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A Jamaican woman uses small stones to mark numbers called during a game of ghetto bingo December 15, 2008 in the Rema garrison of Kingston, Jamaica. With an unemployment rate of more than 10% and a negative economic growth rate, opportunities are few for poor Jamaicans, known as "sufferers", who try to make ends meet the best way they can.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4153x2769 / 11.7MB; 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 gambling racket bingo income Kingston Rema Trench Town slum housing public horizontal illicit 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 woman uses small stones to mark numbers called during a game of ghetto bingo December 15, 2008 in the Rema garrison of Kingston, Jamaica. With an unemployment rate of more than 10% and a negative economic growth rate, opportunities are few for poor Jamaicans, known as "sufferers", who try to make ends meet the best way they can.