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Nov 2024
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Edmund Bartlett: Does Jamaica have a sec...

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Jamaica's minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett. While the island nation projects itself to the world as a Caribbean success story, its reputation is being tarnished by violent crime, drugs and gang warfare. What will it take to make Jamaica more secure?

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