Comments on: Caribbean: A More Violent World?

By: kendrick

kendrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:37:18 +0000

I am not satisefied that our political systems are protecting our people. They seem to keep the small island government leaders rich, powerful and able to be the very leaders of crime and crookedness.

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By: SolShine7

SolShine7 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:40:52 +0000

I’m from the USA and I didn’t know things had gotten so rough in the Caribbean. I still hope to visit there one day. I heard the beaches are amazing!

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“Naked” Cultures? « BeckBlogic Weblog — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:10:06 +0000

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By: guyana gyal

guyana gyal — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:38:16 +0000

I cannot think of a single decade when Guyana did NOT suffer from some kind of violence [well, apart from those colonial times that the older folks still talk about...it seems so idyllic, even unreal, back then.]

In the 60s, there was the dreadful civil unrest; in the 70’s and 80’s, there were the kick-down-the-door bandits. In the 90’s, more violence that folks have linked to politics. And still linking, today, in the 2000’s.

In Jamaica, people have confided that some politicians used to give them bicycles and GUNS for votes and whatever favours politicians wanted. Politicians’ gunmen, working LEGITIMATELY in a govt. office, carried their guns under their shirts. I thought those men were drivers for the vehicles but I was told they were “politicians’ gunmen”.

It’s easy to say that violence is caused by economics. Yes, in part, but I believe it’s more complex than that.

I’m still trying to understand it all.

By: Kaywil

Kaywil — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:43:21 +0000

I think it has to do with economics…police can’t do anything when they’re strapped themselves. Thank you, IMF and World Bank!

By: Esteban Agosto Reid

Esteban Agosto Reid — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:38:26 +0000

We are definitely living in a more violent Caribbean.Anxieties and excessive fear abound in the Caribbean.A tsunami of crime has totally engulfed these island states.Specifically,Jamaica,where murders have already exceeded fifteen hundred for the year and counting.And it is becoming increasingly apparent that law enforcement officials are impotent and incapable of stemming or curbing this wave of violence that is crippling these societies.Ruthless thugs,hooligans,gangsters,et al have transformed these once idyllic islands into brutal killing fields.