Drug trafficking here distorts the local economy and has been responsible for 30% of the homicides here per annum.
These were among the findings of the United Nations’ Caribbean Human Development Report 2012: Human Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security. It was the first time that such a report had been done in the Caribbean context.
While the report’s findings about the impact of drugs on the economy and murders is not novel, it adds to growing body of work that a