Is Jamaica Safe?

March, 1981

Titling this column "Is Jamaica Safe?" is not just a cynical way to catch your eye. It is an accurate report of the one question I'm asked--almost to the exclusion of all others--about what was once the Caribbean's most beguiling destination.It's not a frivolous question. Officials currently estimate that political unrest in Jamaica resulted in more than 600 people's being killed during the first ten months of 1980, in what can only be described as intraparty fratricide. The effect of...

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