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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Is Australia safe?
Friday, February 16, 2007Dear Sir:
Under the banner headline ‘Australian World Cup fans put on alert’ published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 31st January 2007, and carried in several other media outlets, writer Jon Pierik warned about the likely dangers to cricket fans visiting the ICC World Cup Cricket event in the West Indies. Did Mr Pierik also warn English and perhaps New Zealand fans about the danger of visiting Australia to view the Ashes and Commonwealth Bank series? Perhaps if he did, then Dean Conway, the English team’s physio and other members of the team could have taken great precaution against being robbed at knife-point in the room of their hotel. ‘Four men entered the Radisson Plaza Hotel and demanded money from the safes, as they forced staff to the ground’. And what of security! Mr Pierik has every right to caution cricket fans visiting the Caribbean in March and April of this year, but let us face the reality, it appears nowhere, not even Australia, is absolutely safe. Adrian Loveridge
Barbados
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