These things happen. None of us is exempt from serious crime in our neighborhoods, no matter how cosmopolitan or rural or developed or undeveloped they may be. Negril has had its share of it as well. Heck, a fellow Wisconsinite was doing a couple of small beach developments near Negril and was murdered, the story goes, as a result of a land dispute he was involved in. This wasn't really recent... it was in January of 2004 (I had to look it up). I'm sure the same uproar occurred back then, but it didn't stop us from going to Negril to enjoy ourselves. The crude joke then was that all we had to do was stay out of the property development business. The point was then, and is now, that these are not random acts. The victims were targeted.

When things like this DO happen in our neighborhoods, the news cameras come in to get the obligatory reaction from the folks who live nearby... "They seemed so quiet"... "I never would have suspected"... "This is so tragic"... and so on. The news vans disappear, we watch it on the news, we move on... we always move on. Maybe that says something bad about our society; and maybe it says something about our strength.

Is it acceptable that these things happen? Of course not! But in the absence of a lot of civil unrest about the whole affair, I see no reason for any of us to do anything but move on with life. Exercise the same care and caution that you would if you were at home. Don't become a victim of your own carelessness or stupidity.

Enjoy!