Potemkin village news today,
Obama Clean-up anger
Vendors furious about their stalls being demolished
“Is more than 40 years I have been selling right here so. Is through this selling I was able to send all of my children to school. Imagine, the Queen come here and them never remove wi, the Prince also come and we were allowed to stay, so why now?” said the distraught woman.
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The clean-up operation was questioned in light of the fact that US and Jamaican Government officials have said that Obama would be airlifted by helicopter from the Norman Manley International Airport to Up Park Camp from where he would travel by road to his hotel in New Kingston.
It sounds to me like urban planners were using this visit as a pretext.
Related:
Two can play the CARICOM game
Harf-tastic!