expect that something like this would be done in a
more deserted area. This is a well-established area with resident occupants.
“I find it ironical and, sadly, humorous that I had put up the fence in the
first instance because people were using the property in my absence to park
boat trailers.”
She said that Mr Paul Samuels of Thompson Shipping kindly did some research
on the numbers on the containers and a construction company has been
identified, along with two trucking companies.
“I spent many hours at the George Town Police station on Friday night
making the report and the matter is currently under investigation,” said Mrs
Kampe. She added that the charges for criminal trespassing would take in the
cost of repairing the fence. She also intends to pursue other action that
would involve the recovery of costs for use of the property in this way.
“My concern is also with respect to the number of other persons who are
being taken advantage of in this way and don’t even know it because they may
be overseas for a while. The fact is that there is always a component in such
matters that will require the services of a lawyer, and not everyone is able
to afford legal services. When something like this happens to someone like me
who only has short spans of time to spend on island, then everything in
relation to the matter has to be done very quickly.”
She said she had to get the matter sorted in two days before she left
because, when she returned in a couple of weeks, she would need the space to
place her own containers with construction materials.
One of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) officers who took
the report on Saturday 4 May, Sgt Daniel Lowe, said, “the matter is under
investigation and therefore I will not be able to make any kind of comment.”
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