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The Real Cost of Bauxite: Who Profits in Jamaica?
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Mandeville look nice. Cool breeze. Big houses. Church every corner. But let me ask you something. Who actually got rich off Manchester's bauxite? Foreign companies have been pulling aluminium ore out of Manchester's red dirt since the 1950s. Reynolds, Alcan, Kaiser. American corporations. They came, they dug, and they exported Jamaica's wealth straight to Wall Street. Right now in 2026 there is a three billion dollar bauxite expansion happening. Jamalco upgrading. Alpart refinery coming back online. Jamaica targeting 1.4 million tons of alumina. Half a billion US dollars in exports every year. And the bauxite industry still only contributes 1.8
