Found Out by Leak: The Questions Jamaica's Deportee Deal Still Owes the Public
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The Story That Keeps Changing: Jamaica's Widening Credibility Gap on the Deportee Deal
A diplomatic note, a formal human rights warning, and three different Cabinet explanations have now produced more documentation than public clarity. Here is the full record, reconstructed in order, with the questions it still leaves open. By Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher Part IV Three parts into this series, the
Who Watches the Watchdog? Inside Jamaica's Fight Against Corruption
Has the Integrity Commission made Jamaica less corrupt, and what would the country look like without it? By Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher There is a particular kind of Jamaican silence that settles over a story once it touches the Integrity Commission. It is not indifference. It is the silence
Transit to Nowhere: The Two Questions Jamaica's Deportee Deal Has Not
Answered Minister Chang says this is about transit, not settlement. But the only fully operational version of this exact program anywhere in the world shows that transit is the part most likely to fail, and nobody in Kingston has said what happens when it does. By Janiel McEwan, Economist and
The Price of Saying Yes: Jamaica's Quiet Bet on America's Deportation Problem
Kingston has signed a memorandum allowing the United States to route non-Jamaican deportees through Jamaican soil. The headline numbers are disputed. The deeper questions — about sovereignty, security, and a country that has spent three decades managing the stigma of deportation — are not. By Janiel McEwan, Economist and Researcher On