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Antigua is still a relatively safe place—but the escalation in break-ins should alarm us all. Once someone is willing to cross the threshold of another person’s home or business—spaces where people are most vulnerable—anything becomes possible.
Not long ago, items were stolen from a loved one’s home. The police were called. They never showed up.
More recently, that same home was broken into while my loved one slept inside. Thankfully, they survived unharmed—but this could have ended very differently.
Police eventually came and assessed the scene. However, as family members arrived to help reinforce security, additional evidence was discovered. These were things the police missed. The officers were called again. They did not return.
Had police responded properly to the first incident, there may have been an opportunity to determine whether the same perpetrators were responsible and build a stronger case.
This mirrors the recent break-in at Kess Imports, where the business owner—not law enforcement—identified critical evidence that was overlooked.
This kind of laissez-faire approach to crime fighting creates the perfect environment for criminal networks to thrive. It sends a dangerous message: stealing is a viable means of survival. That is unacceptable.
What Needs to Change—Now
1. Law-abiding citizens must be empowered to defend themselves.
We must allow responsible citizens the dignity of being their own first responder. The process for legal gun ownership needs to be streamlined and made far more accessible.
As a single woman living alone, what is my reasonable defense if three men break into my home? These situations are already volatile—but being armed gives victims a fighting chance.
2. Professionalize and properly resource the police force.
We need better training, competitive compensation, and officers selected for competence—not convenience. Antigua must also establish its own forensic lab so cases can actually be solved and dangerous individuals removed from our streets. When criminals see no consequences, crime becomes a career path. This destroys social cohesion and deepens the divide between communities.
3. Emergency services must work—without excuses.
Accessing police assistance should be quick, modern, and reliable.
Victims should be able to send their location and information via WhatsApp or other means—especially during home invasions or for those who are hearing-impaired AND if a call is placed, your location should be traceable.
Who has time to say, “Turn left or right” when an intruder is in their home? Issues with police headquarters’ main phone line (which I know they’ve been experiencing) are not minor inconveniences; they are life-threatening failures.
4. Parents must be held accountable.
Where are your sons going in the early hours of the morning? Where are unemployed young men suddenly acquiring items to sell? If your son has little education and no job, how is he financing resale businesses? How is he selling half-filled gas tanks? I’ve seen posts for these on gas tanks on social media. These are not coincidences. Ask questions. Demand answers. Silence enables crime.
5. Visible, routine community policing is non-negotiable.
Antigua is too small for consistent patrols to be unrealistic. A regular police presence deters crime and reassures communities.
6. Crack down on the resale of stolen goods.
The buying and selling of furniture, appliances, jewelry, and other valuables without proof of original purchase should be illegal. Receipts should be verifiable and challengeable. Without a market for stolen goods, break-ins lose their incentive. What remains for victims is trauma—and that cost is too often ignored.
Crime does not exist in a vacuum. It grows where negligence, complacency, and weak systems allow it to. If we want safer communities, we must confront uncomfortable truths and demand real reform.
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The police should do profiling, stop these hooded people and search or photograph them so that we can match discription, and I am not talking about police tip toe around white or Chinese or Syrian people, the black authorities seem to be scared of white people, so that we can carry out fair treatment of all ethnicity while we try our endeavor best to stop this crime wave, and they could get their fancy lawyers to shout violation of constitutional rights, we are all suffering from crime and violence.
Also the government should get solar powered streetlight with camera combination out of china to replace all existing streetlights system and help the police and government solve crimes, there would be video surveillance of the potential criminal before they mask their face.
The first thing killed my motivation to read this article in full was the first line stating Antigua is relatively safe. Then the writer said they called the police and they did not come. Then mentioned what we experts called inherently dangerous crimes is happening frequently and that there is no proper crime fighting techniques.
How can you start your great article like this. Also, you said Antigua is relatively safe, relative to what? You must compare Antigua to Antigua. The problems of safety that Antiguans and Barbudans are facing are those in Antigua and in no other place. Crimes in other countries are not crimes directly impacting Antiguans and Barbudans.
So stop making the subject about other countries. For once, make Antigua the subject, make Antigua great again (has nothing to do with MAGA). FOCUS PEOPLE. FOCUS.
