Devon Taylor and Emiel Martens | Beach dispossession in Jamaica: What’s the data really telling us?

In recent weeks, the Jamaican government has launched a campaign to counter the growing public discontent over beach access across the island. Instead of engaging with the discontent and acknowledging the issue, the government’s reputation management, or rather crisis management, has focused on discrediting those speaking out and presenting statistics suggesting that there is “no problem” in Jamaica.