About Renta-Dreads

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Why! Why is it big business?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"On Women Visiting Jamaica Just Wondering" </B></div> <div> <B>"I've been to Negril twice last year, and one of the first things I noticed were all these female walking down the beach holding hand like they are so much in Love with the Jamaica Men. It took me awhile to comprehend what I was seeing until someone told me; "OH, those are "Rent-A-Dreads." That was the first time I heard that expression... </B></div> <div> <B>I'm not stating that every woman who go to Jamaica go for that reason because as a woman I know that is not true, but it did make me wonder. And by the way, I've never seen that movie...." </B></div> <div> <B>Definition: What is a Rent-a-Dread?</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>(Hitched Male Prostitute)</B> </div> <bR> <div> I would say that 98% or more of the newer Rasta's or (Renta-dreads) are NOT from Westmoreland. Negril did experience a huge influx of outsiders coming all the way from as far as Kingston. </div> <div> The true Rastas that I grew up knowing, are not like what I am reading about. </div> <div> So let me say this very quickly in defense of the true Rasta's out there. Rastas like Bongo, Ivan, etc, etc. </div> <div> Persons like Prento, of the THATCHHUT are not from Negril. However, he too came with the influx of attractions that through Drugs, and the tourist trade got to Negril. </div> <div> Persons like <U>Marble</U>'s x-husband, Kojak is/were not from Westmoreland. </div> <div> However they came and as soon as something goes wrong, Westmoreland men get the blame.</div> <bR> <div> I am sure that had it not been for the Drug trade and the influx of all types of tourist, Sue's husband would never had venture pass the border of Bloody Bay (Hanover). </div> <div> Persons like Delroy of Miyard is/were not from Negril. They all came from far, attracted to Negril for their own common goal. And so their businesses attracted guys from their neck-of-the-woods, with an objectives. To get a white woman. Thus the Renta-Dread Trade. Unfortunately, there is no border to stop the influx of unsavory outsiders. Just take a look at the newer business places and you will see why Negril is experiencing this new trend. The role of the C.O.C. and Hotel Association lack the structure needed to see to these things. How do they expect to carry on a successful Tourism Trade/when they do not have the proper tools in place to protect tourists. </div> <div> I have seen more unsavory characters in and around Negril that Negril in many ways had become a turn-off to me. </div> <bR> <div> I never though that I would have seen the day when i have to walk with a body guard in Negril, against harassers, and of whom, I must have told 100+ times on any give visit that I am from Negril and do not need a companion. Luckily for me, at times it is the crack-heads that will warn the fools that "my man will shoot them,"; "her man will shoot you," and that is when they (respectfully)will leave me alone. I said it now, and i will say it again. In that back in 1990 when i tried to protect the many tourist, i came under attack from those that i tried to protect. I supported All-inclusive hoping that the other smaller properties would have got the message and learn to manage their properties in a way that would have protect persons like Sue from meeting up with the unsavory kind. </div> <bR> <div> I encourage "Meet the People Programs" of which Persons like Sue would have gotten introduced to families with means and ways of helping her to understand the culture. Meet decent Jamaicans. Not these gullible sharks on the beach front. </div> <div> Sue you are so right, as i have witness young boys (assuming that i am a foreigner. Yes, i look like a foreigner to them) yelling out to me that they are 'good pussy eater." </div> <div> Shockingly enough, they always assume that I don't understand the Jamaican dialect. It is always a shock to them when i respond in the Jamaican dialect. Somehow, they are told that that is what the White/ tourist/Foreigner women likes best.</div> <bR> <div> <B>One Solution: </B></div> <div> To the First time visitors. Get a sponsor. Arrange with the JTB for a sponsor with a reputable Jamaican family. </div> <div> II. go to an All-inclusive and learn to observe the culture in a more secluded, and peaceful environment.