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Quote Originally Posted by Accompong View Post
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The beach may be "public" but that doesn't give anyone the right to be a "vendor" there without the proper documentation and licensing.]

How does one know which vendor has the proper documentation and licensing?
When I am on vacation, I don't worry about how the Jamaican government enforces their laws so I buy or don't buy articles for sale based on anything by my needs. What if they don't have the proper documentation and licensing?

Not my problem but that still doesn't make them in the "right" to be a vendor without it. As time has gone on over the past three plus decades I have been going to Jamaica, I have seen positive but mostly incremental changes in regulating vendors and higglers. One thing is for sure. The government makes money of licensing these people so I believe it will continue to get better organized and enforced.

I work in the hospitality industry in So. Florida and sometimes despise the government requiring all those fees for licensing but it does keep unlicensed businesses from infringing on my business as well.

Again. Just my opinion.