St. Lucia murder
Jan 1st, 2001, 05:22 AM
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St. Lucia murder
Very sad story on CNN about the attack and muder of a Catholic nun at mass in Castries. Other people at the service were hurt. How does this affect travel-well if you are Catholic and want to go to church, be aware of this attack. It is very very sad.
Jan 1st, 2001, 06:22 AM
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Yes, it is a sad story but for crying out loud, put it into context. The article indicated that it was a one of situation where a church was attacked during a New Year's eve service and although several ISLANDERS were injured, the group behind the attackers have denied it had anything to do with them.
Everyone, please stop making like life in the Caribbean is perfect and crime free all the time - the people who live there the remaining 50 weeks of the year that we are not on their island are just as subject to the bad things that go on in the rest of the world. Unless St. Lucia has been listed as a place to stay away from on the travel advisory warning list (and which it hasn't!), then there is no reason at all to take up room on this board with scaremongering postings just because you have nothing better to do. Guess what, we can all read and yes when I read that same article this morning I shook my head at the sadness of it. What made me even sadder was that I knew it wouldn't be long before someone in the Fodor's board found it as an excuse to pick apart St. Lucia.
Good god - get a life.
Everyone, please stop making like life in the Caribbean is perfect and crime free all the time - the people who live there the remaining 50 weeks of the year that we are not on their island are just as subject to the bad things that go on in the rest of the world. Unless St. Lucia has been listed as a place to stay away from on the travel advisory warning list (and which it hasn't!), then there is no reason at all to take up room on this board with scaremongering postings just because you have nothing better to do. Guess what, we can all read and yes when I read that same article this morning I shook my head at the sadness of it. What made me even sadder was that I knew it wouldn't be long before someone in the Fodor's board found it as an excuse to pick apart St. Lucia.
Good god - get a life.
Jan 1st, 2001, 07:05 AM
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No I was not picking apart St. Lucia. Crime happens all over-it did make NYC evening news and I just read small article in NY Times. So, in this very Catholic island, where you had 400 people attending service in a Cathedral, and 3 men attack and torch- is very sad. Did I say tourists were involved. NO Would it stop me from going to St. Lucia-NO!!! I have been there! Have You? It is nice to be aware and fore warned. A lot of people do attend church while they are on vacation. I for one like to know what goes on. Yes there is crime. No I do not like it. So you get a life and grow up. St. Lucia is a beautiful island, with some very sweet people. Happy New Year!
Jan 1st, 2001, 10:07 AM
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Anne: then what was the point of mentioning on this forum - all it did was make you sound like the naysayers who run around this post and nitpick about the crime and the bad things that happen????????
Yes, we have been to St. Lucia - we spent a week on this island and found the drive from the airport scarier than most of the stuff that the scaremongers are always posting here. But hey, that's life and that's all part of travel.
This was a very unfortunate incident and it was an isolated incident - what, do you think if you warn others about this you'll have done your good deed for the day by warning them off of going to a church service in Castries where this extremely isolated incident may never happen again???
Remind me to get onto the U.S. board and forewarn everyone wanting to visit postal stations, McDonald's, etc, etc, about an isolated (and seriously sad) shooting incident that occurred at these places over the past few years just in case they were thinking of visiting one of these areas!
I'm not the one who needs to grow up here!
Yes, we have been to St. Lucia - we spent a week on this island and found the drive from the airport scarier than most of the stuff that the scaremongers are always posting here. But hey, that's life and that's all part of travel.
This was a very unfortunate incident and it was an isolated incident - what, do you think if you warn others about this you'll have done your good deed for the day by warning them off of going to a church service in Castries where this extremely isolated incident may never happen again???
Remind me to get onto the U.S. board and forewarn everyone wanting to visit postal stations, McDonald's, etc, etc, about an isolated (and seriously sad) shooting incident that occurred at these places over the past few years just in case they were thinking of visiting one of these areas!
I'm not the one who needs to grow up here!
Jan 2nd, 2001, 05:34 PM
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Thanks for the information Anne. I have never been to St. Lucia, but this info won't stop me from going there (definitely on our list of to-do vacations). I prefer to hear as much good/bad info about a vacation destination BEFORE I go, because no place can be all good all the time. Hopefully, people will take the info you've provided & work it in with positive info they SHOULD have acquired & make an INTELLIGENT decision before condemning a destination based on any one incident.
Jan 2nd, 2001, 06:21 PM
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Yes crime happens everywhere, if you let it scare you away from enjoying your travels then you might as well stay home (but your not any safer their either). I will be going to St. Lucia in Feb and Im sure we will enjoy ourselfs. Crime like that happens everywhere in the world but you cant let it rule your life. By the way we have been to Jamaica and loved it there. Happy Travels in 2001!!!
Jan 3rd, 2001, 05:53 AM
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Normally, I avoid such threads, but having been to St. Lucia, feel the need to jump in. This incident is clearly one of those horrible, isolated incidents that make everyone shake their head. Should it effect your travel plans? Not at all, unless you intended to spend a lot of time at Catholic St. Lucian churches.
Posting such remarks in a travel forum isn't any more helpful that posting about the nut that tried to crash the British Airways 747 last week. Will that make you avoid all air travel, flying British Airways, flying on 747s, or flying to Kenya? Did the Columbine massacre or Oklahoma bombing stop you from travelling in the US?
I would hope not. So too, I would hope that this unfortunate incident, which had nothing to do with tourism, would not affect most people's plans to travel to St. Lucia. There are terrible incidents happening everywhere in the world, and unless they would affect the average tourist, I don't see the value in reciting them here.
My two cents,
Mike
Posting such remarks in a travel forum isn't any more helpful that posting about the nut that tried to crash the British Airways 747 last week. Will that make you avoid all air travel, flying British Airways, flying on 747s, or flying to Kenya? Did the Columbine massacre or Oklahoma bombing stop you from travelling in the US?
I would hope not. So too, I would hope that this unfortunate incident, which had nothing to do with tourism, would not affect most people's plans to travel to St. Lucia. There are terrible incidents happening everywhere in the world, and unless they would affect the average tourist, I don't see the value in reciting them here.
My two cents,
Mike
