Just one question. My family is planning a family trip to Antigua due to that's where my great-grandfath er is from. The elder people in my family thought it would be a nice trip so the younger children will know about their history. Is Antigua not a safe place to vist? I ask that question because of the statement of attacks on vistors/tourist s of 2008-2010.

Very sad to hear that gun crime in antigua.
As a british man whom has been to mothers
Birth home it well not stop me visiting again
Are newspapers have not made a big deal
Yet and sure you will still get plenty of tourists

How come the person name is mentioned in this article, when the police have not issue the person name because the next of kin is not notify fully yet?

Is this miss Shaw from the state college?

Tenman,

I don’t know anything about “Shaw”, but I didn’t care to dignify his/her idiotic irrelevant comments with a response.

PLM, whats your issue now? I see your reference to St. Lucia where is that coming from? Look at that post from A Shaw which you leave alone but instead prefer to attack a neighboring island. PLM A Shaw is one of the loud voices from the Stanford Victim Coalition that have no good wishes for this country



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Listen, go back to St. Lucia, and lef me country ‘lone!

My condolences to his family. This gun issue need to be handled, please let us ask America, China, England, some country for a round the clock coast guard protection. The barrels, make sure they are properly checked. Carrying a unregistered gun should be penalized with 5 year minimum (mandatory). My Police Plan should be made effective yesterday. More officers out on the field, I promise, more revenue will be collected, from drug smugglers who almost always have cash with the drugs which will be confiscated and then fined, another revenue.

Frank ly, Until, Antiguans and Barbudans, implement the right laws, policing techniques, ask for the right help (coast guard help), put the right people in office who are experts in the specific fields, I ask the tourist to stay away from the country. My people need the tourist Dollars, and I love my people but the tourist life is much more important than some stupid dollar which is not even being spent properly to safeguard the people and tourist of the United Islands. Inexperience, illogical thinking, nepotism, etcetera is going to kill us (literally and metaphorically) . My plan is here.

The Beach is just the Begining, Corruption, Murder, Rape, Incest.

Need anybody say more!

Definitely not the news headline you want to start the year, but the known circumstances to date surrounding this murder are interesting.

That's the last thing Antigua need ar this time more bad press. Imaging the tabloid in the UK spinning this not waiting on any investigation. they will make it seem like Antigua is a violent place and so tourist are in danger.

While we are still recovering from the attacks on visitors/touris ts of 2008, 2009 and 2010, this. It will be another major blow once the British media gets a hold of it. Goodbye tourism recovery. (It won't matter that there has been a precipitous decline in the number of murders over the past year (from 16 to 6) or that the victim has been in Antigua since September.) Amazing.