Traffic police have pearl-handled revolvers. The security guard, in the picture, protects the local grocery with a sawed-off shotgun. The island is lush. The huge leaves of banana trees wave before tiny rural homes. Coconuts, limes, and mangos hang over the walled yards of urban neighborhoods.
Fruit grows on trees in the city parks.
In the countryside, narrow-gage railways run through rich green fields of sugarcane. Crowded shacks house cane cutters, many immigrants from Haiti. The trains carry the cane for processing into sugar and rum. It's cheaper than beer. The local beers are very good.