From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Sex shop invasion - Communities appeal to authorities; practice devalues properties
published: Sunday June 29, 2008
RESIDENTS IN a number of upper St Andrew neighbourhoods have been seeking the urgent assistance of the police to shut down several sex shops that have invaded their communities, "carrying property values down".
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Assistant Superintendent of Police Wayne Cameron of the St Andrew Central police confirms that massage parlours or sex shops, are on the rise in the Corporate Area and that the police is currently investigating a number of them."
"(T)hese "houses of pleasure" are ensconced in high-end residential areas and it's not easy to single them out.
According to the police, operators of massage parlours have been shelling out hefty sums to rent or lease these homes."
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"A source from the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) says massage parlours are - on the face it - legitimate business ventures for which one can be granted a licence to operate in a residential area.
However, the CCN source points out that if transactions, including sex in exchange for money is proven, operators could be charged with aiding and abetting prostitution which is illegal in Jamaica.
Those who operate without licences are fined according to the discretion of judges in local courts, with higher fines for habitual offenders."
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Tuesday, April 7, 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."
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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."
Friday, March 20, 2009
JO - Prostitution for profit?
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Observer
Prostitution for profit?
HEART TO HEART
Betty Ann Blaine
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Dear Reader,
There is one thing that is becoming abundantly clear about the Golding administration and its surrogate-managers - they are obviously prepared to fund the budget by any means necessary, even in the face of the glaring contradictions between fiscal propriety and moral bankruptcy. As if enough damage is not being done to the social fabric of the country with the legalisation of casino gambling, there are some people who are now talking about the legalisation of prostitution.
Read the whole letter here.
Snippet(s):
"Just in case there is any of us who may be unclear about the factual implications of the legalisation of prostitution - it is that the buying and selling of sex would move from a personal and individual level to becoming a state-sponsored enterprise."
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"One of the gravest risks faced by prostitutes and other sex workers is human trafficking. The phenomenon , described as "modern-day slavery", now stands at a figure of close to 27 million trafficked victims, and is largely associated with young women, even children, many of them recruited or coerced as a result of their exposure to prostitution and the sex trade."
Jamaica Observer
Prostitution for profit?
HEART TO HEART
Betty Ann Blaine
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Dear Reader,
There is one thing that is becoming abundantly clear about the Golding administration and its surrogate-managers - they are obviously prepared to fund the budget by any means necessary, even in the face of the glaring contradictions between fiscal propriety and moral bankruptcy. As if enough damage is not being done to the social fabric of the country with the legalisation of casino gambling, there are some people who are now talking about the legalisation of prostitution.
Read the whole letter here.
Snippet(s):
"Just in case there is any of us who may be unclear about the factual implications of the legalisation of prostitution - it is that the buying and selling of sex would move from a personal and individual level to becoming a state-sponsored enterprise."
&
"One of the gravest risks faced by prostitutes and other sex workers is human trafficking. The phenomenon , described as "modern-day slavery", now stands at a figure of close to 27 million trafficked victims, and is largely associated with young women, even children, many of them recruited or coerced as a result of their exposure to prostitution and the sex trade."
Sunday, February 22, 2009
JO - Sex workers happy with tax proposal
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Observer
Sex workers happy with tax proposal
Saturday, June 21, 2008
THE Sex Workers Association (SWA) on Thursday welcomed a proposal to decriminalise and tax commercial sex work.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Dr Kevin Harvey, senior medical officer in the Ministry of Health with responsibility for the National HIV/STI programme, said the government could earn up to $3 billion a year if it taxed prostitution."
Jamaica Observer
Sex workers happy with tax proposal
Saturday, June 21, 2008
THE Sex Workers Association (SWA) on Thursday welcomed a proposal to decriminalise and tax commercial sex work.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Dr Kevin Harvey, senior medical officer in the Ministry of Health with responsibility for the National HIV/STI programme, said the government could earn up to $3 billion a year if it taxed prostitution."
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
WP - Tijuana Strip Turns Ghostly In Wake of Drug Violence. As Tourists Increasingly Shun Mexico's Border Cities, Many Businesses Can't Survive.
