“Capers Mourn Loss of Former Player”
Canada’s Cape Breton Post has run an article about Randy Robinson, the 22-year-old footballer who was murdered last week in the Border Lane area.
The full article can be read here, and an excerpt follows below:
Randy Robinson played just one season as a Caper in 2009 before returning home to Bermuda for the impending birth of his son.
Instead of attending university and playing another season of soccer in Canada this year, the 22-year-old was gunned down last week a short distance from his Bermuda home.
“Circumstances didn’t work out for him here,” recalled the Capers head coach.
“Looking back I know it was kind of out of my control but you feel that if he was still here he might still be alive today. Those are things out of our control. For whatever reasons he’s not here playing or anything.”
Police in Bermuda believe the murder was gang related even though Robinson was not thought to have been in a gang.
Chiasson said many of the Bermuda born players on the team — as many as five this year — usually don’t talk much about such matters happening in their home country.However, it was an obvious topic of discussion this week.
“It is tough to be a young person there. These guys don’t even want to go home, really. They know that life is good here and there is a lot of violence at home whether you are in a gang or not.”Not being in a gang, he was told, is sometimes worse than being in one.
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It’s a moving article. It’s clear they thought a lot of the guy.
It’s also clear the Canadians are getting a very negative impression of the violence in Bermuda.
The flagging tourist industry will be wiped out unless something is done.
Guidebooks only 4 years in print are outdated now- with their descriptions of Bermuda as a safe destination.
It’s time to start busting doors down and taking these guns and gangsters off the street.
RIP all the victims.
guidebook descriptions are relative. and relatively speaking, bermuda is VERY space.
Comparatively speaking, in terms of how Bermuda was before, it is less safe. But from a tourist’s relative perspective, bermuda is still safe.