Stop the developers, give us community and green space: A view from Jamaica - Stabroek News

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Stop the developers, give us community and green space: A view from Jamaica - Stabroek News

By Honor Ford-Smith

Associate Professor, Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice

Associate Director, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean

York University, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change

What do you want for your cities, your villages, your communities, this region that is our home, the home of our children’s futures?

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