A Stellar Record of Failure: The IMF and Jamaica
As part of her election campaign, Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller announced her intention of breaking ties with the ...
Hypocritical Justice: Police Killings Rattle Jamaica
The killing of 21 people—including a 13-year-old girl and an elderly man—by the Jamaican police in the past six days ...
Will He Sing or Stay Silent: Sentencing of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke Delayed
The prosecutors in the trial of Christopher "Dudus" Coke have asked for a 23-year sentence, to stop the Jamaican criminal ...
Jamaica: Leveraged Sellout
AT HIS SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN NOVEM- ber, U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica William Holden made his intentions clear. His stated mission ...
Jamaica-Roots of Electoral Violence
Driving through Western King- ston, a wrong turn landed us on a narrow street made nearly impassable by mountainous heaps ...
IV. Race of the Orchards
Growers who defend the importation of Jamaican apple pickers say the job requires special attributes--traits they would like to pass ...
Rethinking the Drug War
In many parts of the Americas, the U.S.-led consensus about the “war on drugs” is beginning to fray. This is ...
The Jamaican Moment: New Paths for the Caribbean?
It is evident that Latin American politics has made a decisive shift to the left. The startling presidential triumph of ...
