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A Jamaican vendor sleeps at her stall June 16, 2008 in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. A recent United Nations report suggested that high crime is inhibiting economic growth for the island nation, saying that if Jamaica could lower crime by even one third, it would benefit from a doubling of it's current economic growth rate. Jamaica currently endures more than 10% unemployment rate, and a negative economic growth rate.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4276x2851 / 3.6MB; Jamaica Jamaican gangs violence murder homicide rates capita crime justice society poverty community garrison gangsters guns weapons youth culture Caribbean tropics West Indies ghetto inner-city inner city epidemic economy downturn unemployment industry shops shopkeeper vendor horizontal nap sleeping clothing fashion Kingston market Southside GDP percentage Jamaica Kingston garrison garrisons gangs ghetto poverty violence gangsters crime culture violence tragic crisis island Jamaican armed gang life killing homicide rate political violence PNP JLP neighborhood members guns weapons criminal projects
Contained in galleries: Jamaican Violence Project

A Jamaican vendor sleeps at her stall June 16, 2008 in downtown Kingston, Jamaica. A recent United Nations report suggested that high crime is inhibiting economic growth for the island nation, saying that if Jamaica could lower crime by even one third, it would benefit from a doubling of it's current economic growth rate. Jamaica currently endures more than 10% unemployment rate, and a negative economic growth rate.