From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
'Too good to be true' - Job offers lead to exploitation
published: Sunday June 29, 2008
AP
An unidentified Afghan prostitute chats with one of her friends on a phone in her Madame's house in Kabul, Afghanistan. Here in Jamaica, prostitution is linked to human trafficking and the country has been removed from its less favourable Tier 3 rating to a Tier 2 assessment in human trafficking by monitoring agencies.
Avia Collinder, Sunday Gleaner Writer
WHILE THE recent United States State Department's human trafficking report indicates no one in Jamaica has yet been convicted for the offence, the police are actively pursuing eight cases in local courts.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
JG - Teen prostitutes - Negril - trafficking hotbed, girls in poverty abducted
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Teen prostitutes - Negril - trafficking hotbed, girls in poverty abducted
published: Sunday June 29, 2008
Avia Collinder, Sunday Gleaner Writer
A REPORT on human trafficking in Jamaica, commissioned by the National Task Force against Trafficking in Persons within the Ministry of National Security, reveals a connection between sexual exploitation, forced labour and tourism.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Completed late last year, the report: 'Human trafficking for sexual exploitation and forced labour in Jamaica', was prepared by Sybil Ricketts and Dr Leith Dunn of Kingston-based Searchcon Resource Consultants.
The study was conducted in Kingston and St Andrew, Negril in Westmoreland and Montego Bay, St James.
The findings indicate that the tourist industry, more specifically, the informal sex industry, is a significant contributor to the exploitation of individuals."
"The findings showed that several children in the western resort town of Negril were victims of human trafficking, which was directly related to increased advertising for escort services.
Eleven victims from the area were singled out in the study."
"A non-random sampling method was used to select persons for interviews, and a snowballing method employed to reach a sample size of 29 victims.
Snowballing involves identifying key informants who then referred researchers to other respondents."
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"(T)the report confirms that the victims of trafficking are predominantly female (79.3 per cent) with the modal age group being 18 to 24 years, primarily high school leavers without children or partners.
Forty-three per cent of the victims were involved in exotic dancing or commercial sex work."
Jamaica Gleaner
Teen prostitutes - Negril - trafficking hotbed, girls in poverty abducted
published: Sunday June 29, 2008
Avia Collinder, Sunday Gleaner Writer
A REPORT on human trafficking in Jamaica, commissioned by the National Task Force against Trafficking in Persons within the Ministry of National Security, reveals a connection between sexual exploitation, forced labour and tourism.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Completed late last year, the report: 'Human trafficking for sexual exploitation and forced labour in Jamaica', was prepared by Sybil Ricketts and Dr Leith Dunn of Kingston-based Searchcon Resource Consultants.
The study was conducted in Kingston and St Andrew, Negril in Westmoreland and Montego Bay, St James.
The findings indicate that the tourist industry, more specifically, the informal sex industry, is a significant contributor to the exploitation of individuals."
"The findings showed that several children in the western resort town of Negril were victims of human trafficking, which was directly related to increased advertising for escort services.
Eleven victims from the area were singled out in the study."
"A non-random sampling method was used to select persons for interviews, and a snowballing method employed to reach a sample size of 29 victims.
Snowballing involves identifying key informants who then referred researchers to other respondents."
&
"(T)the report confirms that the victims of trafficking are predominantly female (79.3 per cent) with the modal age group being 18 to 24 years, primarily high school leavers without children or partners.
Forty-three per cent of the victims were involved in exotic dancing or commercial sex work."
Friday, January 30, 2009
JG - Thievery: a national disease
Jamaica Gleaner
Thievery: a national disease
Published: Sunday January 11, 2009
Avia Collinder, Gleaner Writer
DARING ACTS of theft featured prominently in the news in 2008 with the most amazing report being the theft of an entire beach. Most chilling, however, was the reported plundering of belongings of market vendors who died in the horrific Portland truck tragedy in December. Reports stated that the shop of one passenger was emptied after the accident.
Read the whole article here.
Thievery: a national disease
Published: Sunday January 11, 2009
Avia Collinder, Gleaner Writer
DARING ACTS of theft featured prominently in the news in 2008 with the most amazing report being the theft of an entire beach. Most chilling, however, was the reported plundering of belongings of market vendors who died in the horrific Portland truck tragedy in December. Reports stated that the shop of one passenger was emptied after the accident.
Read the whole article here.
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