GOOD POINTS MADE ABOUT SAFETY. When you pack your bags to travel, DON'T leave your common sense at home. This applies to the transportation, whether you plan to ride route cab or charter. It if is not a RED plate, it is not LEGIT! You would not jump into a stranger's car back home in the states, why in the world would you do so in another country.

Another thought, the presence of another Jamaican in the car does NOT guarantee that there will be "no shenanigans." It could be a tandem operation. Once when I was coming out of Sun Beach to go back home to Hanover, a car stopped like a taxi with a lovely young woman in the front seat. My first clue was when the young woman was the one who asked me "you need a ride sweetie?" That turned me off even before I noted that the plate was white. I refused and waited for a legal route cab. My Jamaican friends assured me that it was very likely that this was a potential set up as it would put most people at ease to see a young woman in the front. Little do they know she could have been truly riding "shot gun." If you get into the front seat of a "white plate taxi" just because someone is in the back, you don't know if they are passenger or partner. It is not worth the risk.