In 1977, 15 years after its break from British colonial rule, Jamaica is forced to borrow $4.5 billion from the IMF to service its development.
In a story echoed in dozens of countries across the world, the self-interested trading controls then attached to these loans by IMF creditors forced Jamaica into ever greater poverty.
Caputured with poetic insight, Life and Debt looks at the ports developed exclusively for foreign company trading, as we meet the local workers forced out of jobs by the influx of cheap, untaxed imports flooding the market.
