Jamaica BANS Music And TV Broadcasts That Glorifies Crime, Violence, Drug and Guns
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Jamaica’s broadcasting regulator has banned music and TV broadcasts deemed to
glorify or promote criminal activity, violence, drug use, scamming and
weapons.
The government said the ban is meant to cut back on
material that ‘could give the wrong impression that criminality is an accepted
feature of Jamaican culture and society.’
Jamaican artists
criticized the measure, saying it cuts populations affected by heightened gun
violence out of the conversation, and that it will do little to stop crime.
Art imitates life, and the music is coming from what is happening in Jamaica
for real,’ said Stephen McGregor, a Jamaican Grammy Award-winning music
producer and singer. ‘But because it doesn’t fit the moral mold of what they
would like it to look like, they try to hamper it.’
The ban comes
after years of struggle by the Caribbean nation to halt high levels of gun
violence, which caused Jamaica to have the highest murder rate in Latin
America and the Caribbean last year, according to research centre Insight
Crime.
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