This makes me want to throw up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGYWI7Iy5Pc

Wow. Powerful stuff.

A good explanation of the stakes involved are narrated around the 6 minute mark.

Is this a JET-produced video?

This is pitiful. This is disgusting. Pass me an airline sickness bag.

It is our understanding that the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) was the entity putting together the financing for the port development at Falmouth which will serve the primary interests of the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line & other national investors. In promotional videos the complex gives the appearance of a alien off-shore mini-city docking (suckling) onto the Jamaica mother.

There is a true authentic, planned Georgian town of Falmouth in great need of repair & preservation, with the full historical knowledge & bitter experience that it was built on slavery- produced rum & sugar.

Now, at the new port a mock, homogenized, sanitized Georgian touristic manifestation is taking shape, and as Diana McCaulay narrates on the video, to whose benefit & to whose exclusion?
Where was the government in extracting the greatest win-win benefit for the townscape, its citizens & the environment deep into the future & to help lower some of the social tensions between the chosen (vendors etc) & the the rest who must scatter to eke out a living?

How much of the reportedly $150US per cruise passenger spent per port will ever seep into the real Falmouth economy?

It is reported that Royal Caribbean has committed to the prestige renovation of Hampden Wharf & Tharpe House, which should certainly gain them a nice bronze plaque.

Falmouth Heritage Renewal
www.falmouthjamaica.org/content.asp?catID=8545

"...Falmouth's unique possession is the ancillary fill of a Georgian town that has been destroyed elsewhere. Laid out in the late 1770s as a model town, Falmouth is remarkably intact and unparalleled in the Caribbean...In Falmouth one gets the sense of scale of an eighteenth century town, for it is not only the large buildings which have survived but also the many one-room and two-room cabins, and even smaller buildings such as outdoor kitchens....
Elsewhere in the world, these would receive recognition and there would be international pleas for their preservation. Had it been in the US, lavish monies would have been spent on the town's restoration (eg, Williamsburg) and in Europe, it would have become a "ville d'art", venerated for its perfection as a small Georgian town.
Williamsburg, with some one million (+) visitors a year, rates as one of the world's top heritage attractions: just ten percent of that number of visitors would transform Falmouth's prospects. Impressive results could be achieved with proper management and imaginative marketing."
Jamaica's Heritage: An Untapped Resource (1991)