FYI…many "things' do not make it to the internet….many crimes, etc are NEVER reported and you certainly wont find them all on the online gleaner, etc… just because you dont see them Here-doesnt mean they didnt happen..the people that visit this site are only a small group out of the thousands that visit jam.- so to think that the only incidents that happen are what is reported here is ridiculous…
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Suzen,Originally Posted by suzengrace
You are apparently misinformed about the number of visitors to Negril.com. In the year 2012, we had about 405,000 unique visitors to the Negril.com site. In 2012. Negril had a total number of about 415,000 visitors.
The total visitor numbers to Negril for last year are not in yet, but since Jamaica broke the 2 million overnight guest last year for the first time, guesstimates are that nearly half a million should have visited our small resort town of Negril last year.
Negril.com received about 520,000 unique visitors last year, and once again our site traffic should be very close to the total number of actual visitors to Negril. For people coming to Negril who have internet access, which is virtually every single one of them, Negril.com is very easy to find.
And the vast majority of visitors do find it. We are the single largest Negril based information source on the internet, second to none. That is a fact that can be verified by the various internet ranking services. There is no other Negril focused website that comes near our visitor traffic.
Because of cellphones, smartphones, Negril.com, Twitter, Facebook, OGNR, the Gleaner, the Observer, the Star, Youtube, personal blogs, Tripadvisor, visitors own local newspapers and countless other resources available to everyone on the internet at a moment's notice, there are very few real incidents (along with a few fake ones) that do not make it to the internet nowadays. And with Negril.com being the largest Negril information source available, the true incidents do tend to make it here. To think otherwise is not understanding the reality of how invasive and fast information travels in the world today.
Some "incidents" are not reported such as the one recently mentioned by Muzikdoc (now reported) - that was because he didnt want the "fear mongers" to take what he considered a somewhat amusing incident and turn it into a "near robbery" as he he related here.
I am sure that some other incidents do go unreported by the people that it happened to because they simply dont want anyone else to know their business. It should be their right as human beings to choose whether or not what happens to them becomes public or not. Just because something happens to someone else does not mean that you have the right to know about it.
But even some of those stories become public and I have been asked by the alleged victim on a few occasions to remove threads about them and their incident because someone other than themselves had chosen to make it public. They wanted the right to privacy and did not want to have to get into detail and explain the real story since the second hand version being spread and speculated about was far from the truth of what had happened to them. So because of their right to privacy and not to have their lives exposed for the world to gossip about, we do honor their wishes and have removed those few threads.
And we have even had a case recently where a poster claimed to have had things stolen from their room during the night after a small dinner party with just a few friends. Another member was there at the same time and had a completely different take on the incident saying that they couldnt count the number of people who came and went from the room late into the evening where a rather loud open door party was held, a party that you could not miss seeing if you were staying on the property. There were countless opportunities to have items taken anytime during the evening, so to claim a room invasion during the night with no proof stretched credibility.
So the internet information pendulum can swing both ways, to allow people to know the truth about most incidents, and to correct the misinformation, rumor and speculation that often comes with these stories.
As has been said here many times, the Negril rumor mill is alive, well and active. The recent story about a taxi driver messing with a member by saying they missed Shaggy and Tessanne on New Years Eve at the Beach Park being the one that started 2014 off with a bang!
But thanks to modern technology and instant access to the internet, for you to think that there are many crimes that would have any bearing on or concern for tourists that do not make it to Negril.com is only speculation on your part. The facts do not tend to back up your statement. It is only your opinion, which by definition is not a fact.
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