It isn’t a name that’s familiar to the people of Jamaica, or the wider Caribbean –Cox’s Bazar.Cox’s Bazar is a 13 square kilometre tent city in Bangladesh. The people who live there, 1.2 million Rohingyas from Myanmar, are not without relevance to Jamaica and the Caribbean. But, they are an example of what can happen when societies are destabilised - whether by conflict, natural disasters or other disruptions.

It isn’t a name that’s familiar to the people of Jamaica, or the wider Caribbean –Cox’s Bazar.Cox’s Bazar is a 13 square kilometre tent city in Bangladesh. The people who live…

THE EDITOR, Madam:The June 13 Gleaner editorial, Lessons from Cox's Bazar, deserves commendation for elevating a discussion that is too often (cynically) reduced to questions of…