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In this photo taken on April 19, 2014, coach Kerry-Ann Sutherlan, right, and girls from Belair High School from Mandeville Manchester, Jamaica, watch their team play during the Florida Netball Classic junior tournament at Pompey Park Recreation Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Jennifer Kay)

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In this April 4, 2014, photo, homeless youths hang clothes on a metal bar running over a trash-strewn sewer canal where they live, by a busy road in Jamaica’s capital of Kingston. They are part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT

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In this, April 25, 2014, photo, gay rights activist James Burton, center, of the Color Pink Group, chats with a group of young homosexual men about HIV and health issues at a shopping mall in Kingston, Jamaica. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. But this normally wary group is welcoming a recent outreach as a volunteer reaches out to tthem with health advice. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT

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In this April 4, 2014, photo, a young transgender Jamaican checks her wig in a mirror at the entrance of a sewer pipe along a trash-strewn canal where she lives beneath a busy road in Kingston, Jamaica. She is part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT

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In this Friday, April 4, 2014, photo, a young gay man hangs out at the entrance of a sewer pipe along a trash-strewn canal where he lives beneath a busy road in Kingston, Jamaica. He is part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. Gay sex and prostitution is illegal in Jamaica, and LGBT people who sell sex face arrest or worse. Roughly 33 percent of men who have sex with men are believed to be infected on Jamaica. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT

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In this, April 4, 2014, photo, homeless youths hang out at the entrance of a sewer pipe along a trash-strewn canal where they live beneath a busy road in Kingston, Jamaica. They are part of a small group of young, gay and transgender Jamaicans who mostly sell sex to make money. In much of the world, giving out condoms and guidance to gay, bisexual and transgender sex workers is routine. But reaching out to men who have sex with men is practically revolutionary in parts of the English-speaking Caribbean, where homophobia and laws criminalizing gay sex have long driven people underground. (AP Photo/David McFadden) - JAMAICA OUT

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FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2009, file photo, workers sift through debris surrounding the fuselage of American Airlines flight AA331 which crash landed overnight on a flight from Miami to Jamaica, just beyond the runway of Norman Manley International Airport, in Kingston Jamaica. An investigation into a plane accident almost five years ago at a Jamaican airport has concluded that an American Airlines jet flying in from Miami botched the landing and the flight crew may have been fatigued. (AP Photo/Lloyd Robinson, File) JAMAICA OUT

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FILE - In this June 24, 2010, file photo, DEA agents bring Jamaican gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke From Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle in White Plains, New York. Investigators in Jamaica have traced a relatively paltry sum of dirty money to a convicted gang kingpin who profited from government contracts while he oversaw an international crime syndicate, a senior official said Tuesday, April 29, 2014. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)