I wrote this on another article and I will put it here:
I get upset and want to use words like ignorant and incompetent to describe people like ABLP Attorney General Cutie Benjamin because I told him stop comparing Antigua and Barbuda to other countries and stop saying it is the safest place in the caribbean as these statements will only come back to hurt him and be used against him to prove him to be incompetent.
Not only that, these statements will make the public feel unsafe as no one could reasonable believe he is taking the obvious and frequent vicious crimes plaguing the country seriously. It is nearly a crime for an AG of a country to use the words the ABLP AG uses to describe the frequent and inherently dangerous crimes occurring in Antigua (it is like he is conceding that he is neglecting his office). This is coming from someone who looked up to him, he WAS my role-model who did I not meet those years and I had these thoughts of honor, hardworking, intelligent, ethical and sophisticated to his trait/character, I made them up in my mind about AG Benjamin, and then I strived all those years to be what I thought the AG was.
Then I met him and understand I did not know the AG but I will never stop striving to be what I thought my role model and superstar was from the show Justice.
I loved watching Justice. It was AG Cutie Benjamin, Atty Wendel Robinson, Atty Eli Fuller, & Atty Harold Lovell were some of the folks I admired. But AG Benjamin as at the top and Atty Wendel Robinson was close behind. I just thought as men of law, they were also moral. I confused both of these to mean the same.
However, I pray that I comment on here pushes those people in charge to help the people in and outside of Antigua and Barbuda. I promise you everything I expressed here has only been to better Antigua and Barbuda, the people, and to motivate the leaders into acting pragmatically, intelligently, reasonably and fairly.
It is time that the ABLP government that is leading Antigua and Barbuda consult an expert in crime fighting, social and behavioral science, crime victim advocacy and research, analysis & strategy, and someone who turned 0 into millions to save the people of the United Islands of Antigua and Barbuda (UIA&B) from this constant and horrific criminal victimization in UIA&B.
it is time for these people to win back the status they had in my mind/heart. I want you to win, now act, for the safety of the country I am begging you to act reasonably and intelligently.
Others are free to act to get this status too. As I will support anyone who does the right people for the safety of my people.
I provided the country with some crime fighting plans that will substantially decrease crimes. They must be executed precisely or it may fail. You can contact me for free, and take all the credit when my idea works. You do not have to give me any credit. I am happy with just the safety and security of Antigua and Barbuda.
To get rid of the Crime culture we first have to get rid of the Cult, simple common sense, what you sow is what you reap
1. Antigua already allow people to own guns it’s regulated and to get one you need a valid reason and checks but it’s not that hard to get. If you want to give everyone guns like the US I strongly disagree that system is broken and why they have mass shooting and mass gun crimes by literally anyone who isn’t fit to own guns and if you trip one day and decide to shoot up the place there is no mental check periodically to keep up if you’re fit to hand a firearm same with Antigua on that check which I hate.
2. Antigua police do need to be turned upside down and restructured from lack of policing to someone shouldn’t be a police and drowning in the power of the uniform and using that power to get things or people abusing people. Like up to know haven’t heard follow up about the youth from bolands and why they discharge there gun in a residential area and someone who didn’t seem to post a threat to the police or anyone else safety to justify the shooting. Giving more
Im not giving them more resources Antigua is using stone age tech in a lot of departments other countries issue can’t really be applied here as I know because we do actually like tech.
3. I do agree with more policing we do have under policing but I don’t want a case of over policing in places like Grace Farm and basically no one English Harbour
4. Parents I don’t disagree with what said. But what kind of responsibility should be held? And already have laws about stolen goods it’s protects buyers and resale after that from the law because they aint responsible for the theft which I agree with, most time casual sales are done without paperwork. So restricting that will kill send-hand sale and just create a black market where ordinary goods illegal when resold because let’s be honest it’s not going to stop second hand sale.
5. Almost all of these are reactive most instead of addressing the society that made crime and gun crime grow from the inequality, nepotism and corruption where official steal to enrich themselves since they have more resources and position to do things a regular person would have a hard time and government approval to do.
Also to add on to my last comment even the jail system is apart of it where not only it’s harder for people who come out of jail to reintegrate in society they also don’t do anything to address why someone when to jail in the first place, weather it’s something as someone who can’t control their angry and did something in rage to people enter jail the 100th time for stealing.