St Croix, an example of what can happen (Excerpted)
It is 1972 and St Croix was a very popular tourism destination in the Caribbean. The a horrible murder happens on the island. 2 Couples out playing a round of golf are brutally murdered. The island is in turmoil, and its reputation is destroyed.
And remains that way today. A once thriving tourist destination is a veritable ghost town.
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A few years ago, travel writers Rick Cropp and Barbara Braidwood rated St. Croix the place where you are “most likely to be robbed or murdered on vacation in North America.”
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There has also been a rash of murders in the Virgin Islands recently, with one case making news back in the United States.
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Jamaica has been also rocked by murders that have effected its tourism industry. Vacationers there stay essentially in compounds separated from the local populations, and the tourist towns are very heavily patrolled by police.
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More than 1049 people were killed (in Jamaica) between January and December of 2002.
http://www.scaredmonkeys.com/2005/07/19/st-croix-an-example-of-what-can-happen-to-aruba/
Thanks, LucyT. Very informative. I hope this takes Aruba off the map. We can use the island for a garbage dump.
wow. sounds like any large US city.