A woman we name!
“A woman we name, so we born lucky!” - Lady Saw.
Over the last three years, 141 Jamaicans have taken their lives, 128 men and 13 women. Jamaica’s suicide level is pretty low by world standards. There were 48 in 2008, meaning a national rate of about 1.66 per 100,000, far below say Lithuania’s world leading 38.6, Trinidad’s 12.8 or the United States’ 11.1. Yet while men everywhere kill themselves more often than women, our 10-1 sexual disparity is virtually unprecedented.
