American Tourist Murdered in Antigua

29-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Found Stabbed in Neck Near Beach Barbecue

(CBS)  Another tourist murder mystery has come out of the Caribbean. Last week, a young San Francisco woman was killed during a cruise stopover on the island of Antigua.

Many questions remain in the stabbing death of Nina Nilssen, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports. The 29-year-old aspiring composer-musician was found dead last Tuesday near Pidgeons Point Beach, a popular destination on Antigua.

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Nilssen was part of a wedding party on the cruise. Some member of the party had gotten off their cruise ship, the Royal Clipper, for a barbecue. Nilssen disappeared, but was later discovered on a trail not far from the celebration. She'd been stabbed once in the neck.

Etai Freedman, one of Nilssen's friends, told CBS News, "Nina had no ego. She was in touch with people on all levels of life. She gave everybody her time."

Nilssen is the fourth tourist murdered on the tiny island since 2008. In July 2008, British honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany were shot in their hotel room. And last January, Drew Gollan, a 38-year old Australian yachtsman, was shot in the chest. Police believe robbery was the motive in all three homicides.

Crimes against tourists have made news recently in other Caribbean nations, as well. High school senior Natalee Holloway vanished on spring break in Aruba in 2005, and in 2006, CBS News employee Ryan Smith was viciously attacked in St. Maarten.

Security experts advise that, even when in paradise, vacationers should be on guard.

Tim Horner, of Kroll, a risk consulting company, told CBS News, "Even if it's sunny outside, doesn't mean it's a low-risk or a low-crime area, and you have to pay attention."

Nilssen's killer is still at large.

[Goin4broke]

The News from Antigua just gets worse!!

The country has recorded its second homicide ? less than three weeks (18 days) after the discovery of the lifeless body of a United States (US) citizen at Winward Bay, Pigeon Point beach area.

Dead is a 34-year-old Hispanic woman, Maria Christina Feliz, of the Dominican Republic whose body was discovered outside of her Lionel Hurst Street home early Saturday.

Feliz was allegedly attacked and stabbed to the abdomen at her home.

[Goin4broke]

Another Two Tourists Attacked on Antigua - February 3rd 2010

Another two tourists brutally robbed on Antigua, just how many murders and robberies of tourists will be tolerated before the cruise liners abandon Antigua and the US issue a travel advisory against this Antigua.

A British couple was attacked and robbed yesterday while on an outing in the Villa area.
It is reported that the couple arrived in Antigua earlier yesterday aboard the Boudicca cruise liner.

Further reports are that the couple later journeyed to the Villa area and while walking along Bay Street, they were approached by three young men, who suddenly appeared from out of some nearby bushes. The youths were armed with a piece of stick.

The couple was then robbed of a digital camera ? the value of which is not yet known.
During the incident, the female visitor received a blow to her head with the stick while the man sustained an injury to his hand

[DaVicar8]

Gee, I thought that murder only happened in the U.S.?

[inventagod]

I personally ran into White-hatred in Antigua while on vacation. An operator of a beach concession tried to punch my wife, who was in a wheelchair. He was forcefully removed by other employees, and we retreated to the hotel.
The British and others have fostered this attitude with their colonialism and slavery. It has not been all that long since the sugar cane factories were closed, and memories are long when it comes to hatred...
Even when you understand this, you may face the brutality the families of the ex-workers remember very clearly.
I admit this was an unusual incident, as we also met some of the finest people there, who invited us into their homes and treated us to impromptu feasts...
Just be aware...

[Goin4broke]

If you want to discuss slavery look no further than the American south, it continued there was going on years after the British abolished slavery.
And as for colonialism, the good old US of A was still at it in the 60's invading Vietnam...and getting its ass kicked.
Americans wonder why they are hated around the world, reading ignorant remarks like those by "inventagod" should give you all a good idea. Ignorance and arrogance in equal measure.

God Bless America...oh sorry forgot the Chinese own the USA now!