{"id":662,"date":"2007-09-24T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T06:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=662"},"modified":"2007-09-24T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T06:45:04","slug":"forgotten-world-101-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (101): Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a> is one of the few places in the world that is really dangerous and yet has a thriving tourist industry. Last year, more than 1,300 people were murdered in an island of just 2.7 million. This is one of the world&#8217;s highest murder rates alongside South Africa and Colombia. Around a quarter of the killings were the result of police action. But, of course, the tourists do not see this because they largely remain inside special resort areas.<br \/>\nJamaica  is thought of as a paradise island but much of the population lives in poverty. Indeed some 30% of people live in impoverished slum-like garrisons where makeshift barricades mark the boundaries between different gangs. Politics and gangsterism are intertwined with gangs given local works contracts in return for securing votes.<br \/>\nAfter an 18-year reign by the People&#8217;s National Party concluding with the short tenure of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, the first woman to lead Jamaica&#8217;s government, in September 2007 Bruce Golding led the Jamaica Labour Party to victory in a closely fought election. He promises that he will combat corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica is one of the few places in the world that is really dangerous and yet has a thriving tourist industry. Last year, more than 1,300 people were murdered in an island of just 2.7 million. This is one of the world&#8217;s highest murder rates alongside South Africa and Colombia. Around a quarter of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}