Borntobeach,
The bus driver was Lenbert's son. He has been employed by Lenbert because Lenbert now has a second bus for the crawl. It has been so successful that he wants his son involved in the business.
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Lenbert and I came up with the idea for a free pub crawl as a way to entice people staying at the AIs to leave the compound and see Negril. Since we started it in July of 2011 and Lenbert was a member of the then West End Cluster, we decided to have it focus on the newly named "One Love Drive".
Here is a link for the very first One Love Bar Crawl:
https://negril.com/forum/showthread....RealNegril-com
Here is another post from Lisa about a month later, explaining how to get on the bus:
https://negril.com/forum/showthread....AR-CRAWL-Today
The Crawl has advanced over the past seven years from those early days when me, Lisa and Lenbert were the only ones on the bus.
The crawl has evolved many times and will continue to change. The children begging started early on because of how Negril developed. Well meaning visitors would give handouts to the children and many times their parents. This is a lesson quickly learned and their children and grandchildren of today were not lost in that lesson.
Lenbert and I have discussed at length about the issue but it will not disappear overnight. But one thing that Lenbert wants to demonstrate to the begging children is what happens when you work hard and look forward to the future. The handouts are gone usually that day, but Lenbert lives in a nice house with a nice car and now his own family bar that makes money to help grow the family business. Plus no better way for the kids to learn than by example.
And just to be real, Lenbert has been doing crawls sometimes seven days a week. I congratulate him for taking our simple idea and becoming so successful with it!
