01-13-2016, 09:02 PM
Not sure if anyone here cares anymore...but as of today ALL street vendors have been shut down...this includes not only everyone's favorite jerk stands along the beach day and particularly night...but the nice honest veg and fruit vendors out by Taits Plaza, up West End Road (including my favorite Jelli guy!)...
Riding down the beach road I expected tires burning but...no. Just a sanitized road, no street activity save a tourist or two walking or jogging along the newfangled sidewalk with the kitchy bridges.
This is all in the name of road and street safety and to push back on the crime element that has been plaguing our Parish. Talking to locals in my neighborhood and beyond I'd thought there would be more outrage...while they feel for the honest folks put out of business either permanently or temporarily I'm finding in general tacit support of this action...apparently many of these vendors harbor criminals and the criminal element and are a huge part of the crime problem plaguing Negril and Westmoreland parish.
The biggest outrage I've seen so far are from tourists on Facebook - where am I to get my soup/jerk chicken/whatever....after the show at 2:00am?
Answer: Mi Yard
Me? I'm still not 100% getting what this is supposed to accomplish but who the hell am I? I live here but 3 months out of the year...my neighbors are stuck with this place all year long....
Riding down the beach road I expected tires burning but...no. Just a sanitized road, no street activity save a tourist or two walking or jogging along the newfangled sidewalk with the kitchy bridges.
This is all in the name of road and street safety and to push back on the crime element that has been plaguing our Parish. Talking to locals in my neighborhood and beyond I'd thought there would be more outrage...while they feel for the honest folks put out of business either permanently or temporarily I'm finding in general tacit support of this action...apparently many of these vendors harbor criminals and the criminal element and are a huge part of the crime problem plaguing Negril and Westmoreland parish.
The biggest outrage I've seen so far are from tourists on Facebook - where am I to get my soup/jerk chicken/whatever....after the show at 2:00am?
Answer: Mi Yard
Me? I'm still not 100% getting what this is supposed to accomplish but who the hell am I? I live here but 3 months out of the year...my neighbors are stuck with this place all year long....
"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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