Crime Against Cruisers in St. Lucia Has Been Horrible. Will Arrests Help Turn the Tide?

Government Targets Gangs, But New Initiative Includes Anchorage Security

A series of armed robberies or attempted robberies in the anchorage between St. Lucia’s famed “Pitons” is discouraging cruisers from visiting. (Photo by Peter Swanson)

Five arrests have reportedly been made in a spate of armed or attempted armed robberies at a St. Lucia anchorage last year. In one particularly brutal assault in August, bareboat charter …