Thank you for posting this. It was certainly eye-opening. My opinion of this in USA has been to ignore since where we are there are a lot who make a "business" of panhandling, standing outside a Mall then getting into their Lexus at the end of a day and driving away. So I've become blind.

I WILL offer to buy a meal for someone. Sometimes a real needy person will accept but most times I get "Just give me money" and I think they will either use it to buy alcohol or, as I said, drive away at the end of the day.

Next visit to SXM I will be more generous.

Rosemary