A first-hand account of life in Montserrat

A first-hand account of life in Montserrat


Destiny here:
Well, what do you know! Montserrat has its first suspected murder in what appears to be almost a decade.

Now, as I heard it this is far from your everyday ordinary murder. Don’t believe me? Here goes…

Broadcasted over ZJB’s morning news, residents of Montserrat were shocked to hear that a man was found dead in the St. Peter’s area of Montserrat. What’s more? The police suspected murder.

Now don’t go getting your underwear in a bunch. It appears that it’s general knowledge who the murderer is!

As I heard it, in one of my favorite seaside bars in the Carrs Bay area and Little Bay areas, I overheard some local residents discussing the details of this issue.

Let me warn you before I start that these details are startling and odd, as far as I am concerned.

Having said that, let’s get on with it. As the story goes, some blue-eyed man, from Montserrat, went around announcing the night before the incident that he was going to chop up, yes like vegetables, some guy regarding some sheep, yes the animal.

Naturally, I am both confused and curious. Why kill someone over sheep? What could anyone possibly do with some sheep to deserve to be murdered? These were my questions.

As the conversation went on, as the fates would have it, one of the locals asked all the questions I, myself, wanted to know.

As it turns out, the sheep belonged to the murdered man. The blue-eyed man that actually did the murdering, because he had to do jail time prior to the incident for having sex with the murdered man’s sheep.

What’s even more bizarre is that people are saying the murderer prophesied and revealed his intentions the very night during a domino game.

I also overheard these locals discussing what they thought was an obvious change in the social existence in Montserrat.

The words are a buzz on the street that a former teacher and entertainment personality were arrested for non-consensual sex with a minor. In the same conversation, a police office was thought to be guilty of the same crime.

Now here’s why this information interest me. Local residents of Montserrat appear to believe that it is the appearance of ‘White’ people in the Social Services department and the police force why there seems to be a deliberate attempt to shut down pedophiles in Montserrat.

It seems like the residents of this island are pleased that there is finally some evidence of justice for those who have long existed safe and protected from the law.

While leaving this bar in a light drizzle of rain, I followed a surge of vehicles that were heading towards the Little Bay port area. It was at this location that I observed an intriguing characteristic of Montserrat’s current social and cultural structure.

Apparently, authorities at the Montserrat Port Authority received word that Montserrat’s shorelines would be affected by rough swells due to some unexpected freak storm.

I witnessed, in pouring rain with raindrops the size of Maraschino cherries, fishermen and port workers all working diligently to get the local fishermen’s boats out of the water before the predicted storm caused rough seas to damage these vessels. It was almost as if they didn’t even know it was raining. They, all, just worked and worked into the night until the job was done.

It was a beautiful scenery, as lights flooded the harbor with the bluff jutting out into the night like the profile of a distinguished aristocrat.

I was taking all this in right on a pavilion/gazebo built complements of Moose’s Bar.

Until we meet again, keep an eye out for the moose!






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