Crime on Sint Maarten
Tourism and Crime on Sint Maarten Often we read of crimes in the local Newspapers on Sint Maarten. There are a variety of tourists that come to these islands, I want to highlight a very dangerous practise. Certain tourists come to the Caribbean to indulge in sex and drugs. The sex trade on these islands is fueled by a myriad of causes. The lack of financial stability in certain Caribbean islands, facilitated the flight of many poor and uneducated women to islnads that feared better. The conditions in which they live are nothing short of slavery. Tourists engage in a variety of crimes sometimes knowingly and at others unwittingly. Many "prostitutes" are underaged not those in the brothels but those who engage in casual sex with tourist's. These "prostitutes', can be males as well as females. The incidence of heavily i.e. junkies are the main servers in said industry and they are mostly male. This is very unfortunate but it happens mostly as a result of the way th...