When I came back to Jamaica from school in Canada in 1989, the $JA:US rate was 5.75. By 1994 it was over 33, a 583% increase in 5 years. It is now 141, meaning a 2,452% increase over 30 years. Given this historical context, the five to ten percent fluctuations of recent years are hardly worth panicking about.

In most cases, the problem is not that governments are weak; it is that they are complicit, deliberately supporting criminal groups for the sake of both power and enrichment. In Bangladesh, Jamaica, and Nigeria, for example, political parties hire criminal gangs to herd their voters to the polls during elections and scare away the opposition, then protect the gangs between campaigns. — www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2019-04-16/real-killer

Dear Sirs  

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls.  Who steals my purse steals trash...  But he that filches from me my good name , Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.