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Zilla 23rd December 2010 |
U have to take the good ova bad. It's a lot of evil going on in the world and because of the corruption from American government, which influence our Jamaican government things are way out of control. We have to go back to the basic of the problem and I don't believe in pointing finger because none of us is good. We all have sin. Pray for a better Jamaica, and google: Zilla fear no man!!!! |
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zeebo 12th December 2010 |
The matter of crime in Jamaica is serious concern for all Jamaican's citizenry including those in the diaspora who usually made the trip back home for holidays. the level of crime is preventing many from returning home,it has robbed the country of huge investment, as investor are forced to pay out huge sum for security in order to protect their investment. The police has not been able to rid the island of crime because it is too corrupt, it has limited resource, the police are poorly remunerated and the government has allow too much haphazard community development to take place making it almost impossible to police some section of the island.In addition there is perpetual link between criminal and those holding political offices, all of these make it almost impossible to rid the country of the monster call crime and as one writer suggest perhaps the only way to deal with the problem is to eradicate the entire nation and start a new. |
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dee 3rd October 2010 |
Many parts of America is just as violent. There are many success story that pertain to Jamaica that no one takes the time out to read about. |
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Mohan+Roache 29th September 2010 |
i wish some of you hypocrites would just shut up and get a life...sure jamaica is a small nation with a crime problem, almost every prominent country in the world does...all you people do is sensitize and exaggerate...i've lived in jamaica for 21 years and neither me nor my family has ever been victims of crime and we live in the inner city or as some people love to call it 'the crime breeding ghetto'... ilove jamaica and i know we have a problem, i don't need people tearing us down unjustly and unfairly...CRIME AND VIOLENCE IS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!LEAVE JAMAICA ALONE AND STAY IN YOU PERFECT AND PEACEFUL UTOPIAS!!!!!!! |
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James 2nd September 2010 |
I lived and worked in Jamaica for several years in the 1970s. My wife is Jamaican and now that I am retired (well off) I would love to retire to Jamaica. Truth is, it is full of wannabee Jamaican gangstaas. It is the people that have ruined this beautiful country. They have ruined every city they have emigrated to (Toronto, Vancouver, London etc.). No excuses, the young people are truly an awful excuse for human beings. Where they live you find children with single families, welfare, drugs, crime. Truly and awful people. |
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anmol 14th June 2010 |
Jamaica just like the rest of the Carribean seems like a beautifal and lovely place to live. Yes the crime is high in Jamaica and it is a worry however the people generally are nice and the whole feel of the island seems spectacular |
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joanda 14th May 2010 |
No one in authority wants to hold the bull by the horn so crime must get out of hand. People needs to be safe and it is only few people have the opportunity to travel abroad inorder to escape the terror.Recommendation apply strong jaconian measures accordingly, authority mix up and mix up so if them put things in place them a go hurt them own read between the lines,corruption, corruption, corruption capital of the world Jamaica. |
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David Fisher 11th May 2010 |
Some of the comments here demonstrate the lack of understanding of basic principles of statistics that completely deal with the fact that Jamaica is a small country with only about 2.5m people. e.g.Fact: It has about the 7th highest murder rate per 100,000 population in the world. In the last 6 years it has 6000 unsolved murder cases (Source Sunday Gleaner Jamaica). It is true Jamaicans prefer to kill each other rather than tourists but why sit on a beach 8kms away from where a six year old girl is killed and her 9 year old sister in hospital gunned down as daughters of a local peacemaker who was also murdered? (Source Western Mirror Jamaica) |
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markus 10th May 2010 |
JAMAICA IS HELL I WILL NEVER GO TO THAT PLACE THERE OMG THATS HELL THEY ARE ALL CRAZY MURDERS |
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CaroC 16th April 2010 |
Corruption in Jamaica is too far gone, it's almost like you would have to get rid of a whole generation to get the country on the right path. I love my country, but as long as it is going the way it is, I will never ever think of living there again. My brother was murdered in cold blood in broad day light, in front of several witnesses, and absolutely nothing was done to bring this person to justice. Get rid of the corrupted politians who is only in it to make money while poor people suffer. This is a crying shame. |
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Simon(august town) 9th March 2010 |
I only make a comment because I love the views of Raldo.You are right bro.It's just the perception of ones nationality.In such a way you become statistic automatically. |
