Shining an incisive light on crime in the Caribbean

Speaking at this week’s Caribbean Marketplace on Monday, President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Nicola Madden-Greig, is quoted in last Monday’s Trinidad Guardian as saying that while countries in the region continue to battle with what – at least in some CARICOM territories – now appears to be a steadily worsening crime situation, the region, as a whole, appears to be a preferred destination for extra regional visitors, her assertion reportedly supported by information culled from data from a “survey at the Caribbean Travel Marketplace in Montego Bay Jamaica on Monday, which showed over 80 per cent of tourists felt safe during their vacations to the region.”

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