What is the crime rate like? Should I be worried about my safety?
As with any county you visit, you should exercise common sense. There are by no means the amount of crime that you would find in Jamaica and other popular tourist destinations, but I’m not going to say it’s perfectly safe either. It’s just common sense that if you are an attractive young lady, you don’t wander the streets alone. At least it seems that way to me. An interesting story is that when we were in Sosua, there was a purse snatcher who grabbed a ladies purse, well, quickly the cry went up and down the beach “Ladron” or thief. And about 20 guys were instantly after him, well they quickly caught him and returned the purse, well they decided to have a little fun with him, so they kind of played a game of tossing him in the air and catching him and tossing him again. If you had just walked up, you might have thought it was a game. And after a minute of this, they turned him into the authorities. They strongly try to discourage potential thieves as it is not good for tourism.
