Jamaica
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | November 20th, 2001 | Trackback
Three days of gang killings in Kingston prompted soldiers to sweep into the area to contain the violence Nov. 18. A 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. curfew was imposed in the communities of Matthew’s Lane and Tel Aviv, and traffic and public transit were diverted from the areas. Such violence is common in the capital, usually in the area of West Kingston, but it seldom affects the main tourist areas of Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Negril, or interior districts.
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Jamaica
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | November 7th, 2001 | Trackback
Jamaican police have gone overboard in their effort to protect tourists from aggressive hawkers in Montego Bay. Recently police rounded up homeless people under the pretense of offering them medication and drove them fifty miles away, abandoning them in a remote area. There is little dispute about the problem of overzealous hawkers in the tourist areas or Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, but this method of handling them is not what the government had in mind. The officers who were responsible were reassigned to desk jobs.
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