re: Montego Bay - anything worth seeing off of the resort?

Everyone's mileage varies, but I found the prevailing wisdom in this thread to be untrue when I visiited Jamaica.

The big resort cities/towns (Mo Bay, Negril, Ocho and just don't go to Kingston period) do feel unsafe and have a lot of tourist hassling occurring, because the people there have a parasitic relationship with tourists. When you get away from the big tourist draws, the Jamaican people are wonderful.

That being said for Mo Bay: Dunn's River Falls or Blue Hole are the most frequent daytrips, I believe. Any of those popular day trips are going to involve a lot of people tryiing to sell you crap and being very pushy about it, though because they're tourist areas.