Why Jamaica is poor

"Two hundred years ago, Jamaica was the richest colony in the British Empire by a distance, and its citizens, like Simon Taylor and Thomas Thistlewood, the most wealthy. Falmouth famously had running water before New York. How did we go from such prosperity in 1814 to such poverty today?"

Find out the answer in Keiran King's online column under Commentary on www.jamaica-gleaner.com Wednesday, March 5.