</div> <div> III. Message boards are good for somethings, However, messageboards also allow a lot of misleading information to flow. Many single women forget that the guys gossips more than the women, and they shared information as much. Getting on message boards and telling the world where you are staying and when you are arriving is a dangerous thing. </div> <div> My opinion of course. </div> <div> ~ Noamie~</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>"On Women Visiting Jamaica Just Wondering" </B></div> <div> <B>"I've been to Negril twice last year, and one of the first things I noticed were all these female walking down the beach holding hand like they are so much in Love with the Jamaica Men. It took me awhile to comprehend what I was seeing until someone told me; "OH, those are "Rent-A-Dreads." That was the first time I heard that expression... </B></div> <div> <B>I'm not stating that every woman who go to Jamaica go for that reason because as a woman I know that is not true, but it did make me wonder. And by the way, I've never seen that movie...." </B></div> <div> <B>Definition: What is a Rent-a-Dread?</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>(Hitched Male Prostitute)</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Jamaica </B></div> <div> <B>It is always our pleasure in sharing our community with you.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>You won't meet families of such on the Beaches of Negril.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Get to know</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>"Our Jamaica," of warm, friendly and caring people.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Just don't read about it, experience it, feel it, and know it.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>We are Jamaicans Promoting Jamaica, Our Island's Paradise!</B> </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Links: </B><B>Negril Hall of Shame </B></div> <div> <B>What you need to know: Our Resume to Success</B> </div> <div> <B>Bashing</B> </div> <bR> <div> The Amazing Black & White Connection </div> <div> Understanding the Jamaican Rasta Trend. </div> <div> Why is the trend so popular? </div> <bR> <div> <B>How does it relates, and to the extend of the role it plays on 'traditional vacationers' as well as the effect upon Global Tourism to Jamaica?</B> </div> <bR> <bR> <div> **Please note: All pictures posted on any internet becomes public domain. So don't call me, bawling. Go visit your attorney(s) pay them, and have the parasite(s) explain the rules/law to you!</div> <div> <B>Subject: Rentadreads can be an expensive experience as well as a painful one!! </B></div> <div> Sue M </div> <div> Tue Jun 11, 2002 12:05 am </div> <div> <B>(This story is told by Sue in her own words as to what can happen when a white woman goes on a Vacation, met up and marry a Beach Boy; mistaking fantasy for love).</B><B> </B></div> <div> "Not just done by Trevor but married him April 3rd (his birthday) 2001. I married him after much persuasion because I really loved him and believed he loved me too. He'd done really well in the year before (or so I thought then)and also believed he wanted to change his life for a 'more decent one" as he put it. I invested in the </div> <div> house he had just built and we set up in business together at Easy Rock. It turned out to be my worse nightmare............</div> <div> Three months later he went off with a rich American woman, Janey Fox from MI, who came into Easy Rock for dinner with a friend one night. </div> <div> She was really friendly to me but afterwards I was told she was really coming on to T behind my back and bragging about all the money she to build a house etc here. Anyone that knows T will understand he didn't think twice here, money being far more important than his new wife and business. Money & sex are T's two main reasons for living!!! </div> <div> He left me alone to run the business from that night and then our relationship seem to be one argument after another. I didn't know why at first until I discovered she had rented a hotel room for them that night and another time rented an apartment, where we used to live, just down the road from our own house ... it was so hurtful & embarrassing. But he came back time after time spending most nights with me even when she was there. He said it was just about money and he wanted to do things for us ... bullshit & sweetalk I believed for a time because I wanted too. Trevor can be so sweet and persausive when he wants too & he's a great fuck too which is hard to let go of!!!