Soaring 480 miles south of Florida, across the Caribbean Sea, to the Caribbean's third largest island, and landing on a landmass no larger than the state of Connecticut, most people expect to find themselves surrounded by no less than scenic beauty. ... Leaving an island, no bigger than the state of Connecticut, with no less than 2.5 million people, flying across the Caribbean Sea, and 480 miles north to Florida, most people would land with nothing less than the desire to some day return. ...

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The investment can be used to restart the loan program giving fisher folk an opportunity to fix up their boats in order to go further out to sea where there is more variety of fish to be caught. ... Decades after the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea gave Jamaica a 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the waters south of the island, foreigners, rather than Jamaicans, are reeling in the catch. ... Fisher folk complain of a lack of Government action to deal with the problem and the absence of a coherent policy to help Jamaicans exploit its lucrative sea resources. In fact, thi...

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