"Re: We made it to the rock
Ive spent 1 year in Jamaica and 2 seperate six month trips backpacking through Mexico Guatemala and Honduras and was never robbed or threatened. BUT was swarmed and robbed in Charolette NC, and robbed a gun point in Chicago! "
That was a quote from you, Once Deported. You then decide to take a grain of truth and create a forest of worry, and associate good establishments to these events. Guilt by proximity. I, like you have not been robbed or threatened in all my Jamaican travels. I attribute that not to my superior street wisdom but to the very good people of Negril who have done kind things and steered me in the right direction while even in a drunken Rob Ford stupor. When you can speak of individual crimes with names and details it is a testament to the lack of crime against tourists. In the US and even Canada the multitude of crimes against persons are so common we can't remember the names or details. We become desensitized. In Negril it bellows. Hotel, Restaurant and Shop owners cringe at one overly publicized crime against a tourist and the resulting exaggerated second or third hand accounting. It affects their livelihood! " Warn them accordingly" you say? Please do. Without embellishment or exaggeration.