How do the businesses in Negril determine their exchange rates?

[Flipadelphia26]

Another Negril apologist?

That's not the point, and you know it. The USD is widely accepted in many places all over the world because there are lots of American tourists carrying them. If there was a need for business owners to accept $J where I live, they would. But since there is absolutely zero demand, it doesn't happen.

I have travelled to Mexico many times, used USD, and most businesses don't play these games with the exchange rates. They also give change in USD when asked. I have spent time all over the Caribbean and not come across this.

I'm not a "Negril Apologist". It just seems to me like you are making mountain out of a mole hill. Perhaps you should pick another vacation desitnation? I personally learned the first time I stepped foot on the Island, that it was easier and more cost effective to exchange money at the Cambio and use the local currency. Your ability to use USD in Mexico or elsewhere more easily, is completely irrelevant.