</div> <div> Then I realised there was beginning to be a pattern. Everytime she was about due to come back, and that was often,he got aggressive & violent accusing ME of sleeping with other men, calling me a whore & throwing me physically out of our home on a number of occasions. He made me so unhappy I lost 21 pounds in weight & looked awful. I tried to get him out of my life but he just made too much fuss at my business plave & everywhere if I refused to see him. </div> <bR> <div> She sent him $5,000 US, bought him an expensive truck, gold, clothes, fancy hire cars, hotel rooms. She wrote to him letting him know what goodies she was bringing. One time he hadn't answered her for 3 months and she said she was still coming and did not care he was married. He had obviously told her some terrible lies about me. "My wife doesn't understand me" stuff like married men in any culture I expect. </div> <div> Finally she moved here to build the house of his dreams. Not satisfied with 'thiefing' my husband she paid a truck driver to take our house away from Negril to Little Bay one day whilst I was at work. I was devasted at this.. how 2 people could be so cruel I can not comprehend. He also destroyed everything we had ever planted, chopping down whatever he couldn't uproot down to our ackee tree which had borne it's first fruit this year. Generally been a real nightmare where I tried to stand for myself as much as possible. Didn't help as I just kept getting hurt and he got more and more abusive. Trevor is without doubt the cruelest person I have ever met and I still can't believe what I allowed him to put me through. </div> <bR> <div> Janey is at present wrestling with the fact that he has had another woman on her land whilst she was in the USA. I have warned her and she has witnessed his violence but she believes his behaviour is all my fault??? </div> <div> She wont be the last & I wasn't the first I just wish somene had warned me ... these two people deserve each other .. the "nastiest rasta on the beach" as someone once described him .. T is just a very expensive fucking machine and Janey "a Christian" she calls herself ... and 2we are all sinners" is how she justifies her behaviour!! </div> <div> I hope no other woman has ever to go through what I have. And I am surviving downsizing my business to make it easier to manage .. I refuse to let these twoo cruel people drive me out of Jamaica ..</div> <bR> <div> "Sue" Responding to Question: <U>devilish_n_delightful@y...</U> </div> <div> Subject: Sounds just like my husband Trevor McKenzie (Clever T)(Sambo) </div> <div> If it is T he won't ask you for money for a while until he knows he's got you .. he'll feed and water you (paid for by another woman via Western Union), take you to meet family, give you hard luck stories (probably about me) as someone else said rightly on this board he's setting you up for bigger things .. trip to foreign, build a house for him, buy him a truck, gold or clothes .. there are many stories here all the same but with different players!! Ask yourself would you buy a car, house after 2 weeks for a man athome .. no will be the answer .. so WHY do women do it here so often ... cause the gigs are good at it .. playing us since they were about 14 lol ........ as women we are all the same and we need to acknowledge that and stop doing each other down .. none of us is better than the other ... we are all as they say here 'money' first & 'pussy second' .... the possesiveness is to flatter us (cave man stuff)and because they are scared of some other gig stealing us away and getting our cash first... trust me I know first hand ..... </div> <div> Read the recent gigolo story on Jamaicans/discussion groups .. you will understand all then ... good luck ... women reading this please learn to fuck and go ... much less painful and far less expensive ... lol</div> <bR> <div> <U>devilish_n_delightful@y...