03-04-2015, 07:48 AM
"Convince" - of what? That there's crime in Negril? I don't believe there is any convincing to do...As I've said, there's been crime in Negril for decades. My first "encounter" with it was back in '93 or '94 when I was staying at SamSara and one of the guest's room was robbed while they were down at the pool.
They left the door unlocked.
In 2009 my friend Brenda and her boyfriend visited Negril for their second time (his 2nd actually - her 3rd). They went up to check out the Parkinson Great House in Good Hope with two other friends of their's only to meet two masked gunmen demanding their stuff. These guys taunted them - pushed the gun in the face of one of their friends, punched Brenda's boyfriend in the stomach. Yeah...they were quite shaken up.
Brenda and her boyfriend returned to Negril every year after that - 5 more years until she died. When she returned from her last trip to Jamaica a few weeks after she was told to get her affairs in order. When asked what she planned on doing (probably medically at that point) she turned to her boyfriend and said "let's go back to Negril...tommorow".
They left the door unlocked.
In 2009 my friend Brenda and her boyfriend visited Negril for their second time (his 2nd actually - her 3rd). They went up to check out the Parkinson Great House in Good Hope with two other friends of their's only to meet two masked gunmen demanding their stuff. These guys taunted them - pushed the gun in the face of one of their friends, punched Brenda's boyfriend in the stomach. Yeah...they were quite shaken up.
Brenda and her boyfriend returned to Negril every year after that - 5 more years until she died. When she returned from her last trip to Jamaica a few weeks after she was told to get her affairs in order. When asked what she planned on doing (probably medically at that point) she turned to her boyfriend and said "let's go back to Negril...tommorow".
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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