‘Crime is everywhere’ not just in VI- Penny Haycraft
![Appearing as a guest on Talking Points on ZBVI 780 AM on September 4, 2023, Penny Haycraft, 2nd from right, was asked what her thoughts were about the negative changes in the VI community over the years, including gun violence. While expressing sadness about the fatal shooting in Long Bush on Sunday night, September 3, 2023, Haycraft, the wife of the late businessman Peter Haycraft, OBE, suggested that the [British] Virgin Islands (VI) is still one of the best places to live. Photo: Facebook](https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/cache/images/800x_t_Talking_Points_04.jpg)
The popular Haycrafts came to the Virgin Islands in the 1960s from the United Kingdom and made the Virgin Islands their home, where they were embraced by the locals.
The Haycrafts were well known for their business ventures and founded RiteWay, before selling the business a few years ago.
Appearing as a guest on Talking Points on ZBVI 780 AM on September 4, 2023, Haycraft was asked what her thoughts were about the negative changes in the VI community over the years, including gun violence.
“My thoughts are sad whenever I hear anything about that, shootings, I think there was one just yesterday (Sunday), very sad,” Haycraft replied.
‘Crime is everywhere’- Penny Haycraft
She continued that she and her late husband used to talk about this and “other things that we saw and didn’t really like happening. At the end of it we would say ‘is there anywhere we would rather be? No’.
“Because crime is everywhere,” Haycraft said, adding that they would joke about going to live on Roundrock.
Haycraft reminisced that in her early years in the VI, it was a close-knit community.
She said with the absence of television persons had to make up their own entertainment. “And that was going to people’s houses. It was very simple…”
Haycraft also shared that when she and her husband began living in the Virgin Islands they were embraced by the VI people, who were very kind and welcoming.
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16 Responses to “‘Crime is everywhere’ not just in VI- Penny Haycraft”
after the desastrous effect caused by hurricane Erma, Sept. 6th 2017, and shortly after tropical storm, Maria, a huge spiked of crimes, including deadly ones by guns, not to exclude political and religious has become a local pandemic in the B.V.I, and fastly growing.
It is true that the B.V.I crime rate is far lower than most, if not all, countries in this world I don't have the statistics nor am I a statistician on crimes matter.
Helping to reduce crimes, especially deadly one,s is the duty of all, not just for the RVIPF and a minority number of our people that are living among us.
As a man, whether he or she, thinks in the mind, the same is he/she.
Genuine love being practice among us is the only mental medication against the negative effects of this spiking, ongoing, deadly pandemic, namely Hate.