Our travel friends had a conversation with someone who said that he had been on the island in December and described the island as a war-zone. They were told that gasoline was in extremely short supply and that people were being stopped on the road by groups of men and robbed or had gas stolen from their vehicles. He said the island in many places was very unsafe and that the locals were receiving little to no help and therefore turning to robbing tourist. He said that the French side was particularly bad. He told them that he couldn't wait to get off the island and he wouldn't recommend that anyone go there. We were trying to plan a trip in July, but my friends wife is very uneasy after hearing that.

This sounds like what I was hearing right after the storm, but I haven't heard anything like that recently...can some of you that have been on island recently comment on this? Are there specific areas that are worse than others or should be avoided?