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The right to relax - Children need parks for play

ROTTING CAR shells, fallen tree trunks and weeds running wild fill the odd, empty spaces in Portmore where parks and recreational areas should be. In this area, the single greatest conurbation and residential zone in the island, rusty...

What green areas?

BY TOWN Planning specifications, Portmore should have 100 acres of recreational space for every 10,000 units constructed. In an area populated by approximately 250,000 Jamaicans, there is not one developed park. "Before any development is passed by...

Where do the children play?
GEORGE LEE, chairman of the Portmore Municipality Development Committee, notes that there are open spaces in Portmore, but many of these remain, "just parched areas". The developers have not done this. The authorities need to be firmer with them. They...

More than a mouthful
ME dear mam, fram me was a lilly pickney me always hear de song 'Carry go bring come my dear, bring misery. Yu going from home to home, creating disturbancy.' An missis, sake a how a only Black people like mi an me madda. An de shoemaker up a shap. An...


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