Poverty_In_Paradise

Poverty In Paradise Poverty in Paradise Beautiful white sand beaches, all year sunshine, deep blue sea, beautiful mountains, great plains, rafting down the Rio Grande, climbing Dunns River Falls, great Reggae music, and an abundance of Red Stripe Beer; its paradise. Does this place sound familiar' These are a few of the clichés used to describe the beautiful Island of Jamaica and attract pleasure-seeking tourists. What though, is the reality of that Paradise' Is it all hay and sunshine' Jamaica is indeed a beautiful Island. It’s large array of indigenous flora and beautiful fauna as well as its diverse population have made it a major tourist attraction. Infact, it was the tourists who dubbed it ‘Paradise.’ A treck to the Blue Mountain peak is invigorating, a cold Red Stripe on a hot day is refreshing, ackee and saltfish is sumptuous, jerk pork, fried fish and bammy, manish water and Reggae Music is the ‘life’. It’s a perfect picture painted for Tourists and it’s the life lived in the resort areas. Jamaicans don’t live in the resort areas. They are not even allowed to tourists, paradise, beautiful, rate, jamaica, high, beaches, reserved, it’s, island, foreign, dollars, without, white, school, sand, one, make, jamaicans, jamaican, islanders, employment, don’t, countries, cars, can’t, bauxite, areas, year, while, visit, thatch, take, sunshine, stripe