Except that two tourists have been shot recently...
Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to play down such attacks just putting them into perspective.
The Caribbean is just like anywhere else in the world where affluence sits cheek-by-jowl with the poor.
But avoid the 'hoods, definitely don't resist if you're robbed ( which I understand at least one of the shooting victims did ) and take the same sensible precautions you would at home and you'd have to be very unlucky to be affected.
Things could be a lot worse if St Maarten's location didn't make it out of range of large-scale illegal migration which is having a massive effect on crime rates over here in Europe.
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