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The Earth Most Strangest Man: The Rastafarian by Mortimo Planno
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Social Conditions

Any self-respecting Jamaican who passes throuh such slum areas as the Foreshore Road, Back o'Wall, Davis Lane or the like cannot but be ashamed. Several of these slums result from squatting on private land. No water is available. Pit latrines are illegal in Kingston; human waste is deposited between the shacks. K.S.A.C. carts will not enter upon private land to collect rubbish, so that too is deposited between the shacks. If these people were not squatting, the landlord would be obliged to provide water and sewage disposal.
The trouble is that squatting is tolerated, but not recognised. It is tolerated because the Government is not building sufficient low-rent houses to eliminate squatting. It is not recognised because to recognise it might involve buying the land from landlords in areas where the market value of land is counted in thousands of pounds per acre. And because it is not recognised, the squatters get no amenities.

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