Oh lordie. So superstar Actress/Singer/Model Queen Latifah went to the picturesque island of Tobago for a Christmas vacay - yes, I'm talking about Trinidad's sister isle, here - and was promptly robbed.
It seems like the Queen checked into the uber chic StoneHaven Villas under the alias Cynthia Hadden, and sometime during the course of her holiday on the isle, about $10,000 USD in Jewelery was purloined from her suite.
Apparently, the management of Stone Haven feted the star and an unidentified female friend/family member with a private barbecue, and upon return to the villa they noticed that their bejewled belongings were missing
This is unfortunate on so many levels. It's a sad bit of bad PR for the tiny island, which depends heavily on the tourism industry, and it's also sad because Tobago is truly the gem of the Caribbean; a rare natural and cultural beauty.
To have such an idylic image tarnished by the robbery of a Celeb? For shame. Chances are that it was an inside job, perpetrated by a sticky-fingered employee, but who knows? Yes, things are getting very tough financially, but we don't have to resort to robbery, now do we?
L.M.N. Harris.
