In not speaking out, the government has broken with a proud Caribbean history of condemning human rights violations
For Jamaicans, the absence of the country’s representative at last week’s UN general assembly vote on a call for a “humanitarian truce” in the Israel-Hamas war was more than just an embarrassing political effort to “walk between raindrops”, as one government critic put it. It was shameful.
In the annals of international diplomatic history, Jamaica’s decision on apartheid in July 1959 was a pivotal moment.
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