Jamaica quarterly update
Hurricane Ivan strikes Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in September 2004 with Category 4 force, destroying homes and infrastructure across the island. The Caribbean diaspora in Britain mobilises rapidly to raise funds and provide support. In the same period, the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004 passes into law, bringing further restrictions that alarm community organisations.
Quarterly Update | October–December 2004 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q4 2004 in Six Lines December 26: The Day…
Quarterly Update | October–December 2004 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q4 2004 in Six Lines December 26: The Tsunami…
Quarterly Update | July–September 2004 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q3 2004 in Six Lines Hurricane Ivan: Jamaica’s Most…
The Iraq War continues to define British politics in the first half of 2004, straining the Caribbean community’s relationship with the Blair government. PJ Patterson uses Jamaica’s international platform to press for debt relief and fair trade for the Caribbean, while the diaspora in Britain navigates a political landscape in which its concerns about immigration enforcement and racial equality compete with the war for political oxygen.
Quarterly Update | April–June 2004 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q2 2004 in Six Lines A Founding Moment: The…
Quarterly Update | January–March 2004 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q1 2004 in Six Lines Madrid, March 11: Terror…
The second half of 2003 brings the Caribbean community in Britain through the summer of a war it opposed and into a political autumn shaped by the Hutton Inquiry, the Kelly affair, and the continued erosion of trust in the Blair government. Immigration enforcement tightens. In Jamaica, PJ Patterson secures electoral success and Caribbean integration advances, but crime and debt remain urgent concerns.
Quarterly Update | October–December 2003 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q4 2003 in Six Lines Saddam Captured: The World…
Quarterly Update | July–September 2003 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q3 2003 in Six Lines The Great Blackout: 55…
The first half of 2003 is defined by the Iraq War: the mass mobilisation against it on 15 February, when up to two million people marched in London in the largest demonstration in British history, and then the war itself, which begins on 20 March despite that opposition. For the Caribbean community, whose post-colonial tradition generates deep scepticism of Western military intervention, the decision to go to war is a profound betrayal by a Labour government it has consistently supported.
The first half of 2003 is defined by the Iraq War: the mass mobilisation against it on 15 February, when up to two million people marched in London in the largest demonstration in British history, and then the war itself, which begins on 20 March despite that opposition. For the Caribbean community, the decision to go to war is a profound breach of trust with a Labour government it has consistently supported.
Quarterly Update | April–June 2003 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q2 2003 in Six Lines Mission Accomplished? A Diaspora…
Quarterly Update | January–March 2003 | Jamaica Homes News Key Takeaways: Q1 2003 in Six Lines February 15: The World…
The XVII Commonwealth Games, hosted by Manchester in July and August 2002, bring together the Caribbean athletic world and the diaspora communities of the host nation in a celebration of sporting excellence. Jamaica’s athletes perform with distinction. PJ Patterson wins his fourth consecutive general election in October 2002. And as the year ends, the prospect of a British-American war against Iraq casts a long shadow over a community already alarmed by post-September 11 security legislation.