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One generally appreciates the 'richness' of Jamaica after being away for extended periods.
Need not go into stuff like great climate, productive soil types...and stuff like that.
[It's not the country...it's the people--stupid!!]
I have seen the impact of losing portions of the bauxite industry.
Believe it or not, losing the tourism industry will be the final fatal blow for the tiny island.
If strong actions are not taken now, Jamaica could to be heading to what happened few days ago to the Mexican resortion town of Acapulco.
Just a taste of what happened:
A series of drug-related attacks have left 24 people dead in Mexico in one unusually bloody day, 13 of them in the popular resort city of Acapulco.
Two decapitated men were found on a scenic road packed with nightclubs in Acapulco while another man was found shot to death on the edge of the city.
Gunmen also killed five police officers on patrol in Tuncingo, a rural area outside Acapulco. In the same area, police found the bullet-ridden bodies of five other men, including two who had been beheaded.......
Additionally, today:
The drug wars in Mexico took an ominous turn over the weekend when a US consulate employee and her husband were killed as they left a children's birthday party in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city.
Only minutes earlier gunmen also killed the Mexican husband of another member of the consular staff and wounded his two children.
While a number of US citizens have been killed in Mexico's increasingly bloody drug wars between rival cartels, it is the first time an American government employee has been killed.
President Barack Obama has expressed outrage over the killings, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon promised a swift investigation.
Need not go into stuff like great climate, productive soil types...and stuff like that.
[It's not the country...it's the people--stupid!!]
I have seen the impact of losing portions of the bauxite industry.
Believe it or not, losing the tourism industry will be the final fatal blow for the tiny island.
If strong actions are not taken now, Jamaica could to be heading to what happened few days ago to the Mexican resortion town of Acapulco.
Just a taste of what happened:
A series of drug-related attacks have left 24 people dead in Mexico in one unusually bloody day, 13 of them in the popular resort city of Acapulco.
Two decapitated men were found on a scenic road packed with nightclubs in Acapulco while another man was found shot to death on the edge of the city.
Gunmen also killed five police officers on patrol in Tuncingo, a rural area outside Acapulco. In the same area, police found the bullet-ridden bodies of five other men, including two who had been beheaded.......
Additionally, today:
The drug wars in Mexico took an ominous turn over the weekend when a US consulate employee and her husband were killed as they left a children's birthday party in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city.
Only minutes earlier gunmen also killed the Mexican husband of another member of the consular staff and wounded his two children.
While a number of US citizens have been killed in Mexico's increasingly bloody drug wars between rival cartels, it is the first time an American government employee has been killed.
President Barack Obama has expressed outrage over the killings, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon promised a swift investigation.