Jacques Phanor used to sleep with his windows open.
Until just a few years ago, the Turks and Caicos Islands were known predominantly as a luxury Caribbean tourist destination.
The startling beauty of the archipelago has regularly earned it "world's best beach" titles, and thrust it onto the bucket lists of the globe's most affluent travellers.
But alarming levels of violent crime have rocked the once sleepy British Overseas Territory, earning it accolades it welcomes far less.
Last year it recorded 48 homicides, which, given its population is less than 50,000, gave it the worst murder rate per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to one study.
