03-12-2015, 09:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2015, 09:56 PM by rastagirl777.)
"At the rate the bullets are flying it's just a matter of time before an innocent tourist/vacationer/expat takes one. "
I find this to be a hysterical statement.
"My next trip is planned for the beach as well, but a part of me wants to change it up to Costa Rica. "
A response to hysteria
"it's just a matter of time . . . a lot of tourists sit at the corner bar . . . one of these days, one of those tourists will be there when a shooting happens . . . "
And...more hysteria
"Just cancelled my April trip, to Negril that is"
And another reaction to the hysteria
...I'm tired of cutting and pasting. But these kinds of statements and responses are useless as far as trying to do something about the problem. I admire my friend for stepping up and writing the letter and I plan to take her lead with some letter writing of my own! And I'm not saying that thread did not produce some good helpful discussion - in re-reading it there was more of that than the hysteria. Facebook hysteria is rampant though - so I just don't read it. I'm all about free speech.
Its a situation where we as non-citizens are helpless. Letter writing to the newspapers, JTB, Negril Resort Board, the Chamber of Commerce or to Wyckem McNeil (I screwed the spelling of his first name) is a way we can try to help, if we care to do so.
Geez, I lived in Manhattan in the early 80's. There were some REAL rough neighborhoods and many unsavory ones. If there was a Facebook or Trip Advisor then do you think tourists would have been cancelling their trips?
I find this to be a hysterical statement.
"My next trip is planned for the beach as well, but a part of me wants to change it up to Costa Rica. "
A response to hysteria
"it's just a matter of time . . . a lot of tourists sit at the corner bar . . . one of these days, one of those tourists will be there when a shooting happens . . . "
And...more hysteria
"Just cancelled my April trip, to Negril that is"
And another reaction to the hysteria
...I'm tired of cutting and pasting. But these kinds of statements and responses are useless as far as trying to do something about the problem. I admire my friend for stepping up and writing the letter and I plan to take her lead with some letter writing of my own! And I'm not saying that thread did not produce some good helpful discussion - in re-reading it there was more of that than the hysteria. Facebook hysteria is rampant though - so I just don't read it. I'm all about free speech.
Its a situation where we as non-citizens are helpless. Letter writing to the newspapers, JTB, Negril Resort Board, the Chamber of Commerce or to Wyckem McNeil (I screwed the spelling of his first name) is a way we can try to help, if we care to do so.
Geez, I lived in Manhattan in the early 80's. There were some REAL rough neighborhoods and many unsavory ones. If there was a Facebook or Trip Advisor then do you think tourists would have been cancelling their trips?
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