bob, i am fully aware that there are incidents on all the islands. wherever there are hordes of poor and desperate people, they will find foreigners to be easy targets of opportunity. it is not uncommon for agencies like the US State Department to make hyperbolic and melodramatic assessments of the conditions, portraying these places to be precipitously dangerous, when, in reality, they are not that dangerous for tourists. places like Trini and Jamaica have high rates of violence, but most of it is gang and politically motivated. it does not affect the tourist segment as much as it is portrayed to do.
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bob, i am fully aware that there are incidents on all the islands. wherever there are hordes of poor and desperate people, they will find foreigners to be easy targets of opportunity. it is not uncommon for agencies like the US State Department to make hyperbolic and melodramatic assessments of the conditions, portraying these places to be precipitously dangerous, when, in reality, they are not that dangerous for tourists. places like Trini and Jamaica have high rates of violence, but most of it is gang and politically motivated. it does not affect the tourist segment as much as it is portrayed to do.
Almost all the islands are the same as the DR. There is a certain segment of the population in almost every country that preys on tourists, and then there is the group that normally preys on their own people but will attack the tourist or expat when the opportunity arises.
Crime and Safety in Jamaica - How to Stay Safe and Secure on a Jamaica Vacation
bob, did you bother to read this part?
Jamaica has one of the world's highest per-capita murder rates, and a 2010 state of emergency threw the harsh glare of publicity on the violent gang and drug culture in the capital, Kingston. Violent crime can be a real problem in Kingston and other parts of the country, but typically such crimes involve attacks by Jamaicans on other Jamaicans and revolve around drugs, gangs, politics, poverty, or revenge.
Gorgon, although I have been on dr1 and reading your posts for a few years and have agreed with you on many occasions
you are stubborn in the dictionary sense as well as presenting your positions in a far to argumentative stance. You do not need to always react to a disagreement with your position. It is a sign of immaturity. No offense as you often present cogent and
logical responses. You need not react or respond to every post.
,att
you are stubborn in the dictionary sense as well as presenting your positions in a far to argumentative stance. You do not need to always react to a disagreement with your position. It is a sign of immaturity. No offense as you often present cogent and
logical responses. You need not react or respond to every post.
,att
sosuamatt, first off, thanks for your complimentary remarks. secondly, let us get some things in perspective here. i might be argumentative, and that is my nature. however, i can never be accused of having started a fight here. i respect everyone's right to have a differing opinion. it is the presentation that bothers me. how is it that i have never fought with a guy like windeguy, whose politics are so radically different than mine? why do we have a cordial relationship? how is it that i can have a very good relationship with posters like Berzin, and Greydread, and Drob, and Africaida, and Lucifer, even when we have differences of opinion? know why? they respect my right to speak.
i do, however, agree with you about responses to every posting. life is a learning curve, even when you are old. some postings are not worthy of a response.
i rest my case. other guys have offered answers and advice on myriad topics, but nobody accuses them of trying to be smart...
i wonder why that only applies in certain cases. Frank, i will try to comply with your expectations, and reserve my observations for topics like rap music.
The article says (approximately) 'in morning hours'. Was it dark 0h-thirty, or was it 10:00 am?
Our house was on San Felipe in PoP in the 80s. Our door was usually open. Though the red light district on 30 Marzo wasn't far off, the neighborhood was nonetheless peaceful and dead quiet at night.
Things definitely have changed, and citizens, ex-pats or no, have every right to be greatly alarmed.
Our house was on San Felipe in PoP in the 80s. Our door was usually open. Though the red light district on 30 Marzo wasn't far off, the neighborhood was nonetheless peaceful and dead quiet at night.
Things definitely have changed, and citizens, ex-pats or no, have every right to be greatly alarmed.
I read the whole article; perhaps you should do so as well( you know, the part about sexual attacks on tourists by resort workers). I have also been to Jamaica and would return to visit. I'd like to visit all the islands. So far I 've been to the Bahamas, Bermuda, Grenada, Cuba, the DR, Jamaica, the US Virgin Islands, Margarita Island Venezuela. There's a lot left to visit. Only time and money in the way.
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when you pay for my electricity, and my laptop, and my internet, then i will explain my posting habits to you. you really must have very little things of interest in your life , insofar as my posting habits are of interest to you.
i read the whole article, bob. i know sufficiently enough about that country that i could have written it myself.
did not mean to hurt you, Mack. i just wondered why a guy like you, with whom i have never exchanged words, finds it necessary to get into the piling on party. on the subject of posting; you have posted at the rate of about 1 post every 6 days. do you mean that i rise to the level of importance that you would waste one of those postings attacking me?
Jamaica has a similar problem, but to a lesser degree. every vacation destination has the same issues of tourist safety. it is similar to the DR, but not to the same degree of severity.