Please Dawta continue to share your experiences as they happen, as others do through their trip reports and responses to these type of difficult questions/situations......it will be the only way that others, including myself, will be able to understand what is behind the smiles and sandy beaches, and AI resorts. You are very right, as other more experienced here on this board have shared, locals and if your are mistaken for a local, are discriminated against. That has been your experience and witnessed by others, examples have been shared. I appreciate the insight shared by frequent visitors, returning Jamaicans, and those that have lived and made a living on the island.
I think I was wondering about what you were trying to convey when you offered to send a PM to bnewb and not elaborate on your experience. I am not sure if anyone meant anything by questioning your experience but other then trying to understand it and wonder more about it. The way that I see it, the only way that we are able to become educated on a subject, to understand, is to question and listen.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but the original issue was that this question or comment by Dawta was moved from a thread/trip report that Manda had written, because it was maybe, and I am only wondering about this, that is was a seperate issue from what was being written about by Manda??? Which I am not sure if this is right nor wrong,...I really am not sure....but also have seen many many threads being taking off topic by comments that people have made within them.
Guess now I am a bit confused!!??!!
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