" but then a cab driver joined him and said SXM will never be the same. We reminisced about change, things gone things added and he said it was the tourists that had spoiled his beautiful island."
Nothing like a cabby biting the hand that feeds him. Without tourists he won't have much to do.
My thought too Scuba. I think it might have more to do with himself than tourists. Perhaps he's a Gypsy driver and regulation has hurt him.
