Together Against Violence - Jamaica

December 2001
Bennetlands is a ghetto community in the heart of Kingston, Jamaica's capital city - home to 5,000 inhabitants - half of them under 25 and over 2,000 of them unemployed. Once, despite the poverty, Bennetlands was a peaceful place, with daily life revolving around the four main pillars of the community - its primary school, two churches and the S-Corner Clinic which provided health care, support and education for school drop-outs. But in the 1980s war broke out in the region - with rival 'corner' gangs fighting a vicious turf battle over Bennetlands' one high street, terrorising the neighbourhood and preventing children from going to school, and for most of the residents Bennetlands became a prison without bars. This week's City Life tells how the local leaders joined forces to challenge the local gangs to heal their difference and work together to restore a sense of community in one poor Jamaican neighbourhood.

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[carterwatrous]

i gotta say.

jamaican people are some of the strongest ( mentally) people I've ever had the pleasure of having had them share their culture with me.

These people overcome some immense pain. So much respect for them.

[413nishawn]

he live the same place where i live......jus keep yall heads up n yall can make yall dream come true like mind..

[elvis29971]

yuh see mi nuh understand people we jamaicans don't discriminate against others but every weh wi go yuh have even other black man a dis wi a suh low dem class wi ??? like zamunda seh EVEN THOUGH DEM NUH LIKE WI WI STILL A PRAY FI DEM BEG JAH CLEAR DI WAY FI DEM

[AmericanPatriot2008]

@irishsean2

Shut up, you silly old Mick. A nigger must have fucked your daughter. Go collect your pension grand dad.

[irishsean2]

@joshy1ification niggers are the lowest form of animals on the planet but niggers from Jamica are the niggers of the niggersd , all Jamician women are whores black devils you mother is a cock sucking whore aid infected cunt!!!

[fred19992010]

@joshy1ification

I am not judging by this video. I am judging by the violent and savage nature of Jamaican people.

Even if, as you say, I'd been born there through no fault of my own, doesn't mean that I would get a gun and kill a bunch of people.

Cocaine passing through Jamaica is no excuse for the level of killing. Why don't you just accept that Jamaicans like to kill people, and stop making pathetic excuses?

And it's not the fault of people? So whose fault is it then - animals?

[joshy1ification]

@fred19992010 you cant judge a country from one video video what are you 8 years old lol ....if you were born there through no fault of your own you might of had to take up arms or you could choose to be a rasta ot man of peace which alot of these as you call savage people often choose to do , alot of cocaine travels through jamacia becoz of geography this causes violence also its not the fault of people now go away spoilt bratt

[fred19992010]

@joshy1ification

If what you are saying was correct, then we would see the same level of violence in the other Caribbean nations. But we don't. Therefore your theory is bullshit.

I accept that the CIA stirs up things in Jamaica. But does that mean the Jamaican idiots have to kill each other because the CIA tells them to? What scum.

If the CIA put a gun in my hand and tell me to go kill my own people, I would use it to kill the man who gave it to me.

Jamaicans are ignorant savages.

[joshy1ification]

the horrible evil comments on this video shock me your talking about a country that has been independant for only a short while so there will allways be blood shed plus the CIA funded most of the violence to stop a communist jamaica

[joshy1ification]

@irishsean2 u take it up the arse

[fred19992010]

@joshy1ification

Well, if Jamaicans weren't such prehistoric savages, I wouldn't say it.