A BATTERED and bloodied restaurateur who was robbed as he served scores of guests, many of them tourists, is worried that the current crime wave will badly hurt the country’s main revenue earner.
Alfredo Giovine, operator of the popular Tapas restaurant on the South Coast, recounted the harrowing experience on Wednesday night when two masked robbers left him with a slashed forehead, a shirt covered in blood and his business about $2 700 short.
Of even greater concern to the Italian, who has made Barbados his home for more than a decade, was the fact that more than 80 patrons, the majority of whom were visitors, witnessed the bloody attack and may now leave the island with an image that would make the job of tourism marketers so much harder.
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