Rethinking Sargassum Seaweed: Could It Be the New Normal in Jamaica?

Rethinking Sargassum Seaweed: Could It Be the New Normal in Jamaica?

Blooms of smelly and unsightly sargassum seaweed have impacted the tourism industry across the Caribbean. Now, solutions must balance environmental ...
A Stellar Record of Failure: The IMF and Jamaica

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

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

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 ...
The CIA, the Cold War, and Cocaine: The Connections of Christopher "Dudus" Coke

The CIA, the Cold War, and Cocaine: The Connections of Christopher “Dudus” Coke

On June 22, Jamaican police arrested Christopher "Dudus" Coke in the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of Kingston and immediately delivered him ...
Migration's Motor: Postwar Modernization

Migration’s Motor: Postwar Modernization

Jamaicans have been leaving home for a long time-for so long, in fact, and in such great numbers that today ...
Maroons of the Caribbean

Maroons of the Caribbean

RESISTANCE WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF Caribbean slave society. Slaves resisted in myriad ways-from the subtle and passive, acted out ...
Jamaica: Caving in to the IMF

Jamaica: Caving in to the IMF

The following article updates the May-June 1978 NACLA Report on Jamaica, "Caribbean Conflict: Jamaica and the U.S." In the most ...
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