What are the police doing to end the crime on Bonaire? - thread split

[ScubaSteve]

Just FYI,
My wife and I were in Roatan during the coup.... mostly it was a non-event.
And the biggest thieves were the monkeys who took items off the balconies of the FOREWARNED guests.

I think I saw them on my last trip

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Just FYI,
My wife and I were in Roatan during the coup.... mostly it was a non-event.
And the biggest thieves were the monkeys who took items off the balconies of the FOREWARNED guests.

You better watch out...

 

[dvrliz1]

Liz... thanks for the update. Glad to see they finally opened their eyes a little.


but any idea what took them so long to finally do something? I mean this has been going on for years....

Yup, first and I'm not making excuses...I have discussed before how things were handled islandwide "in the days of ole'" which was the thieves were brought to the parents by the police and believe me there was ample punishment. This was the way things were done for hundreds of years. I can remember when cops didn't even carry guns here.

Second and most importantly I really think it is a 2 fold reason. One, we grew REALLY fast and the island was not prepared and secondly, a lot, actually the majority of thefts are done by either non-bonaireans, or Bonairean "druggies" who are hired by someone. I know that there was a problem with illegals (which the government has been and is actively address BTW) and they are the ring leaders. Three years ago, they had a big rash of robberies and it was found to be a women from Dominican Republic (I think, not positive), whose fence was in Curacao.

Other "rings" have been busted since, in the same fashion.

Finally we are coming into the 21st century in law enforcement. We are also an island in the mist of great change, for the better I hope, and I think that you will continue to see great strides made in the area of safety on Bonaire.

As a White American Female, to be very honest, I still feel safe walking the streets at night. Yes, I do take precautions, watch where I park, lock my doors at night now, but nothing different than I would do in the states.

 

[pilot fish]

Thanks for that. Posts like yours help educate people to the reality of things.


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I'm not dissin on Coz, i love the place but it ain't perfect either.

Go back in town and look at all the cast iron security doors and grates on windows or local homes and businesses. I've had a battery stolen out of my rental car there but also had a dive buddy get a regulator he left at Chankanaab returned to him the next day. Some people are honest and some are crooks anywhere you go.

Anyone who doesn't know the score in Bonaire by now hasn't even been trying to research it out. If one can't accept the precautions you need to take while there then don't go there. It's pretty simple really.
I chose to keep visiting there because the diving is great. Accepting some of the consequences that go with that is easy in my case. Bonaire is what it is. Somehow i don't think trying to change it with an attempt at provocative rhetoric on SB is going to change anything.

It's nice to know that some things on SB never change and PiFi is one of them.

 

[pilot fish]

Incidently, my name should not be on this thread as a seperate issue, as it is now, because I did not start it. This thread was started by Cool tec - he told the moderatos to start it and they did. Just so you know. Yes, he seems to have considerable sway. go figure

 

[mike_s]

so what happened to http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/abc-islands/322169-why-pifi-miffed-cooltech-abc-discussions.html ?

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

I don't know... I was not informed that it was shut down, or for what reason

 

[diversteve]

Incidently, my name should not be on this thread as a seperate issue, as it is now, because I did not start it. This thread was started by Cool tec - he told the moderatos to start it and they did. Just so you know. Yes, he seems to have considerable sway. go figure

Let's actually set the record straight here.

As indicated in the first post, I'm the Mod who split this thread off from the Bonaire Trip Report pt.2 thread.

Last edited by diversteve; Today at 01:03 PM..

I saw the suggestion by Cooltech to move this discussion to it's own thread so that continued thread hijacks by a certain minority of members would cease.

So I made the decision to do so.

For the record, I don't know Cooltech, he never told us to start anything and I completely reject the implication PilotFish has made in the post quoted above.

The reason PilotFish's name appears as the first poster is because that was the post where the hijack first started. Since everything on Scubaboard is stored chronologically when the thread was split that was the result.

I strive to be fair and objective in my interaction with all members although certain individuals make that difficult at times.

thank you,

 

[jd950]

Thank you Liz for the update. It is nice to see an official response to the problem. Time will tell.

Oh, and brave of you to step into this little brawl.

 

[pilot fish]

I strive to be fair and objective in my interaction with all members although certain individuals make that difficult at times.

thank you,

Sounds good.