01-14-2016, 09:12 AM
Truth is - visitors do drive the truck on certain things. Its the visitors that are most up in arms about this because they love being able to go out and eat street - as is done in just about every country on the planet.
I'm with Westenders on this...like I said even though I'm only here for a relatively short time what happens in Negril affects me as much as it does my friends who are here all the time...for their sakes and for mine. It was a bit weird driving down the beach road and not seeing a single jerk pan set up. Its weird to not be able to go downtown and pick up bags of oranges as we do regularly while we are here for juice.
While its true that we as visitors have absolutely no say in how Jamaicans handle their country we can still speak up for those being "persecuted" for no reason. Still....they need to speak up for themselves as well. In discussing this with my neighbors a couple of days ago there was speculation of riots on Wednesday, which of course there wasn't. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Portia should be calling for an election very soon too.
I'm with Westenders on this...like I said even though I'm only here for a relatively short time what happens in Negril affects me as much as it does my friends who are here all the time...for their sakes and for mine. It was a bit weird driving down the beach road and not seeing a single jerk pan set up. Its weird to not be able to go downtown and pick up bags of oranges as we do regularly while we are here for juice.
While its true that we as visitors have absolutely no say in how Jamaicans handle their country we can still speak up for those being "persecuted" for no reason. Still....they need to speak up for themselves as well. In discussing this with my neighbors a couple of days ago there was speculation of riots on Wednesday, which of course there wasn't. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Portia should be calling for an election very soon too.
"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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