Colombian national Monica Marcela Pineda goes missing in VI
- arrived on Norwegian Sky on April 28, 2024 & never returned to ship
The public in the Virgin Islands (VI) is being asked to assist with locating Mrs. Monica Marcela Pineda, a Colombian national who arrived in the VI on a cruise ship and vanished. Photo: Department of Immigration
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The public in the Virgin Islands (VI) is being asked to assist with locating Mrs. Monica Marcela Pineda, a Colombian national who arrived in the VI on a cruise ship and vanished.
Mrs Pineda travelled to the Territory on the Norwegian Sky on Sunday, 28, 2024 and has neither returned to the ship nor departed the Territory legally.
Persons a with information on the whereabouts of Mrs Pineda, are being asked to contact the Department of Immigration at 468-4705, 468-4717, 468-4754 or the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force Hotline at 311.
Just recently, three Colombian tourists also went missing after they reportedly arrived in the VI on the same vessel, the Norwegian Sky in March.
The three were Jean Carlo Ospina Cano, Pamela Mesa Escobar and Yesica Yojana Marin Ramirez who arrived on the vessel, disembarked during a port stop and never returned.
Disclaimer: Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) welcomes your thoughts, feedback, views, bloggs and opinions. However, by posting a blogg you are agreeing to post comments or bloggs that are relevant to the topic, and that are not defamatory, liable, obscene, racist, abusive, sexist, anti-Semitic, threatening, hateful or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be excluded permanently from making contributions. Please view our declaimer above this article. We thank you in advance for complying with VINO's policy.
.png)
Follow Us On
Disclaimer: All comments posted on Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) are the sole views and opinions of the commentators and or bloggers and do not in anyway represent the views and opinions of the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News Online and its parent company.
55 Responses to “Colombian national Monica Marcela Pineda goes missing in VI”
Time to have them dope running !
@Local made a good point below. The immigration folks need to tighten up their act. Better, the cruise ships should not allow anyone who does not have a visa to visit the BVI from suspected drug traffic countries to get off board.
The two guys who did not return to the ship a week or so ago had passports from St.Kitts and some other country. So that is not proof safe.
There is a whole in the immigration process that is clearly being exploited that needs to be fixed right away. Something needs to be done. This is clearly a new human trafficking route.
It's a serious thing to go missing. Sometimes missing people turn up dead. I hope the authorities are looking for these people because they could be in grave danger.
Those who escape from the Tourist Ships, make the Ship pay a huge fine
1. A Norwegian employee
2. BVIdlander/Belonger or someone who lives here with strong ties to South American or Mexican drug lords
Therefore, let us not keep our heads buried to wait for all hell to break loose. These episodes with Norwegian needs to be nip in the bud straightway. If we continue to let this fester, the next vanishing person might be one of our very own people, perhaps somebody's teenage daughter. Any investigations been done should be kept tightlipped and Norwegian should foot the bill. Why is our Government sitting idly by being si lapsed. Pleass lets not fall asleep on this. Perhaps, we need to requesf an audience with that man who was recently caught and sentenced in Puerto Rico. He might be able to shed some light on whats going with these recent himan smuggling. Wellsah, our beautiful Virgin islands now involved with this type of trash commodity. Its going to take us down a slippery slope we might never come back from. Then out goes our Financial Services, Tourism followed being treated like a Pariah when travelling to other countries. I believe we don't want that type of stigma associated to us like unfortunately, like how most Jamaicans are treated in whilst travelling to most Countries. I have seen this with my own eyes and have also heard stories. The majority shouldn't have to pay for the guilty, not a good idea to put everyone under the same unbrella. So lets work together and nip this in the bud before we, a family or friend fall victim to one of these hoodlums. To Ms Pineda, pleaseturn yourself into one of the nearesr police station because if we don't find you and you get into the US, they will definitely find and deport your behind back to your Country. If you are being held captive, pray and ask the Almighty to help you find a way out of the situation, so please seek assistance from an Immigration Officer, Police Officer,, Customs Officer or a civic minded resident.We will help you find your way home. To the known and unknown Criminals, please do all the peaceful, loving, kind VI rrsidents a favor and cease this type and all types of criminal activity as this only leads to your eventual demise; its either your death, a jail sentence or some type of mental instability. How can you rest at night? Why don't you find a legitimate job? Is this wjat your parents taught you? Aren't you tired living this dirty life? Most people are happy to say what they do and where they work. What do you say? Are you prpud of the petson you have become? Whem you srand before Almighty God, and he asks you to give an account of your life, what will you say and how would you feel? Remember money isn't all. Please try and save your soul before you are lost in eternity. May God have mercy on your soul. To my fellow Virgin Islanders, please stay strong, put God first, don't give up on your children, cintinue to fast and pray and knlw that this too shall past. We will gwt thru this but we need to work together. If you see something please say something. God bless the British Virgin Islands and all who call it home. Peace and love to all of you.
Pray
This is very serious because those south American gangs use both women & children to kill people regularly in their home countries.
We have no security at all just good will sustaining us.