A Canadian soldier on vacation on the Caribbean island of Barbados with his family was shot in the chest by robbers last month. Four men armed with a pistol and a machete broke into the ground floor of a house where Heather Hubble and her infant daughter were.
Hubble ran to pick up her daughter and then handed over cash and her mobile phone. As the intruders were leaving her husband, Jonathan was coming down an outside staircase and began yelling at the first intruder and fighting with him. The other robbers came along and shot him.
Ambulance took an hour
Hubble’s wife had to apply pressure to the wound and keep talking to her husband for the hour it took for an ambulance to come. Other family members came to take care of the child. She attributed her husband’s quick recovery in part to his physical fitness and was grateful to the first aid training she had received as a member of the armed forces herself. Four men were arrested in the case.
The bullet went into Hubble’s chest between two ribs and travelled down, landing near his tailbone, where it remains. It missed all his major organs and the parts it did hit were either repaired in surgery or will recover over time.
Hubbles will return to Barbados
Hubble says he feel lucky and will return to Barbados in future since he has family there.
Many Canadians vacation in the Caribbean and Central America between November and April as a reprieve from the long and harsh winter. There have been a few cases of Canadians murdered in Mexico and the Caribbean, but not enough for the Canadian government to issue any high level do-not-travel warnings.
Canadian travel to the region does not appear to have diminished.
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