</U> wrote: </div> <div> "I was in Negril for only a short time and he became possessive of me,but in an endearing way, if that makes any sense at all. </div> <div> It was confusing to me, that he acted this way when we had only just met. </div> <div> For a while, I tried to get him to leave me alone, but he would have none of that and found me frequently when I was not trying for him to find me. </div> <div> -I TRIED TOO & HE ALWAYS SHOWED UP MYSTERIOUSLY (they have people </div> <div> tell them where you are). </div> <div> I was not particularly nice to him at first, and that seemed to fan the fires and he was more persistent. I thought that was charming, in a way. We never slept together, although he did try pretty hard. </div> <div> -I WAS A LITTLE MEAN - NOT TOO MEAN THOUGH, & I DID SLEEP WITH HIM </div> <div> MY LAST DAY THERE. </div> <div> - It is not my style to meet someone and fall right in bed with them. </div> <div> - The purpose of my trip was NOT for sex or anything like that - it was a vacation with a friend for relaxation. </div> <div> - He has called a couple of times since I came home - from his cell </div> <div> phone, not collect - and has BEGGED me to come back. He didn't ask for money during these calls. He didn't ask for money when I was in Negril, either. </div> <div> -I GOT CALLS - NOT COLLECT - FOR MONTHS, BEGGING ME TO COME BACK. </div> <div> - WHEN I WAS IN NEGRIL, HE OFTEN PAID FOR ME - I DIDN'T PAY FOR HIM. </div> <div> "If, in fact, he is a Rent-A-Dread shouldn't he have tried to get me to give him money. I don't know how the whole thing works" </div> <div> Response: </div> <div> NOT NECESSARILY. IF HE'S SMART & HE RECOGNIZES THAT YOU'RE NOT TOTALLY NAIVE, HE ISN'T GOING TO SCARE YOU AWAY BY ASKING FOR $$$ RIGHT AWAY. HE MAY HAVE BIGGER THINGS AT STAKE - LIKE AN EVENTUAL VISA. </div> <div> LET ME ASK YOU THIS? HOW LONG WERE YOU THERE? DON'T YOU THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT STRANGE THAT SOMEONE CAN BE THAT INTO YOU AFTERSUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME? EVEN IF YOU'RE A REALLY GREAT & BEAUTIFUL & SMART PERSON. </div> <div> KEEP IN MIND ALSO THAT ALMOST ALL THE GUYS WHO HANG OUT ON THE BEACH IN NEGRIL HAVE AT LEAST 1 GIRLFRIEND ABROAD. THAT'S STRANGE TOO, NO? </div> <div> THE WAY HE ACTED, & THE WAY YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW IS THE WAY THE RENT-A-DREAD THING WORKS. TO A TEE. </div> <div> - I WENT THROUGH THE EXACT SAME THING AS YOU & SINCE THEN HAVE STUDIED THE WHOLE THING INTENSIVELY QUITE A FEW TIMES. I BELIEVE IT IS A CLASSIC CASE.</div> <bR> <div> <B>From:</B> "Sue </div> <div> <B>Date:</B> Sun Jun 23, 2002 4:33 am </div> <div> <B>Subject:</B> Going public ? </div> <div> We have to go public & we have to be strong to stop this abuse which for many women here is to undergo serious violence, theft, fraud & very little support from Police. </div> <div> I would personally like to see us do something positive for the women abused .. often court is the final answer but by then the gigs have had your cash and you can't afford a lawyer .. in my case my husband has the best paid for by his latest rich USA woman ... she will pay for him to defend against a protection order for me and my right toregain my marital home I funded & she paid to take away for them ... </div> <div> we need a fund to help foreign women abused here ... in my case all contributions to pay a lawyer gratefully accepted sistren ....xx</div> <bR> <div> My Comment: Noamie </div> <div> I. I think the first issue or should i say 'reality check' here is </div> <div> identifying that " these guys, such as T is not the typical, honest, working Jamaican man. With this said, just so that when i read about "Jamaican men's are all dogs, etc, I don't have to go out defending the 'good Jamaicans' that you and i know. </div> <div> II. </div> <div> I myself having relate to women that "that guy is a dog" so don't get your heart set on him, have experience serious backlash from the same women that i was of the opinion that i was giving good advise or words of caution to. </div> <div> III. I am from Negril, Jamaica, as most of you are aware. Rest assure that every time that i am there, i often ran into guys who will try to talk to me. </div> <div> The first thing I do; is quiz my cousins. And believe </div> <div> me, i always take (follow) their advise. </div> <div> I don't believe in long distance relationship. </div> <div> I don't encourage supporting any man. I made this clear every time too. </div> <div> IV. Sue's story ran so familiar as i have seen many fell by the wayside. </div> <div> Ladies more often, refuse to take "some of the responsibility" for the role they play in the outcome. </div> <div> V. I think that Marble's Stories should give some of the women a better insight into the real world of Jamaica and its reality. Her stories coming from another white woman, who lived the life in Negril. </div> <div> VI. Jamaica is beautiful. Jamaica has its magic. However there is that which