FALMOUTH, Jamaica — Tourists emerge by the hundreds from a towering, 16-deck megaship docked at the Caribbean’s newest cruise port. They squint in the glare of the Jamaican sun, peer curiously at a gaggle of locals beyond a wrought-iron fence, and then roar out of town on a procession of air-conditioned tour buses.
Few stop to buy T-shirts, wooden figurines, or beach towels from the dozens of merchants lining the road outside the fence, or visit the colonial-era buildings that dot the town. Not many even venture beyond the terminal’s gates, unless it’s in one of the buses that whisk them past increasingly disgruntled vendors and taxi drivers.
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Missing from this article is any mention of the scores of people robbed, raped and killed by local Jamaicans. Jamaica is a very, very dangerous place to visit locally. It would be wonderful if that wasn't so. Maybe if the locals could coordinate with the authorities and set up some kind of checkpoint access to markets. Irresponsible and politically correct journalism going on here. The article could at least mention the fact that people think it's dangerous and then talk about how it is now safer, if that is the case.