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Hi Bent -
I think it would be great if you quoted your sources here. Your post appears
to be a copy of an article in Yachting Monthly magazine, and like most tales
of this nature, it's written with a good deal of sensationalism. It is not
patently unsafe here for cruisers, as the article suggests. More FUD (fear,
uncertainty and doubt).
Each year, some newbies come down here and do something stupid - then they
proceed to embellish it and spread the word. They don't bother to check with
other cruisers in advance to find out what to do or where to go and not. Like
wearing gold chains and a big rock on the wife's left hand and then leaving
the dink and/or the boat unlocked - all in front of some poor soul who lives
in a shack and has nothing. Hello!
The Eastern Caribbean is a great place to cruise and many of us have been
doing it for years - in our case ten winter seasons - without incident; we have
many friends who are here year-round and have no trouble whatsoever.
The crime rates mentioned are not crimes affecting cruisers nor indeed, most
visitors- they are crimes taking place among the natives in the cities and
places far-removed from most visitors. All-in-all a most misleading article.
But that's the publishing business!
Regards,
John
"Seahorse"
(aboard our sailboat in Trinidad)
> A mini-crime-wave has hit St Vincent & the Grenadines, islands popular with
yachtsmen in the Caribbean. Men armed with guns, machetes and knives have
robbed yachtsmen at anchor in seven incidents in the last six weeks at the
anchorage of Chateaubelair alone. Other attacks have taken place in Petit St
Vincent, Union Island, Wallilabou and Young Island.
Heres the story of one yachting couple's frightening experience at the
hands of armed pirates. In Chateaubelair, Steve Jones, who suffered cuts to
his head from machete blows in the attack, and his wife Katharine were
attacked aboard their Dufour 385 charter boat.
Meanwhile disturbing statistics about the Caribbean have been collated in a
joint study by the UN and World Bank. According to the study the Caribbean
is the world leader in violent crime: it has a murder rate of 30 per 100,000
inhabitants - four times the North American figure and 15 times the western
European average. Jamaica is the world's most murderous country, followed by
El Salvador, Guatemala and Venezuela. But some smaller islands are catching
up: St Kitts, with only 40,000 inhabitants suffered three murders in four
days last November. The Bahamas can be dangerous and in Trinidad and Tobago
the murder rate has quadrupled in the last 10 years. The upsurge in violence
is mainly due to drug dealing - which has seen an increase for gangs in cash
and weapons. Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados are beefing up their coastguard
operation to try and stamp out the import of drugs.
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