Supporters of the Campaign to Free Desmond Trotter leafleted rock and reggae group the Wailers at the Lyceum last week. They drew attention to some aspects of the Caribbean which are usually kept well hid.
In une part of Kingston where une wallers come trom, tamiles desperate for homes regularly squat on disused car and rubbish dumps. UTIC They use the discarded bodies of the cars as houses, and live on whatever they can find on the tips. With a chronic housing shortage, unemployment of up to 30 per cent. inflation at 25 per cent and the proneering and corrupton of both businessmen and politicians in Jamaica, all that the poor get is.
But it's not only poverty and neglect for the poor and the unem- island. ployed. In the same area stands the now notorious Gun Court.
With barbed wire, watch-towers, armed guards and dogs outside and cells just big enough to turn round inside, this Jamaican-style internment camp is a detention centre, courtroom and prison camp all in Meanwhile Desmond Trotter, the young freedom fighter and member of the Movement for a which he has finally appealed. New Dominica, is still awaiting execution in Dominica on a frame up charge of killing a white tourist. This despite the fact that he and outer browners and sisters nave been hunted down simply for fightine to change the conditions of via solidarity meetings, resolutions, messages of support and money to the Campaign to Free Desmond
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