Prejudice at Aqua Sol beach
published: Friday | February 7, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I RECENTLY spent three weeks in Jamaica staying with family for Christmas. I spent many days at Aqua Sol beach, Montego Bay, where I watched in disgust as policemen moved Jamaican people to another side of the beach to make way for tourists from the ship. If my family members were with me, would we have been separated? In protest I also moved. As I was walking to the other side of the beach a Jamaican man shouted to me "go back to your side of the beach".
Is it any wonder when I visit Jamaica people shout after me WHITE girl. I am a BLACK woman and my roots are in Montego Bay. Please do not insult me by calling me WHITE. I ask the people of Jamaica will you be accepted on the beach when the tourists have gone? Do not accept this treatment, after all whose country is it? Tourists must not be separated. If they choose Jamaica as a holiday destination they must take it and the people as they find in it!