creates a balance. That is why this site is designed in a way that will present Jamaica as it is. Yes,Jamaica is a wonderful place to vacation. It is also a place werein real people lives (Islanders) in whatever social, political, economical welfare; a full representation of the world we live in. </div> <div> VII. The truth is, majority of Jamaican men and the decent ones will NOT Mess around with Tourist(s) or otherwise (WHITE WOMEN). They are incline to sticking to their own. Sorry ladies, however this is my culture and I am telling you what i know of it. </div> <div> VIII. Should you as a white women meet a Jamaican man outside of Jamaica, then your chance of a more meaningful relationship is likely. The barriers are not there, removing any doubts whatsoever about the objectives of the other parties. Example, "He's not interested in getting a visa, as he already had one. He's not interested in not working; he already has a job. Therefore you as the woman is not seeing him the man in a 'periphery mode' so to speak. </div> <div> VIIII. The woman is also not looking to take advantage of the man. Yes, there are many such cases, as some women looking to 'live permanently in paradise' failed to see the flip side to things. The opportunity of laying on the beach everyday, enjoying the warm Caribbean ambiance, is rather enticing. Not having to leave every three or six month for visa renewal, are some of the 'false impression' that got many woman caught in a net. Still, the question is, who is to blame? I don't have the answer. Do you? </div> <div> <B>X</B>. Think this: Would any decent woman go out on the street of America and picked-up a homeless man and bring him home? </div> <div> Would she also choose to do the said in her upscale home town? </div> <div> Of course, this is my views. </div> <div> <B>~Noamie~</B></div> <bR> <div> **Please note that this article is for awareness into the work and trend of the Rent-A-Dread. So Beware! Be smart! </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Web site Designed by: Noamie </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Visit Bob Marley House in Little Bay: See the "gentlier side of Paradise" </B></div> <div> <B>Visit Undiscovered Little Bay. </B></div> <div> <B>For more information come visit us. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sightseeing and Tours</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>---</B><B>---</B><B>---</B><B>---</B><B>---</B><B>---</B><B>---</B><B> </B></div> <div> Mayfield Waterfalls/Mountain Tour: </div> <div> Pick up at your hotel 9:00 a.m. </div> <div> Return to your hotel approx. 5:00 p.m. </div> <div> Includes: City Highlight tours; </div> <div> Mountain-side tour, and a drive through native towns. It also includes Red Stripe Beer/Rum Punch. </div> <div> The entire tour usually takes about 5-6 hours, but for private tours, you can stay at the falls as long as you wish. It takes about 1-1.15 hours to get to the falls from Negril (depending on traffic). </div> <div> The total package cost for 1-4 people is $150.00 (US). 5 or more are $40.00 (US) per person. </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Brimmer Hall Plantation</B></I><B>.</B> </div> <div> <B>"Brimmer Hall Plantation Tour" </B></div> <div> (Duration - 5 Hours 25 Minutes, from the Ocho Rios Area) </div> <div> Educational, enjoyable and exciting, the Brimmer Hall tour takes you to a working agricultural plantation, shopping in a haven of duty free shops and to the world famous Dunn's River Falls. </div> <div> A scenic 50 minute drive along the North Coast takes you into the parish of St.Mary, through the capital Port Maria where an early 18th century Anglican church stands (one of Jamaica's oldest churches) and on to Brimmer Hall Plantation.</div> <div> Brimmer Hall features a working agricultural plantation, a Great House and gift shop and the visit here includes a tour of the 18th century Great House, where antiques and history run rife and the plantation, giving details of the crops produced, such as banana, sugar cane, coconut and cocoa followed by a tasters feast!</div> <div> Returning to Ocho Rios through the lush countryside, the next stop is at one of Ocho Rios' shopping centers to make purchases at variety of duty free shops providing the best of jewelry, local crafts, island wear, coffee and spices.