Mr. CI

THE CORRUPTION ACROSS THE GLOBE👨🏻‍⚖️: Government corruption is widely understood in the minds of Jamaican voters. According to an article published in The Gleaner, a popular Jamaican newspaper, surveys “constantly show that upwards of 70% of Jamaicans believe they live in a corrupt country” (Gleaner, 2020). Corruption cripples democratic thinking, and instills a level of fear in citizens who wish to exercise democratic participation. This was exemplified perfectly in Jamaica’s most recent election, as it had one of the lowest voter turnouts in Jamaican history at 37% (BBC 2020)

This fear to express political opinion contributes to the notion of Jamaica as a “flawed democracy”, a rating given to the nation by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2016. Far before Jamaica received this title, there were already multiple chinks in the armor of democracy.



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