It's long overdue for the government to do something about this. The government needs to recognize that personal crimes of this nature are crimes against every single business on the island because the victims often never return to the island - with their tourism dollars - and most likely they will tell their friends at home of the crime..resulting in even more loss of tourism dollars.
SXM...more than any other in the world depends totally on tourism and if the government really started to notice this they would change the sentencing for these type of crimes to reflect the terrible loss they cause..maybe even to the point where severe sentencing would become a deterrent.