"Only tourists call Jamaica 'paradise'"

[A_J]

tanks for de replies!

goldilocks - well said.

jasperso - sorry, disagree.

ras walleye - me too, but i don't support mi wife's family. maybe you are de better mon? :-)

[jasperpso]

is there a direct correlation to tourism, and the fall of agriculural jobs? i agree totally that they need a economy more self sufficient on jamaican resources.. but in the mean time, i cant believe that if all americans stopped going to jamaica, that they would be better off.. no way..

[jeannieb]

jamaica was better off pre-American-tourism. they had a middle class and self-sufficient agriculture once.

What I gathered from the book was that Jamaica may have/would be better off if the British were still in power. There were still tourists when the British were in control.