Is this true? A murder at 8 pm at Kenny’s on main road

[HarryS]

A quick Google search allows you to discover statistics such as murder rate per capita. The numbers in relation to Jamaica are chilling. Let's not bury our heads in the sand here. This is a real problem and shouldn't be downplayed. Saying it's just as bad elsewhere, or that you're safer in JA than at home, is most likely not actually true.

[Accompong]

A quick Google search allows you to discover statistics such as murder rate per capita. The numbers in relation to Jamaica are chilling. Let's not bury our heads in the sand here. This is a real problem and shouldn't be downplayed. Saying it's just as bad elsewhere, or that you're safer in JA than at home, is most likely not actually true.

Crime (especially murders) are mainly a Jamaican on Jamaican or commonly referred to as "black on black" crime. As a tourist, you are mostly a protected species. Yes, a rare murder occurs involving a tourist but many of those are when a tourist gets involved in matters they shouldn't be involved with and in places they should not go.

Academic debating on who is safer and where is safer depends a lot on who you are and where you come from. From my vantage point of decades living and visiting in rural Jamaica, I feel safer there than in Palm Beach County Florida.

JMO