Last Feb My oldest daughter, her GF and my grandson came to Negril and stayed at Whitesands a few days before I came down. I basically told them to head north for dinner (towards Chances, Coco Lapalm...etc) at night til I showed up and it seemed fine. As for the assaults at the hotel, I guess that anything is possible but the staff at White Sands have been there so long with their family atmosphere it's hard for me to ever imagine anything like that happening there.