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...visit to Barbados in April 1982, Reagan complained to Prime Minister Tom Adams and Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga about the "spread of the virus" of Communism from Grenada. The two Caribbean leaders shared the President's concern. Recalled a presidential aide who was there: "They really beat up on us about Grenada...
...former Webster School, which serves a neighborhood with Haitians, Greeks, and Jamaican residents, merged with the experimental Cambridge Alternative Public School (CAPS...
Another man whom I met in prison had been sentenced to six years for having transcribed passages out of the Bible for his friends and colleagues. It is very difficult to obtain a Bible. Once a group of Jamaican churchmen shipped some Bibles to Cuba. These were loaded onto a truck in the port of Havana and taken to a paper factory where they were recycled and used for government publications. Once José Maria Rivero Diaz, a Protestant minister, was surprised by a guard while reading a small Bible which had been smuggled into prison. He was savagely beaten...
...cannot be accused of profligacy toward Latin America. To its credit, the Reagan Administration came forward last year with the Caribbean Basin Initiative, a joint effort by the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Venezuela to promote trade, investment and aid to the region. It was conceived largely in response to Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga's call for a "mini-Marshall Plan...
Seaga inherited a country pragued by debt. unemployment and violence from his socialist predecessor Michael Manlcy and has set out to denationalize Jamaican industry in an attempt to spur the economy...