SandyFeet: My family is from Brooklyn. I have been there more than 30 times. <BR><BR>I doubt that you have thought by the sound of it.

I would avoid:<BR><BR>The Island of Misfit Toys- That Charlie in the Box is a real jerk.<BR><BR>Other than that just stay away from Aruba and you'll be fine.<BR>

Wrong Again<BR>Definately know what I'm talking about I'm just a bridge away from Brooklyn.<BR>So you've been to Brooklyn 30 times!!!!<BR>WOW - I'm impressed

More worthy of The National Enquirer,the so-called 'amazing report' in The National Review cited above should be taken, as the publication itself, with a very big grain of salt. How conveniently the article's author (from one of those Uber-conservative Republican think tanks suspiciously named 'The Independent<BR>Board')forgets that Jamaica's problems<BR>are directly the result of Reagan-Bush policies which armed the country, stimulated drug traffic rather than countermanding it, and created the internecine turf-war battles of Kingston. As for the gist of the article, it's OLD news,a year old, and similar to much out of American cities on a daily basis.

You need to seriously reconsider your capacity for reasoned and objective thought, tivertonhouse.<BR>Look at this quote: "Jamaica's problems<BR>are directly the result of Reagan-Bush policies which armed the country".<BR><BR>Now that's just ridiculous.<BR>Jamaica's decline and the conditions that catalyzed it have been in place for decades, and are multifactorial...dependent on a variety of economic and social conditions. US policy has had very little to do with the sad state of affairs in Jamaica.<BR>And arming people does not itself create violence. If that were so the entire state of Texas would be a combat zone.<BR>Please refrain from posting such schlock.