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Jamaica Tourists Told to Stay in Hotel Rooms Due to High Murder Rate
Ammoland ^
| 26 January, 2018
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 01/29/2018 8:37:31 AM PST by marktwain
British Tourists flock to Jamaica, where they tend to stay in fenced in tourist hotels that are off limits to most locals. Now they being told to stay in their rooms.
The reason: sky-high murder rates and a recent spate of killings.
From mirror.co.uk:
British holidaymakers in Jamaica have been told to stay in their resorts by the Foreign Office after a state of emergency was declared following a series of shootings.
Troops have been put on the streets following the killings in Montego Bay, which is popular with tourists.
It follows a series of shootings including a driveby shooting which killed one person, and the shooting of another four times on a roundabout near to the main airport Sansgster international on Tuesday.
The country's Prime Minister issued a State of Emergency and put security services and troops on the street to tackle the gunmen after a record 335 murders last year in the area.
He has now ordered a massive house-to-house search in the St. John's area for the gunmen and tourists are being tole to stay in their hotel rooms.
The 2017 murder rate for Jamaica was 42.6 per 100,000 population, one of the highest in the world. It is not as high as Baltimore, Maryland, where the rate reached 55.8 in 2017. Many attribute the Baltimore murder rate to a lack of police presence. Police drastically reduced their activities after several officers were charged in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray. The officers were eventually found not guilty of all charges.
In the article in the Mirror, this excuse is given:
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; jamaica; murder; shole; tourists
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After 55 years of development, and one of the strictest and most draconian gun laws on the planet, Jamaica has managed to raise its murder rate 1100%.
In 1962, before independence, the murder rate in Jamaica was 3.9 per 100,000, lower than the U.S. average murder rate.
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:37:31 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
One Love! One Heart!
Let’s get together and feel alright.
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:38:32 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: marktwain
To: marktwain
All the good Jamaicans went to Britain in the 50s and 60s.
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:39:52 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: marktwain
To: marktwain
And Jamaica BANS guns.
How can this be?????
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:41:13 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: marktwain
Not a lot of muzzies there, so who’s causing the problem? Finnish nuns on vacation?
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:41:46 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Doing more of what fails is the definition of liberalism and insanity.)
To: marktwain
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:42:25 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: marktwain
Sounds like Conan O’Brien’s next working vacation!
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:42:36 AM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: marktwain
But remember, it is NOT a s******e country. It is a wonderful and vibrant place and their people need to be allowed to immigrate here.
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:42:44 AM PST
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: marktwain
theyve got to erase the hate and come together as a community for sustainable fish and the children. Love Trumps hate. peace out
To: goldendelicious
I thought Ganja was supposed to make you mellow.
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01/29/2018 8:44:01 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: marktwain
Those dudes don’t know how to keep the finger on a weapon. Two of them have it directly on the trigger. Lets hope for an accidental discharge!
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posted on
01/29/2018 8:45:07 AM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
Wow, I didn’t know that Jamaica had Teens too, poor fellows must be oppressed
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01/29/2018 8:46:47 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: marktwain
When I was in Jamaica you could get 20 years in prison for having a bullet in your pocket. Its a total chithole.
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01/29/2018 8:46:55 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: marktwain
Many attribute the Baltimore murder rate to a lack of police presence.
There is little police presence in my town and the murder rate is zero.
To: I want the USA back
Nope, the Norwegian biathlon team. Those blonde, white guys and their guns, geez!
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01/29/2018 8:49:26 AM PST
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: FatherofFive
Negligent discharge pointed in an unsafe direction, like right at their fellow gang members
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01/29/2018 8:49:45 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
To: outpostinmass2
I live near Baltimore. There are police and camera’s all over the place.
Now, rightfully, I assume most police are checking in, driving around and going home since they know the department and the politicians don’t have their backs.
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01/29/2018 8:51:42 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
To: marktwain
Must be the white tourists committing all those murders...
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01/29/2018 8:52:14 AM PST
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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