Evidently not, judging by the reaction of one island resident. Amy Winehouse has been staying on the Caribbean island for some months now, and from time to time she makes noises about settling there permanently. This should probably be taken as seriously as her occasional mumblings about recording a third album, but former governor-general Jeff Fedee wasn’t having any of it. In a column he wrote for the St. Lucia Star, Fedee called Winehouse a “tattooed reptile” who would bring “untold human suffering” to the country, making her sound about as welcome as an infestation of cane toads. At that point, Fedee stopped sugar-coating his comments and told people what he really thought:

I would strongly urge she be denied residency status to purchase property in St. Lucia. Is she being given special treatment? She’d be a menace and a dangerous influence to our society because the demons that inhabit her tortured body will have to be fed.”

It will not surprise you that Fedee gave Amy’s recent appearance at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, where Winehouse got booed off the stage after inviting her fans to “fuck off,” a negative review. At this point, it’s hard to think of a human community anywhere on the planet where Amy Winehouse’s presence would class up the joint. Somalia looks like a possibility, but after that it’s a short list. Although I’ve heard frightening stories about the rougher parts of Birmingham.