Awww crap. Of all the countries I've been to Jamaica is my favorite. Of all the countries I've been to, and the ones I've never been to and never wanted to visit, my best friend picks this compost pile to get married in. And I bought our tickets.
Hopefully in the next 6 months, the fascist authorities will quell the local barbarians long enough for my friends to say their vows, tan me, and get the hell outta there.
If not, do the right thing.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
I lived just outside of Kingston in the summer of 1981. Manley had just been deposed, and over 1500 policemen were killed during the fighting. Seems the dirty communist and his acolytes did’t want to give up power.
These two slums are in Kingston and even locals didn't go there, but we had to drive thru them to go to the other side of the island.
The resorts are mostly on the other side of the island, and the closest crime comes to the resorts is locals kids selling pot to tourists, pinching white women at the beach or a traffic accident to/from the airport. The hotels and resorts take security very seriously, but serious crime can still happen just not too often.
And don't forget the pickpockets, available in almost any tourist trap.