What's this about Riots outside Red Ground?
What's this about Riots outside Red Ground?
Thanks Bnewb for the update!Originally Posted by Bnewb
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home"
Drink Eat be IRIE!
Yea I heard it too...something about the police killed a biker...? Don't know how true it is just heard it word from mouth...Would like to know more though..13 more days hope I don't need to cancel!
Last edited by IRIEchic; 10-28-2015 at 02:22 PM.
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home"
Drink Eat be IRIE!
Iriechic...there's no need to cancel...protests are not unusual in Jamaica though they don't happen a lot in Negril.
Ok. Good to know
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home"
Drink Eat be IRIE!
My guess is that it's not riot at all. They're just blocking the road which is a traditional way to protest in Jamaica.
Very similar incident happened last January 19th in New Hope near my house. Police chased an illegal bike and the rider fell off and died.
I have video from my go pro dash cam of the protest.
Things will be back to normal in a day or two.
The police are confiscating lots of unlicensed and uninsured bike by stopping traffic right in front of the station. Sometimes the rider sees the block, hangs a u-turn and high tails it with the police in chase. After that who knows what happened?
Cap
linston@redplate-negril.com
I came up on this protest right after it started. My driver decided to make take another route thru the cane fields and got us around it. There was some passionate youth raising some hell, but I never felt threatened as they were too focused on adding fuel to the fire.
In the 30+ years of being in Negril, I have seen 5-6 riots. Usually, rumors start the riots, which USUALLY were wrong, once the true story came out. Once a riot was caused by the Police due to beating up a pregnant women. Then the true story came out that the female vendor attacked the police for making her move from where she was set up, smacking the Police, not pregnant and was from Kingston, cheating people out of their money. Once I seen cars and other stuff burning in the middle of the road. But I knew those vehicles did not run anyway and were sitting in a yard prior to the riot! Now it was going to be removed by the officials at NO cost to the owner! Have seen so much speculation over this ridiculous riot that people need to know how much this affects tourism. I have even walked with rioters and NEVER feared for my safety, my guests safety or safety in general. These type of riots only allow the locals to give off steam and absolutely changes nothing! Get on with the street music and have fun!
These are NOT riots......
These are demonstrations
You want to know about a riot?
Read the story of Sam Sharpe (National Hero)
Cap
Last edited by captaind & Linston; 10-30-2015 at 06:58 PM.
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