10-16-2015, 09:39 AM
returning to the OP topic of Longwood... sure kill each other off, but mess with tourism and things get serious.
Negril Stakeholders Wary Of Spillover Violence
"http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20151016/negril-stakeholders-wary-spillover-violence"
some interesting points (to me) in the latter part of the article:
- the largest construction project in history of Negril (presumably he meant the Royalton) will bring in more criminals (and squatters). I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense.
- crime is already bad this year and come Nov/Dec it will get worse b/c people want their Christmas $ (I've heard this theme before: crime goes up before holidays and start of the school year)
- we (hoteliers/tourism) can't hide anything anymore b/c of the internet (implies they used to hide bad stories - which I think we mostly all knew anyway)
- we can't reply to concerned guests/internet users that we're doing anything about crime, b/c we're not
- hustlers and criminals have no respect for the courtesy corps officers on the beach ( I witnessed pure fire from a vendor on last visit "tell yah boss, mommy & daddy can't get food to eat, there will be riots, there will be war")
Negril Stakeholders Wary Of Spillover Violence
"http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20151016/negril-stakeholders-wary-spillover-violence"
some interesting points (to me) in the latter part of the article:
- the largest construction project in history of Negril (presumably he meant the Royalton) will bring in more criminals (and squatters). I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense.
- crime is already bad this year and come Nov/Dec it will get worse b/c people want their Christmas $ (I've heard this theme before: crime goes up before holidays and start of the school year)
- we (hoteliers/tourism) can't hide anything anymore b/c of the internet (implies they used to hide bad stories - which I think we mostly all knew anyway)
- we can't reply to concerned guests/internet users that we're doing anything about crime, b/c we're not
- hustlers and criminals have no respect for the courtesy corps officers on the beach ( I witnessed pure fire from a vendor on last visit "tell yah boss, mommy & daddy can't get food to eat, there will be riots, there will be war")
