[Buzz]

I say bulldoze these areas completely, plant a lot of coconut and banana trees and put up a bunch of nice, small, colourful houses. Lay off 80% of the police force, allow the rest to stop and have a beer with the citizens at the sidewalk rum shops and under no circumstances allow them to interfere with motorists going about their business and having fun.
There are thousands of us here in the islands who would enrich your culture by emigrating if y'all would just fix the place up a bit.