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Investment Deal with China Leaves Jamaicans With More Questions Than Answers

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Citizen Media, Development, Economics & Business, Environment, Governance, International Relations, Politics

I AM SO FLABBERGASTED: WHO gives a FOREIGN government the RIGHT to CHOOSE WHICH LAND IT WANTS?

As part of an investment exchange, the Jamaican government has agreed to give 1,200 acres of land to the Chinese government – wherever it wants. Cucumber Juice [1] has critical questions that she feels the government must answer: What is the value of the land? How will it be used? What if it's already occupied? She concludes that “Jamaica is for sale, is being sold, and is not at all as independent as its citizens and residents like to think.”