"Caribbean nations... are paying a steep price in lives and lost economic opportunities because of soaring crime, according to the World Bank and United Nation's first-ever report on the economic costs of crime"
"Reducing the murder rate by one-third would more than double per capita economic growth for the region, according to the report released Thursday"
"The region has the word's highest murder rate, and the economies of Haiti and Jamaica would grow 5.4 percentage points faster annually if they reduced their crime rates to levels similar to Costa Rica, the report said."
the article states that the problem is too many unemployed young men.......the US doesn't have this problem because they get put in JAIL....but this is an expensive solution..............
