Embattled singer Amy Winehouse has hit a snag in her bid to set herself up with a house and a recording studio on the Carribean island of St Lucia. Former Governor of the island Jeff Fedee made a public appeal, declaring, “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. Are the authorities going to ignore the indulgences in illegal substances for which St. Lucians are arrested and incarcerated. I predict the relative peace and tranquillity we enjoy will desert us and untold misery and disasters will visit us. Do not let that tattooed reptile become a resident of St. Lucia. We cannot put our future in jeopardy for the sake of selling a house to a character that will draw to St. Lucia untold human suffering.”