After several years vacationing in Negril, we didn't go last year partly because I had various safety concerns. While the hassling was up the last couple of years, we could deal with that. The increasing (in my perception, anyway) reports of theft and robberies were a concern. But the jet skis were the deal breaker. My wife is a beach person and her idea of a vacation is to alternate long swims with naps on the beach while I go fetch lunch etc. I swim fine, just don't love it the way she does, so she'd be in the water alone, and I found myself pacing when she was swimming because of the jet skis zipping around her. Not a relaxing vacation! Sometimes it would be a Jamaican trying to rent her one even while she was swimming, sometimes it was tourists who didn't appear to know what they were doing, and sometimes just either Jamaicans or tourists who I thought were being jerks. The discussions here in the spring about the increased police presence on the beach and the news about the jet skis going away have induced us to return this February.