After many weeks I have finally returned from Trinidad where my sister was married which is why I haven’t been posting as frequently as I would like. Everytime I return to my birth country it is always with great joy. Trinidadians are known to be resourceful, intelligent and very kind however when going to Tobago we had a different experience.
My brother and my sister’s husband went to a particular beach called Store Bay to go jetskiing. They went out for approximately 5 minutes and returned. The jetskiing instructors said that they collided and had to pay damages. According to my brother his jetski never got started and when my brother in law came to help him they both turned off their engines and the waves pushed them together (much like how the jet skis were bumping together along the shore line where you go to rent them). They claimed that there were significant damages (however there was no evidence that the damages were not there to begin with).
Our family waited on the beach for their ‘boss.’ When it began to take hours we offered them our names and numbers because we had somewhere else to be. That’s when the threats started to occur. They told us no one will leave this beach. When we said we were going to call the police they said that wouldn’t make any difference as to what will happen.
We called the police and there was no response. When we finally did get through we were told that there was no police available to come escort us off the beach. Finally we had to pay them off in order to get off the beach safely.
Please note for your safety be very careful of where you’re renting your jetski from, take photos of the vehicle prior to taking it out. Have someone on the shore taking photos as well and monitoring.
I’m including pictures of the people who scammed us as well as the jetski they claimed was damaged (which they used after the ‘crash’).