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TOPSHOTTA 5th February 2010 |
I feel at the age of 18 every Jamaican should be allowed to leave Jamaica and live a broad for a short while they will see sow the rest of the world live and they would stop the senceless killings that take place.I had friends come up from yard and they say they did not know that the rest of world live so different from them due to no exposure now they live repectfully I always say enviorment is stronger than will people always adjust & conform to their surroundings. |
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Toni -NCU 27th January 2010 |
Hey, people what we need to do is pray for our beautiful country Jamaica and people that lives in it. We need God in our lives to change our circumstances or we'll surely be lost. Are we are one people, one nation, and in God we trust and not man. A thought- "If you don't have anything positive to say, please, please don't say anything." |
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Ray Ray 30th November 2009 |
Please Jamaicans and Jamaica a break. Did you all saw what happened on you tube, police beat up one white man and mash up him face in him car window. where did that happened? In America, not Jamaica. America |
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Toshyboo 17th November 2009 |
Jamaica is a beautiful country who happens to have problems just like everywhere else in the world. The reason why it appears to be so abhorred in your sight is because the country is tiny. America has its issues with murder, iraq, afganistan, to name a few. The only way anyone of you can condemn Jamaica is if in your country you have never had any for of criminal activities. If so then you can cast the first stone if not then you hold your peace. I am a true Jamaican who has travelled extensively and since people put me on criminal watch because of my country, it is simple all i do is dont give them what they are expecting. The best revenge you can have on someone is to prove them wrong. If all Jamaican were like me i would go to these countries and show them that we can be some where showing positive vibes without been labelled as criminals. Thank God that something positive exist about my country else if it were up to you all we would have shrink under condemnation. For the record JAMAICA is not a hell hole Jamaica no problem, respect to all Jamaican crew, a jus one love we a deal wid. |
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The Devil 15th November 2009 |
Jamaicans are worst than the Taliban. Every Jamaican who enters the U.S. is put on a criminal watch list for suspected criminal activity, aside from the terrorist ban list. There is no hope for the nation because of the Rastafarian religion. A cult religion based on a false prophet. |
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Raldo 23rd October 2009 |
As an American, Jamaica is a gorgeous but violent small country, but is it the worst? is it the more corrupt than Haiti or Columbia, Rio in Brazil or even South Africa, No. The fact of the matter is Kingston and Spanish town(old capital city) is where shooting takes place, in the very poor or ghetto areas, however if some one is a victim of a crime in any part of the country then your just a random statistic, just like any onther country |
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Patrick Bluth 16th August 2009 |
I can never under Jamaica. They are a group of people that are very divided and feed on hostility.My sister was murdered in my presence while visiting in Jamaica and no justice has been served. I am scared of anything called Jamaica, especially the men. I would never date a Jamaica man and many foreigners shares the same feelings. Jamaica is like the wild! wild west. No integrity. It is capital world in corruption and crime. Stay away from that hell hole. |
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kell 13th May 2009 |
Some of these stats are wrong, particularly because gathering information on some issues are so difficult, therefore a lot of assumptions have been made, especially with regards to human trafficking especially w.r.t trafficking fo forced labour etc |
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Donna Marin (USA) 17th April 2007 |
Mr. Everton Green is probably one of those so call Jamaicans who are trying so hard to assimilate into another society/culture that his ignorance and arrogance is overlooked or unknown to him. In other words he is an idiot. I am a Jamaican female who loves Jamaica. There are problems there like everywhere else in the world, but he vast majority of Jamaicans are hard workers that poses excellent moral and ethical values. If you visit NY city or LA you would not wonder or should not wonder off into the gang or drug areas, the same applies to Jamaica be smart and safe. |
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Bob Marley 11th November 2005 |
I love weed! |
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Suchita Vemuri Staff Editor 24th March 2005 |
Hi Kay, crime has adversely affected tourism in parts of Jamaica, according to the country's Tourism Minister Aloun N'Dombet Assamba, and tourists are warned what precautions to take while planning any travel to Jamaica. |
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Candice 3rd December 2004 |
I would love to get statistics about crime in jamaica particularly those in garrison communities |
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