Crime Spree Alarms Antigua and Barbuda Residents
Police in Antigua and Barbuda are investigating a surge of burglaries, larcenies and robberies that has left communities unsettled in recent days.
The incidents range from home invasions in Upper Gambles and Wireless Road to break-ins at businesses in St. John’s Village and thefts at Island Academy’s parking lot.
The spree began with the theft of a weedwalker worth $3,000 from a vehicle at Island Academy between 13 and 14 August. Hours later, burglars struck two homes in Upper Gambles, stealing mobile phones including an iPhone 13. Police later recovered the device in a bag hidden in Fort Road, along with five other phones.
Elsewhere, thieves broke into a home on Lachland Benjamin Drive and stole three phones, while another resident on Wireless Road reported her house was ransacked. In St. John’s Village, a business was burgled, with cash and alcohol taken after intruders forced entry.
In a separate case, a man from Martin’s Village reported his lounge chair stolen from his yard.
Police say patrols have been increased but are urging residents to remain vigilant as investigations continue.
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Had police been doing more patrols we would probably have less of these incidents. I know they cannot be everywhere all the time but at least their presence sometimes could help
Antigua is a bit too big for the officers that we have. And you can’t say if police were patrolling cause the officers been patrolling
They will never stop. We are just to kill then one by one. Maybe one day the others will be afraid
This is now surely a state of emergency, and either the standing Police Commissioner or Prime Minister Gaston Browne needs to address the nation, and tell us how they’re going to resolve this criminal cancer. Forthwith!
We pay our taxes – went have a right to know.
This spate of robberies and the rising gun crimes spreading throughout this once peaceful and law abiding citizens has to be halted.
These feral hoodlums have declared a crime wave on Antigua.
Our authorities can no longer bury their – well paid –
heads in the sand. What is wrong with them?
We demand protection, and we demand it now!
THEIR ONGOING SILENCE IS TROUBLING …
PM needs to sponsor another series of football matches and pass out his customary ….to calm the block boys.
Cooks Pond Water need to repeat his dictate to the people:
“SHARPEN U CUTLISS BACK AND BELLY! CHAP DEM UP”.
Just kill all a dem
Meanwhile these fools in power are busy worrying about Harold Lovell. 😂.
What a clown show.
Dear commissioner of police. How do I obtain a firearm license and acquire training and info about the law to use such.
We seems not to be conscious of the fact we as a nation welcomes to fact that our Caribbean brothers and sisters are given opportunity to live and work in our country, I am of the opinion that this sudden hike in break INS and robberies can very well be a fact that some these people allowed to live in the country are not properly screened and some likely are ex convicts with history of crimes in their respective counties nevertheless I will not say that Antiguans don’t commit crime but check the stats of the integration level recently and the crime increase we are having two sets of people that are known for their barbarous ways are not living and working in our country and in my opinion these people should be looked at more closely by screening them vigorously before they are allowed to dwell in the country….. The sudden influx of vincentians is something to look at along with the other islands.. ( my opinion)
The government should get solar powered streetlight with camera combination out of china to help solve and deter crime
This is too much for the police. We have to do our part to rid our society of this threat. There are many factors that had lead to this crisis to include children being raised by social media, easy access to drugs(many of them are under the influence) and lack of purpose. These guys are stealing everything. You know it is real bad when churches and gravesites are not spared.
Government should get solar powered streetlight with camera combination out of china to replace all the streetlights to help fight crime.
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