From my archive of press clippings:
Washington Post
Tijuana Strip Turns Ghostly In Wake of Drug Violence. As Tourists Increasingly Shun Mexico's Border Cities, Many Businesses Can't Survive.
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, June 16, 2008; Page A15
TIJUANA, Mexico -- A shop on Avenida Revolucion was once considered a surefire gold mine.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Daylight gun battles, beheadings and kidnappings have scared away tourists, forced layoffs and turned some areas of once-vibrant Mexican border cities into virtual ghost towns.
The drug wars, which have killed more than 6,000 people in the past 2 1/2 years, have accelerated a decline that merchants also blame on the U.S. economic slowdown and delays at the border because of increased enforcement.
In Tijuana, where at least 200 people have been killed in drug violence this year, merchants say tourism is down as much as 90 percent compared with 2005, when an estimated 4 million people visited."
"The downturn has had less obvious consequences, even endangering public health.
In Tijuana's now mostly empty strip clubs, prostitutes have grown so desperate that they are increasingly willing to engage in risky behavior such as having unprotected sex."
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"Mexican tourism officials are alarmed and have accused Mexican and U.S. media of exaggerating the violence."
Washington Post
Tijuana Strip Turns Ghostly In Wake of Drug Violence. As Tourists Increasingly Shun Mexico's Border Cities, Many Businesses Can't Survive.
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, June 16, 2008; Page A15
TIJUANA, Mexico -- A shop on Avenida Revolucion was once considered a surefire gold mine.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Daylight gun battles, beheadings and kidnappings have scared away tourists, forced layoffs and turned some areas of once-vibrant Mexican border cities into virtual ghost towns.
The drug wars, which have killed more than 6,000 people in the past 2 1/2 years, have accelerated a decline that merchants also blame on the U.S. economic slowdown and delays at the border because of increased enforcement.
In Tijuana, where at least 200 people have been killed in drug violence this year, merchants say tourism is down as much as 90 percent compared with 2005, when an estimated 4 million people visited."
"The downturn has had less obvious consequences, even endangering public health.
In Tijuana's now mostly empty strip clubs, prostitutes have grown so desperate that they are increasingly willing to engage in risky behavior such as having unprotected sex."
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"Mexican tourism officials are alarmed and have accused Mexican and U.S. media of exaggerating the violence."
Sunday, January 18, 2009
JO - Strippers vs hookers. Who is raking in the big bucks?
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Observer
Strippers vs hookers
Who is raking in the big bucks?
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter
reidt@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, July 06, 2008
IT'S a warm and breezy Friday night at a popular adult entertainment establishment called Pablo's, on Eastwood Park Road in St Andrew. There is a sea of expensive-looking cars in the parking lot, and several male patrons are outside in the yard swilling liquor. A group of young women are gossiping and checking out the men - and there's a burly security guard in a black shirt, cap and jeans standing by the small gate collecting the $300 entrance fee from the patrons as they roll in.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"By all accounts, the operators of these establishments - found in major towns across Jamaica - the dancing girls and the men flocking to the clubs to pay to see them, are collectively driving the sex industry in Jamaica, which is reportedly raking in millions of dollars."
Jamaica Observer
Strippers vs hookers
Who is raking in the big bucks?
BY TYRONE S REID Sunday Observer staff reporter
reidt@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, July 06, 2008
IT'S a warm and breezy Friday night at a popular adult entertainment establishment called Pablo's, on Eastwood Park Road in St Andrew. There is a sea of expensive-looking cars in the parking lot, and several male patrons are outside in the yard swilling liquor. A group of young women are gossiping and checking out the men - and there's a burly security guard in a black shirt, cap and jeans standing by the small gate collecting the $300 entrance fee from the patrons as they roll in.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"By all accounts, the operators of these establishments - found in major towns across Jamaica - the dancing girls and the men flocking to the clubs to pay to see them, are collectively driving the sex industry in Jamaica, which is reportedly raking in millions of dollars."
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