9781724513816

9798736521067

1724513818

Essay on the challenges facing Jamaica. "Although still stunningly beautiful, and has registered some notable successes [since independence in 1962], Jamaica's dominant portrait is of a traumatized nation hobbled by many problems, the most troubling of which is a full-spectrum crime problem resulting in one of the highest murder rates globally".

"A chronicle of contemporary Jamaican challenges and prescriptions for curing them"--Title page of volume 2.

Social classes > Jamaica.

Crime > Jamaica.

Social problems > Jamaica.

Jamaica > Social conditions.

Jamaica > Economic conditions.

Jamaica > Education.

Jamaica > Colonial influence.