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Jamaica: The “neighbourhood crackhead”

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Humor, Law

“The murder rate has hit its all time high in Jamaica, but yet sometimes I feel very removed from it. Nobody in my family seems to be perturbed,” begins Back on the Rock, as she tells the story of the “neighbourhood crackhead” who keeps stealing things from her house in Kingston [1].