06-13-2016, 04:04 PM
"You know, I watched for years as you shouted down anyone who questioned tourist safety in Negril. "Tourists are NOT targeted", "this stuff doesn't happen where tourists hang out", and many, many other ways that you belittled those who saw the forest through the trees. For a while there, you even had me thinking that I was over-reacting."
Up until this past Saturday tourists were NOT targeted. This stuff did NOT happen where tourists hang out.
So you can all feel good about being "right"...I've been sick about being "wrong". Be hysterical if that's what floats your boat - a tourist was killed and we don't know why...wrong place wrong time? robbery gone bad? something more personal? We may never know. But there, right in the middle of West End Road, 9:00pm - in between two popular resorts.
Maybe this is why there's a $2M JMD reward being offered. There's no reward offered to find the guy who killed Colin Lynch. Or the guy who shot up those 4 people on Lime Tree Lane...or the guy who gunned down the owner of Wise Choice's husband. The only glimmer of hope is that now that a tourist has been shot, the powers that be might actually HAVE to do something. If I were Jamaican or living in Negril full time that would both piss me off and make me "relieved".
To the businesses in Negril the sky is falling. And it will continue to for a while. In the end THEY are the folks that depend on a short 3 month period with which to feed their families. Aside from the grieving families of all dead, they lose and lose big. But go ahead and celebrate being "right all along". You were. It was a matter of time as it turns out. And now here we are.
Enjoy the Virgin Islands - my cousin used to rent a house in St. John for the winter, loved it. Be safe where ever you may roam.
Up until this past Saturday tourists were NOT targeted. This stuff did NOT happen where tourists hang out.
So you can all feel good about being "right"...I've been sick about being "wrong". Be hysterical if that's what floats your boat - a tourist was killed and we don't know why...wrong place wrong time? robbery gone bad? something more personal? We may never know. But there, right in the middle of West End Road, 9:00pm - in between two popular resorts.
Maybe this is why there's a $2M JMD reward being offered. There's no reward offered to find the guy who killed Colin Lynch. Or the guy who shot up those 4 people on Lime Tree Lane...or the guy who gunned down the owner of Wise Choice's husband. The only glimmer of hope is that now that a tourist has been shot, the powers that be might actually HAVE to do something. If I were Jamaican or living in Negril full time that would both piss me off and make me "relieved".
To the businesses in Negril the sky is falling. And it will continue to for a while. In the end THEY are the folks that depend on a short 3 month period with which to feed their families. Aside from the grieving families of all dead, they lose and lose big. But go ahead and celebrate being "right all along". You were. It was a matter of time as it turns out. And now here we are.
Enjoy the Virgin Islands - my cousin used to rent a house in St. John for the winter, loved it. Be safe where ever you may roam.
"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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