Elderly woman brutally murdered in Nevis
Thursday, August 26, 2004
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis: According to local
reports, an elderly expatriate woman living in Nevis was found Wednesday
brutally murdered in her home in Gingerland. She had been bludgeoned to death.
Later reports indicated that the woman was
found unconscious with severe injuries and died in the hospital almost 24
hours later. This follows two weeks after another
expatriate was reportedly raped and robbed.
These latest incidents have occurred amid complaints from residents that most
crimes go unreported by the local media and, if it were not for the
"grapevine", few on Nevis would know of them.
Theft is reported to be rampant in Nevis, murder and "chopping" becoming
commonplace and the word rape is totally omitted - in print or in speech. Rape
is seldom reported or prosecuted in Nevis.
According to one local resident, “The low crime statistics that are made
public - to encourage tourism - are figments of someone's imagination. For
those of us living here, life resembles a village of ostriches - all with
their heads in the sand. Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil is a way
of life here.”
However, local media interests refute any suggestion that they are somehow
muzzled in terms of reporting crime and say that, in fact, the opposite is the
case.
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