Need-to-know tips about travel in Jamaica — foxnews.com

A hideaway hotel fit for couples and families. (Jake's Treasure Beach) When I told my parents I was going to Jamaica—with two female friends, on a road tip—the parental anxiety was palpable from across the Atlantic. (Our route: a loop around the lush eastern side of the island, starting and ending in Kingston and stopping in Treasure Beach, Oracabessa, and Port Antonio along the way.) And they did have some valid concerns: Though much of the violence there is confined to easily avoided areas of major cities, Jamaica has a disproportionately high crime rate for an island its size. 

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