</div> <div> From shopping, you will be taken for a refreshing visit to Dunn's River Falls - a spectacular waterfall splashing 600 feet down tiers of smooth rocks to the beautiful blue Caribbean Sea. A rustic wooden staircase takes you down to the beach where you can begin your ascent up the icy cold cascades of crystal clear water with an experienced and friendly falls guide or you can just relax and enjoy the <U>view! </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth</B> </div> <div> <I><B>Reach(Reich)-Falls</B></I> </div> <div> <B>Beautiful~ Breath-Taking</B> </div> <div> <B>_______________________________</B> </div> <div> <B>**</B><B>*</B><B>**</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Reich Falls in Portland</B></I><I> </I></div> <div> ONE hundred and fifty dollars. That is Jamaican dollars! </div> <div> That's all it takes to buy you an afternoon of heaven - or close to it. </div> <div> It's one of the best earthly experiences you'll ever have. Orgasmic. Wet. Cool. Wet, then cool again. It's dark, sometimes dusky with a musky scent that drives you wild. It's the height of romance. </div> <div> And after the experience, Frank Clarke is eager to fetch you whatever you desire to get your blood racing again. </div> <div> He slices two hunks of harddough bread and offers it to the eager tourist and his lady who have just found nirvana in the cascading waters of the Reich Falls. Tired and totally sated, the Alabama couple takes the $50 meal of bread and Lucozade and heads back, to relax in one of the many jade coloured pools. After lunch, they'll take their lifeguard, Clarke's advice, and go beyond the waterfalls to the cave underneath where they can test Clarke's thesis that it's "one of the most erotic places in Portland." </div> <div> Afterwards they relate the experience: "You should try it," Bob grins. "Pity you have to be working, we swam a quarter mile up to the beautiful pools, jumped the falls and had the most amatory massage under the cascading water. This is a great relief from the summer heat." </div> <div> Clarke, the caretaker who conducts tours will tell you that he helped name this piece of paradise that was once referred to only as Drivers River. For 35 years he's been a part of the archaic paradise, "keeping it natural", building railings from bamboo, creating dirt steps, metal railings and several buildings including a bathroom on the property. He uses one of the shops to sell food  slices of bread, Lucozade, Chubby soft drinks and bulla. If that doesn't tickle your fancy, just a few feet away, a group of women sell corn and soup, and there's a souvenir stall. </div> <div> FAMOUS FOR THE LOVE SCENE IN THE TOM CRUISE MOVIE 'COCKTAILS' </div> <div> In Reich Falls, one of Portland's best attractions, one can find solace and ultimate comfort in the cool, clear waters under the watchful gaze of the Blue Mountains. The falls are famous for their place in the love scene in the 1980 Tom Cruise movie <I>'Cocktails'</I>. </div> <div> The spot is exquisitely peaceful as it is surrounded by rain forest and a series of waterfalls that tumble over limestone rocks as they lead from one pool to another. There are three caves under the falls where lovers often go for 'quiet time'. One cave, the Mandingo Cave has a whirlpool. </div> <div> A bit of caution is necessary though. The peaceful caves can be deceptive. Clarke says the waters run up to 25 feet deep and that he saves between 10 and 12 people from drowning daily. Sneakers aren't choice footwear. Most of the place is damp and dark and, in some cases, very slippery, something our photographer experienced when he tumbled and had to hang on to the rails for dear life. </div> <div> There is no electricity and Clarke says, that although it adds to the general archaic nature of the place, they crave the commodity. </div> <div> Surrounded by the quiet community of Reich, the journey begins as soon as you enter Portland. Greeted by the cool atmosphere and the cleanest smells you'll ever breathe, the attraction begins long before you've driven the length of the winding roads that lead to paradise. </div> <div> It's perfect for a one-day excursion. </div> <div> <I>Source:</I> </div> <div> <I>http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20010331/life/life2.html</I> </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="688" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 60 WIDTH="678"><div> <I><B>This site and its pages are Copyright 1998-2008. Noamie's Negril- Jamaican Tea Room. All Rights Reserved. </B></I><I><B>Web site Designed by: Noamie</B></I></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>