As these informal settlements grew over the years, their names – and the names of places within them – have grown to ...

In the gritty slums of Jamaica, doctors say the skin lightening phenomenon has reached dangerous proportions. "I know of one woman who started to bleach her baby. She got very annoyed with me when ...

Jamaica, however, was different ... how the Jamaican ruling class now felt about the sounds emerging from the slums. The hairstyle wasn’t called “dread” locks for nothing.

ADVERTISEMENT Slum Village is best known ... But yeah, we listened to “Funkin’ For Jamaica,” the Bee Gees, random disco records we thought were dope. I hear a lot of classic funk like ...

Meghan also has ties with Jamaica, having previously written she had visited its slums with her mother when she was 10 to learn about the "harsh realities" of life. She had also married her first ...

There were so many slums back then. And I thought winter ... “These look like a certain part of the ghetto in Jamaica – the area I don’t go in.” Honestly, I couldn’t believe it.

In the gritty slums of Jamaica, doctors say the skin lightening phenomenon has reached dangerous proportions. “I know of one woman who started to bleach her baby. She got very annoyed with me when I ...

If names like Dunkirk, Concrete Jungle and Lizard Town conjure up images of poverty and violence, that is as it should be.These are names of Kingston ghettos that have given birth to the Jamaican ...

In the 1970s both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), the two main political parties, helped to organise and arm residents in urban slums, producing garrison ...

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Residents of four communities ... The project, which is a component of UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP), has three elements.

In Brazil, they’re called favelas; in Colombia, comunas; in Jamaica, garrisons; in Mexico, barrios or ciudades perdidas (lost cities). People also call them slums, shantytowns, and makeshift sprawls.

Jamaica Road, Sayon Town, Saye Town, Neezoe and the commercial hubs of Red Light in Paynesville and Waterside on Water Street. One may not be wrong to say Monrovia is a slum-enveloped capitol as ...