08-02-2017, 02:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2017, 10:01 PM by CardBoardBox.
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addendum, on purpose so I can delete it, as it is about South Africa and this board should be about Jamaica.
trivia
There was one good result in a politically change country - when South Africa rulership went from white to black, they didn't just dispurse jobs to friends -- they hired qualified (and white) people for responsible positions/advisors. This is circa 1980 and I can not quote any sources but from someone living there when I visited; (his sentiments) 1. the picture presented (in the US press) was very biased, and 2. the divesiture (withdrawling of investments) by US companies and investment firms was very wrong and hindered the changes the world was clammering for.
So many years ago, but remember reading that there were buses for whites and buses for blacks? My business associate there said that anyone could ride in the white bus, but there was a fare difference; 40 cents for the white bus and 2 cents for other bus. Was he lieing to me?
re Jamaica,
BTW, panhandling, or begging for money, is the only option for some people on the island. It seems wrong and is annoying to the tourists, and I wonder/worry, if they are doing this at age 20, what are they going to do when they reach 40.
I wrote once that the tourists arriving by boat to visit the craft market were approached agressively by locals , leading to 60% not wanting to return to the island. The government was aware of this but the newspaper implied that the locals were doing what they did in order to surive, hence no crackdown by officials.
Negril on the other hand DID clamp down in the 90's on the beach, which was a blessing. I recall every few minutes someone would walk over trying to sell me something. Got tired of saying no thank you.
trivia
There was one good result in a politically change country - when South Africa rulership went from white to black, they didn't just dispurse jobs to friends -- they hired qualified (and white) people for responsible positions/advisors. This is circa 1980 and I can not quote any sources but from someone living there when I visited; (his sentiments) 1. the picture presented (in the US press) was very biased, and 2. the divesiture (withdrawling of investments) by US companies and investment firms was very wrong and hindered the changes the world was clammering for.
So many years ago, but remember reading that there were buses for whites and buses for blacks? My business associate there said that anyone could ride in the white bus, but there was a fare difference; 40 cents for the white bus and 2 cents for other bus. Was he lieing to me?
re Jamaica,
BTW, panhandling, or begging for money, is the only option for some people on the island. It seems wrong and is annoying to the tourists, and I wonder/worry, if they are doing this at age 20, what are they going to do when they reach 40.
I wrote once that the tourists arriving by boat to visit the craft market were approached agressively by locals , leading to 60% not wanting to return to the island. The government was aware of this but the newspaper implied that the locals were doing what they did in order to surive, hence no crackdown by officials.
Negril on the other hand DID clamp down in the 90's on the beach, which was a blessing. I recall every few minutes someone would walk over trying to sell me something. Got tired of saying no thank you.