Talk:Montserrat

For future reference the Project:CIA World Factbook 2002 import can be found at Talk:Montserrat/CIA World Factbook 2002 import. -- (WT-en) Huttite 05:45, 28 Mar 2005 (EST)

Safety Issues
It needs to be advised that Montserrat is considered one of the top three places in the world where assault occurrs. I added mention of this for that reason. SOURCE: http://www.securityworld.com/infocenter/international-crime-statistics/

This is absolutely silly. My best guess would be that the stats on securityworld.com came from an instable year of mayham due to volcanic activity. securityworld.com does not list their sources or the years of these statistics. Given the tiny population of Montserrat crime is very low as identifing and catching the assailant would be very easy. I highly suggest this be removed, Montserrat is far safer then many of the caribbean islands that do not including such a safety mention.

I would concur that the statistic ought to be removed. The Security World site gives no reference. This site: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_ass_percap-crime-assaults-per-capita has the same statistics but its source: http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/seventh_survey/7sc.pdf does not have per capita figures. Of the assaults, only about 5 a year were "major." Nationmaster also points out that crime figures are strongly influenced by amount of police presence and reporting. A lot of simple assaults (which can include idle threats and fist-shaking) go unreported elsewhere. My guess is that assaults are mostly between acquaintances, anyway. Robbery (taking by force or threat of force, e.g, mugging--not burglary) seems very rare. (WT-en) RogerR 23:27, 3 January 2008 (EST)

The Montserrat listed in that crime statistic is probably Montserrat, Spain.


 * Montserrat, Spain appears to be a monastery site, based on its WV article. Nationmaster is regurgitating the US CIA party line, http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/Montserrat/Crime finds nothing particularly dangerous (it's safer than many other Caribbean nations, because it's so small) but http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Illicit-drugs is filled with bizarre statements like one that Canada is "vulnerable to narcotics money laundering because of its mature financial services sector" which are familiar as pure propaganda from the misguided US "war on drugs". Odds are, the "CIA Factbook" may be freely reprinted with attribution as "a work of the US government" and Nationmaster, as primarily a Wikipedia mirror, is merely reprinting a mashup of whatever free content it can find. K7L (talk) 15:19, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

British Dependancy
It should be noted in the first section that this is a British Dependancy.
 * Actually it's a British Overseas Territory. Now mentioned. Invertzoo (talk) 15:54, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

AIR (Associated Independent Recording) studio
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/28/george-martin-air-studio-montserrat-paul-mccartney-stevie-wonder has a good writeup on the "AIR" studio, now 'mouldy' and 'wasp-infested'. K7L (talk) 17:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Citizens of Svalbard and Jan Mayen?
The immigration text makes statement about citizens of Svalbard and Jan Mayen. These territories have no sovereignty and no citizenship. Citizens of Norway are a thing, though. /Yvwv (talk) 13:40, 29 October 2021 (UTC)