Socio/Cultural and Business Entrepreneurship As the Potential Key to Our Exit From Crime and Violence
Caribbean Quarterly › Vol. 51 Nbr. 3/4, September 2005
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Socio/Cultural and Business Entrepreneurship As the Potential Key to Our Exit From Crime and Violence
Contextualizing of the Problem
The problem of viewing education as a pragmatic alternative to a life of crime is compounded by the very practical consideration that crime has become very big business. Narco Trafficking, which presently holds centre stage provides us with staggering evidence that this is indeed a multimillion (US) dollar industry, supported in part by National Security Statistics which suggest that one hundred tons of cocaine (the main event in the narco trafficking business), with a street value of approximately one hundred and fifty million dollars passes through Jamaica yearly.1 The magnitude of the narco enterprise problem for inner city juveniles (suffering from the double jeopardy of attractive recruitment from drug cartel dons and the constant bombardment of their schools by bullets from rival gangs fighting over turf), is seen in the unprecedented corruption at all levels as Parliamentary Personnel on both sides of the House, Judges, personnel at almost all levels within Jamaica Constabulary have been un...See the full content of this document
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