06-20-2016, 08:44 AM
I spoke to my friend in Negril on Saturday...the soldiers are there. She said the last time she remembers soldiers being in Negril was when the Valentines Day Riot happened some 20 odd years ago.
She and my other friends there are grateful for their presence and hoping they will begin and continue what will be a long process of making the place safe again. She also told me that unmarked police cars have been cruising the west end at night. Police out at night patrolling...I'll take that.
I'll take anything that will help this situation and I'm glad this tragedy with this tourist has sparked some action. Lord knows these measures are long overdue.
As far as soldiers and tourists - when you travel around the world some soldiers in airports are not an uncommon sighting. Is it unsettling? A little. When my god daughter traveled to Israel with her Birthright group they had armed soldiers with them the entire time, even a few undercover Mosad agents at times.
After 9-11 soldiers were a constant presence for at least a year in every airport I traveled to. I got used to seeing army vehicles and armed soldiers at the approaches to the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges and at all the crossings in and out of Manhattan.
I say bring it. And bring it hard. They seem to be making some headway with the bike thing, did some raid in Redground I hear. I even read they've identified a suspect or suspects...its wait and see now. Its going to be a long summer.
She and my other friends there are grateful for their presence and hoping they will begin and continue what will be a long process of making the place safe again. She also told me that unmarked police cars have been cruising the west end at night. Police out at night patrolling...I'll take that.
I'll take anything that will help this situation and I'm glad this tragedy with this tourist has sparked some action. Lord knows these measures are long overdue.
As far as soldiers and tourists - when you travel around the world some soldiers in airports are not an uncommon sighting. Is it unsettling? A little. When my god daughter traveled to Israel with her Birthright group they had armed soldiers with them the entire time, even a few undercover Mosad agents at times.
After 9-11 soldiers were a constant presence for at least a year in every airport I traveled to. I got used to seeing army vehicles and armed soldiers at the approaches to the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges and at all the crossings in and out of Manhattan.
I say bring it. And bring it hard. They seem to be making some headway with the bike thing, did some raid in Redground I hear. I even read they've identified a suspect or suspects...its wait and see now. Its going to be a long summer.
"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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