What's Up Jamaica

Earlier this week, a tourist was chopped with a machete and seriously injured after criminals invaded a Negril resort on the West End. Funnily I found only one reference to this madness in the online media. Yes, keep it hush hush to protect the fragile tourism product but at what time are we actually going to do something about Jamaica's crime problem? You can't keep things 'hush hush' forever and already Jamaica does not necessarily have a great name for itself with regard to crime.

It can't be overnight. It will clearly take something extraordinary to get into the mind of a dumbo crook who doesn't put one and one together to get two and realize that if you rob and chop a tourist today, that might lead to less visitors to the island tomorrow because of the bad experience of one. So who him going to rob and chop then? It's almost as though we want to eat at our own flesh!