Jamaicans often say to each other, “Jamaica is not a real place,” as we shake our heads at the beauty and madness of our birthplace.
On last week’s episode of Jamaica Is Not a Real Place, a day before the country’s official Emancipation holiday, there was another kind of freedom: legendary dancehall artist Vybz Kartel was freed from prison after 13 years.
The moment the news was announced, whispers shot around the island, from fancy boardrooms to the janitors cleaning them. Taxi men actually paused from their incessant honking, and local cellular services faltered from an overload of calls and texts..
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