Jamaica Tourists Told to Stay in Hotel Rooms Due to High Murder Rate

Ammoland ^ | 26 January, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[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:

[marktwain]

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.

[dfwgator]

One Love! One Heart!
Let’s get together and feel alright.

[Pirate Ragnar]

SH

[dfwgator]

All the good Jamaicans went to Britain in the 50s and 60s.

[realcleanguy]

A liberal paradise

[2banana]

And Jamaica BANS guns.

How can this be?????

[I want the USA back]

Not a lot of muzzies there, so who’s causing the problem? Finnish nuns on vacation?

[PGR88]

Shithole!!

[jiggyboy]

Sounds like Conan O’Brien’s next working vacation!

[wbarmy]

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.

[goldendelicious]

they’ve got to erase the hate and come together as a community for sustainable fish and the children. Love Trumps hate. peace out

[dfwgator]

I thought Ganja was supposed to make you mellow.

[FatherofFive]

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!

[dsrtsage]

Wow, I didn’t know that Jamaica had Teens too, poor fellows must be oppressed

[Georgia Girl 2]

When I was in Jamaica you could get 20 years in prison for having a bullet in your pocket. Its a total chithole.

[outpostinmass2]

Many attribute the Baltimore murder rate to a lack of police presence.

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There is little police presence in my town and the murder rate is zero.

[ManHunter]

Nope, the Norwegian biathlon team. Those blonde, white guys and their guns, geez!

[cyclotic]

Negligent discharge pointed in an unsafe direction, like right at their fellow gang members

[cyclotic]

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.

[Redbob]

Must be the white tourists committing all those murders...