Higglers !!

[jojo p]

querty,
I noticed that as well, where I stay, they have a new security guy, and when vendors approach the chairs of the guest, he goes up and stands right next to the chairs, and watched and listens while transactions are made. If it gets to much, he tells them to move on. Also, I always every year, try and walk the beach, the whole beach at least a few times . I always start out at Cosmos. ( I know they are closed now ) I purchase a drink at their bar, and sit outside on the table, and drink it before my walk. When dudes come up and try and talk, the manager, or owner , not sure which, will come up and tell them to move on. I think years of complaining about this has been heard by the hotel owners.

[rtitle]

That's a long beach walk, if you mean from Cosmos (now defunct) all way into town. I sometimes take beach walks almost that far, e.g. from Footeprints (on the big-resort end of the beach) to Travellers (on the town end). My approach to avoiding higglers on such a walk is different: Carry nothing! No wallet, no cash, nothing. If a higgler approaches and says he wants to be my friend, he usually loses interest once I tell him I'm carrying no money. So much for "friend". . If I get thirsty I stop at a hotel bar and ask for a glass of water.

[Irine]

Hey Jojo. I think we might stay at the same place. I found the new guy was overdoing it a little bit. We struck up a conversation with him and he was worried he would not be taken seriously if he did not impose his will in the beginning of his new position. I guess I can understand that. After the two weeks we were there he was getting a better read on the people. Usually daily my wife and I would walk from our hotel down to Nirvana to visit friends and back again. We were parched after that but Paul would fix us up at the bar.

querty,
I noticed that as well, where I stay, they have a new security guy, and when vendors approach the chairs of the guest, he goes up and stands right next to the chairs, and watched and listens while transactions are made. If it gets to much, he tells them to move on. Also, I always every year, try and walk the beach, the whole beach at least a few times . I always start out at Cosmos. ( I know they are closed now ) I purchase a drink at their bar, and sit outside on the table, and drink it before my walk. When dudes come up and try and talk, the manager, or owner , not sure which, will come up and tell them to move on. I think years of complaining about this has been heard by the hotel owners.

[Accompong]

The thread is about Higglers and people's interaction with them both positive and negative. Somehow it devolves down to murders and crime as if the Higgler's interaction with a tourist has something to do with a tourist getting maimed or murdered by them. No one is saying that murders are not a problem but it is almost exclusively a "Jamaican problem" and Westmoreland Parish is much larger a problem than Negril.

Part of the colorful allure of Negril is the interaction with Jamaicans and Higglers too while on vacation. Discussions about the SOE had a thread and seems a more proper place to discuss that problem.