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Jamaica is a source, transit, and destination country for adults and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. [1]Domestically, most victims are impoverished women and children enticed from rural parts of the country to metropolitan areas by family members or newspaper classified job postings for spa attendants, masseurs, or exotic dancers. [2]
Prostitution in Jamaica is illegal but widely tolerated, [1] [2] especially in tourist areas. [3] UNAIDS estimate there to be 18,696 prostitutes in the country. [4] The island is a destination for sex tourism. [5] The Terry McMillan novel, and later film, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was based on female sex tourism in Jamaica. [5 ...
As Jamaica Plain became a part of Boston, the rate of growth continued to increase. The triple decker house, a defining image in urban New England architecture, first showed up in the 1870s, and spread rapidly in the 1890s. In Jamaica Plain, the first commercial blocks were built in the 1870s, with the first brick commercial building erected in ...
Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood in Boston. Pages in category "People from Jamaica Plain" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total. This list ...
From a socioeconomic point of view, Liguanea is the name of a distinct commercial district: east to west, between Half-Way-Tree (up to Jamaica House) and Papine (at UTech's front gate); north to south, between Millsborough (Barbican Road) and New Kingston (Mountain View Road to Trafalgar Road).
VA Medical Center Boston (Jamaica Plain campus) The VA Boston Healthcare System is a set of hospitals run by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in the Greater Boston area. It comprises nine campuses, with three major medical centers in Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, and Brockton.
Monument Square Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of Monument Square in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The 43 acres (17 ha) district is bounded on the northwest by Pond Street, the northeast by Myrtle and Pond Streets, the southeast by Centre Street (excluding the commercial properties on Centre Street itself), and Holbrook and ...
One of the top ten credit unions in Jamaica, GSB Co-operative Credit Union has a branch here. Clarendon is the location of the Milk River Bath, a mineral spa famous for the therapeutic value of its waters. The oldest church on the island is in Alley, the old capital of Vere. Halse Hall Great House is one of the island's historic houses. The ...