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Gleaner, The (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Kingston, Kingston Dally Vol No 302 ESTABLISHED 1834 KINGSTON JAMAICA THURS DEC 27 30 PAGES IT IS ESTIMATED that there are ple in Jamaica now ing cocaine and a potent derivative of caine and ganja users Dr C irl Stone Professor ol Political Sociology at the UWI Mona has disclosed this in a National on the Use ol Drugs in Jamaica he conducted for the United States Agency tor International Development from August to October 1990 According to Stone s sur vev trends In the of co bv thr police In Jamaica sug jested that in recent Jamaica are ganja users Study shows has Itself become a market for the sale and distribution of cocaine and crack both to tourists and to the local residents The use of these hard drugs by Jamaicans especially cocaine and crack the survey states has com bmed with the long tradition of marijuana use and smoking that goes back to to the period of slavery m the 19th Century to create a growing and serious problem ot drug use and abuse in Jamaica I he sample consisted oi 5 000 divided equally between males and females and the target population was 1400000 Jamaicans 15 years old and over The sample was drawn from 100 communities selected randomly from a list of electoral districts and was stratified to represent the va rious regions of the country A sample of 5 000 households was selected randomly with 50 house holds being selected for each com munity The survey findings showed that an overwhelming majority of Ja in all the various types of communities in our samples have an awareness that the country has a drug use problem Unemployment and the shortage of money or income the survey found emerged as the No 1 lem Jamaicans think was adversely affecting the country s young peo pie Although it attracts far less con cern overall compared to unemploy ment and the shortage of money the found the pattern of drug use by the youth emerged as the second most frequently cited youth problem A significant mi of citizens In both urban and rural areas see the taking of drugs by youth as a serious problem According to the survey Jamai can opinion has a quite fa view ot ganja alcohol and cigarettes and reserves most of its concern over for the hard drugs such as crack and co ke which they believe are being increasingly consumed by young people especially in urban areas With a population of 246 million people the survey said the ed States has an estimated five million regular users of coke and crack or an average of popula tlon using the drugs The compara ble figure for Jamaica is 0 Jamaican consumption of crack and coke is clearly below the U S level due primarily to the fact that female consumption of these drugs Is still quite negligible Male con sumption levels in Jamaica er are slightly above the overall male-female U S percentage use of cocaine and crack Our data suggest that there are some people in Jamaica currently using cocaine and crack out of a population of some 2 5 million Professor Stone s survey con eludes The Jamaican Government clearly needs to develop a strategy to cope with the new large inflow of illegal hard drugs to complement the existing eradication policies which concentrate on reducing drug exports to the United States and other countries where the ille gal drug industry continues to thrive in spite of multi billion dollar enforcement programmes and ef forts Junior Dowie photo MON IMF I H Of- URIS 1 nib tht Si INSIDE P i 1 illin Hb star ol i m in is hr i t as ht u it ht ti m t r tl c i i frit ncl Police be h t IK i hoked to rlt ith nn h s n turt s P ILI I rt side nt Gorbachev looks o It t new vt tr mort ptm i rs after i vt ar th it s lu it I itt i d th CELEBRATED THE CHURCH U h so in on tht md in tht shopping pi is ind art uli s doing their last shopping Christmas morning r mi sit ans v nt to t hurc hos at ross tht Island lor u t s ot th and worship fommon lor which began from as as S o t lock Christmas which u h o t lot k u is tak ing plat I lit 1 gathering at tin mart hid in tilt to tht iltar took bread I ht sermon bv lor tin t hurch Kt I tl mund uas based on tht of tht birth ot Jesus C lilt uas quit t md and that should makt themselves to God and share in his council as an lion of tht coming of Christ to save man At tht Kingston Parish Church South Parade a small congregation sat in silent meditation waiting for tht morning s servitt to begin Tragic deaths mar Christmas holidays TRAGIC DEATHS shrouded the Christmas holidays of 1990 as eight people lost their lives In road accidents and in violent m on Christmas Eve and Christmas A five month old baby and his mother were among the casual ties violent deaths on Christmas Eve and Christmas took to 704 the number ot people to have been killed vlo the start of the vear and December 25 Of this number 528 pet pit have been murdered 147 killed bv the Police and 29 described as justifiable homicide killed by citizens said to their property The five to have died were killed in Kingston Claren don and St Catherine between Christmas Eve and Christmas Dav are Janet Williams 24 of Gardens Kingston Paul Barrett 27 also known as Purple of Union Gardens Kingston Herbert 1 aylor 20 mechanic of Wakefield Claren don Roosevelt Williamson 38 ot Raphael Kingston and Oliver 86 of Bog Walk St Catherine Three people were killed in motor vehicle accidents on Christmas Day bringing the road fatalities this year up to Christmas Day to 374 Velma Stokes 23 and her five month old son Daren Taylor both of Gardens were killed when hit a motorcar along Spanish Town Road about 6 30 p m on Christmas Dav Smith ol Sheckles Clarendon was hit off his killed bv a truck on the Store main road Dav Fire claimed the life of Limal James 70 farmer of Water works Westmoreland when his van caught fire on the Logwood mam road on And 25 people were left homeless when fire ot n origin destroyed their homes on Brvce Hill Road August Town St Andrew on Christmas Eve Details page 2 Editorial page 6

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