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Compass News – 3 October 2025
A Cayman Compass exclusive… looking at migrants who have been scammed in exchange for work permits.
Plus updates from the courts today — including justice for a man who was murdered.
And an autumn cocktail with a little island flair catches the eye of Essence Magazine.
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Cayman Compass
Selling the Cayman dream: Desperate migrants shell out life savings in ghost-permits scam
When ‘Arun’ collapsed in the doorway of the Victory Tabernacle church in George Town, it marked the beginning of the end of one of the worst periods of his life.
He had arrived in Cayman from rural India, having borrowed against family gold and land deeds, to pay his passage.
The 26-year-old, speaking to the Compass under a pseudonym on condition of anonymity, handed over more than US$10,000 to an agent in his home country. He believed he had bought his way into a stable job in the Caribbean.
Instead, he arrived in Cayman to find there was no work. He ended up destitute, sleeping rough on Public Beach and surviving on slices of bread and peanut butter.
“It was the toughest time in my life, but I could not give up,” he said. “If I failed, my family would lose everything.”
