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10 comments to I cover the waterfront

• BarbadosInFocus

  May 9, 2007 at 8:42 pm · Reply

  Redevelopment of the harbor seems like the only way to bring back whatever luster was there before. In Barbados The Wharf (including a complete new bridge) was redeveloped. And now it is a wonderful place to go.

  Let us hope the same can happen with your Harbor.

• Global Voices Online » Jamaica: On the Waterfront

  May 10, 2007 at 6:46 am · Reply

  [...] Stet conducts a tour down to the neglected Kingston waterfront: “I actually had a dream…of strolling along the boardwalk at dusk, coloured lights strung from the trees, kids running to the merry-go-round, and a band playing (softly!) by the pier. It’s not such an outlandish idea.” Share This [...]

• Mad Bull

  May 10, 2007 at 7:29 am · Reply

  Barbados in Focus is right… This is a possibility, once some of the negating factors can be tackled (crime & violence). The waterfront in Grand Cayman is an irie place as well.

• Kingston Girl

  May 10, 2007 at 8:35 am · Reply

  I love the waterfront downtown and was very happy working downtown, I prefer it as a working area to New Kingston! And I make sure that any visitors I have go down there, to the gallery and to wander along the waterfront. Unfrotunately though we can only do it in the day…

• irie.mobi » Jamaica: On the Waterfront

  May 10, 2007 at 3:40 pm · Reply

  [...] Stet conducts a tour down to the neglected Kingston waterfront: “I actually had a dream…of strolling along the boardwalk at dusk, coloured lights strung from the trees, kids running to the merry-go-round, and a band playing (softly!) by the pier. It’s not such an outlandish idea.” [...]

• ian g

  May 11, 2007 at 10:35 pm · Reply

  Downtown is not that bad especially right along the waterfront. A few blocks in can get really crazy any time of day or night. Schools with combat ready army in them, things like that.

  That being said the water is truly disturbing. Made only more so by the small children and old men swimming or fishing in the harbor. When the ferry used to go to Port Royal from there dozens of pickney would hop on the back to jump of as the ferry got into the harbor. Sometimes foolish onlookers would throw silver into the water for them to dive for. My farther described similar events from his childhood in New York City where kids would dive for money. So maybe it is something kids do around the world.

  I spent a few weeks in downtown planning and running a conference at the Jamaica Conference center. Which is worth a visit for the kitschy late 70′s decor mixed with weird not working UN equipment. The conference center has some very scenic spots in it that are worthy of pictures. The conference went well, with thousands of children and teachers came from through out the island to see what the project I had worked on did for schools.

  After the conference I woke up early the next day to go to the North Coast for another event. On the way we drove through what was obviously a murder scene in New Kingston. After a while you get to know what they look like. Being in Kingston you get to see a poor impersenation of CSI from your car window far too often. It turned out that a group of gunman had murdered police officers and security guards in retaliation for a don being gunned down in Denham Town. The murders occurred in New Kingston, Downtown, and Crossroads. The downtown murder was just in front of the conference center exit where I had been only hours earlier loading equipment.

  Strange thing was this gunman claimed they did this to protect Denham Town. Yet it was the very same children from their Denham Town that were at the conference getting interviewed about what they had accomplished in their schools as part of this conference. Yet all any knew of these kids was the violence to “protect” their community, not the good deeds they had done in their schools. That too me was the essence of my time in Kingston.

• lucy p

  May 13, 2007 at 5:15 am · Reply

  ria, you missed a hot spot: the rather dishy fisherman… his TYRE has a hotspot… and he doesn’t! ;) you clever thing you. I’d love to do these panoramics… but I deleted the software and can’t find it again!!!! :(

• Zinnia Cyclamen

  May 15, 2007 at 2:51 am · Reply

  Top picture caption. ‘Dis a pier’ hahahahahahaha

• Ria

  May 28, 2007 at 8:00 am · Reply

  I wondered if anyone would comment on the caption, Zinnia. In addition to the wordplay, there’s also a nod to Magritte’s painting, La trahison des images.

• Cruise Ships

  February 4, 2008 at 2:21 am · Reply

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