Sorry Dana1 I posted before I saw your post. This is truly heartbreaking.

The interesting thing is that when you're in Negril you are constantly bombarded with vendors trying to sell their wares. Most of what they are trying to sell don't appeal to a large majority of the tourists. The sales pitch goes immediately from bandannas and wrist bands to ganja, ecstasy, cocaine, etc. It then goes immediately from there to begging for money because they are poor and their sister needs a crotch operation or something.

This comes across as just pure desperation and I'm sorry for their situation but they aren't offering something that I need.

These vendor's would clean up if they offer something tourists would really want like great jerk chicken or pork on the beach like Dean with his jerk pork or Norman with his patties.

Most of the beach higglers would make a fortune if they realized this simple fact.

Get a good recipe and sell it on the beach. Word of mouth will eventually bring in many customers.