Boycott the Bahamas

I was drugged, raped, and a knife held to my throat within 32 hours of our arrival at our hotel in the Bahamas, my first time there. This happened on Paradise Island Bahamas inside our hotel. The Government of the Bahamas let in and is letting in thousands and thousands of foreign workers and letting them live in the hotels with women and children. The Government of the Bahamas has publicly told all that they let these foreign men in without doing any immigration procedures nor issueing individual work permits and the hotels are not registering them. The Government of the Bahamas has done this as a favor to a hotel builder to speed up the building. The government of the Bahamas sells tickets online for vacation packages and then places buyers in danger knowing this information also knowing of rapes by construction workers, a young lady was raped on her honeymoon. I reported my attack and yet nothing has been done, even though we have photos, evidence, witnesses, medical info., and gave them a person to point out the men. The men were still at this hotel when I reported yet no-one bothered to go over there (10 minutes tops) to protect the safety of others. These men are still free to do the same to others today.

We want safety issues always in place for all peoples coming and going in this country. We want them to stop placing us in dangers way when they know what is going on. We want justice when we report crimes. The Bahamas will be building for the next ten years and bringing in thousands and thousands of foreign workers to do this. I am speaking up to protect others and to let you know that it is not safe. The United Nations has come out with a report studied for many years and they have reported that the "Bahamas is the Rape Capital of the World" The Bahamas has the "most violent" deaths in the world and a very high assault rate. It is known that the police may try to coerce victims from reporting sexual assault. We want the Government of the Bahamas and the Ministry of Tourism to stop placing us in dangers way, to think about their tourists and to make the police take all crime reports seriously, tourist's cases do not seem important at all to them.

I reported three men to the police, they were right there when I reported yet they are still free. I could have died that night from these drugs. The police closed my case even though it was new one week after Natalee Holloway went missing, and they had never investigated it yet. I want my case brought back to the USA now and investigated, two countries will aid in this investigation but the Government of the Bahamas will not let it come back here to be done. (please write to paul@rbpf.org  and tell him to give POL/CDU/32/11 Bahamas back into the USA)

The hotels and Bahamas.com hide hidden clauses that all customers sign when registering and/or buying from them. These clauses state that if anything happens to you on their islands they will not take any responsibility yet they place us in dangers way. We want this stopped now. The United States has a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, stating businesses (including government) that sell to Americans are responsible for their customers and/or sales. Bahamas.com was where I purchased my tickets.

The Government of the Bahamas is letting out criminals in this tiny country if they are not able to start a trial within two years, hundreds are walking the streets amongst the tourists everyday. We want them to protect us if they want us to come there. We want people to know what is going on there and we want to boycott until our safety measures are taken seriously. Please sign the petition, they will not change unless we speak up! We want safety, justice and immediate investigations for the protection of others when someone does report a crime. We want all clauses prior to purchase to be upfront where buyers will see them. We want the crimes stopped on tourists now! We want this case brought to the USA for a true investigation.