Warning Of Real Threats Yet Jamaica Pussy-foots With National Security…

Once again American Authorities are warn­ing of the like­li­hood that ter­ror groups like ISIL will see the Caribbean region as fer­tile soil from which to launch attacks.
According to Media reports General John Kelly, com­man­der of the Miami-based US Southern Command, or SouthCOM, told reporters Friday at the Pentagon that about 150 Islamic extrem­ists left the Caribbean region to join Islamic State fight­ers in the Middle East last year, about 50 more than in the pre­vi­ous year.
He esti­mat­ed that about 150 rad­i­cals have attempt­ed to join the Islamic State group as of this year, up from his esti­mate last year of rough­ly 100. Last year, Kelly told the United States Congress that those who suc­ceed in reach­ing Islamic State group ter­ri­to­ry “get good at killing and pick up some job skills,” such as work­ing with explo­sives and behead­ing ene­my fight­ers for pro­pa­gan­da purposes.

While we con­sid­er this it is impor­tant to note that this Medium have been call­ing on the Caribbean Islands to do more to deal effec­tive­ly with crime and hope­less­ness by elim­i­nat­ing Government graft and cor­rup­tion which are some of the fac­tors fuel­ing dis­en­chant­ment with­in the youth populations.
English speak­ing Caribbean Nations like Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados have made it known they will not tol­er­ate crim­i­nal­i­ty on their shores with­out fight­ing back.
In fact sev­er­al mem­ber-states with­in the Caribbean com­mu­ni­ty have proac­tive­ly tak­en steps to lim­it the access of peo­ple they deem National Security risks.
Some have gone fur­ther by pre­vent­ing even some musi­cal artiste from enter­ing their coun­tries or per­form­ing because of the con­tent of their music.
Jamaica is prob­a­bly most impact­ed by the actions tak­en by the pro­gres­sive strate­gies insti­tut­ed by oth­er Islands.
Still it appears Jamaican author­i­ties are inca­pable of under­stand­ing the need to treat crime and law­less­ness as a mat­ter of top priority.
Jamaica polit­i­cal lead­ers con­tin­ue to feed the pop­u­la­tion the Nationalistic gob­bledy­gook which sound good to the local pop­u­la­tion but has no use in the broad­er Caribbean much less the rest of the world.

When oth­er coun­tries are bar­ring your nation­als because they fear the crime they bring you can talk all the trash you want but you know you got a problem.
As many includ­ing this writer has warned , the time is now for Jamaican author­i­ties to extri­cate them­selves from crim­i­nal con­nec­tions and pre­pare law enforce­ment to deal effec­tive­ly with this loom­ing and immi­nent threat.
This includes stiffer and more strin­gent penal­ties for vio­lent crim­i­nals. Instituting manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tences for cer­tain cat­e­gories of vio­lent crimes. Keeping accused mur­der­ers in jail until they are tried. Training and equip­ping the police to deal effec­tive­ly with ter­ror­ism and vio­lent crimes. Paying the police com­men­su­rate with the work they do which will reduce cor­rup­tion in law-enforce­ment. Improve the mech­a­nisms by which inves­ti­ga­tions are done and upgrad­ing pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al capabilities.

Eliminating sup­port for local crim­i­nals by politi­cians and polit­i­cal par­ties. Drafting and pass­ing leg­is­la­tion which seri­ous­ly penal­izes politi­cians found with crim­i­nal asso­ci­a­tions. Increase oppor­tu­ni­ties for the Island’s young peo­ple, includ­ing manda­to­ry two years (2) mil­i­tary ser­vice for those not going to college.
Personally I am tired of implor­ing our own Jamaican politi­cians to pull back from the cor­ro­sive prac­tices of thiev­ery and malfea­sance which caus­es young peo­ple to have scant regard for the rule of law.
If the events of 2010 did not inform their con­sciences and con­scious­ness then it is prob­a­bly safe to say pret­ty soon we will see ISIL and oth­er ter­ror groups oper­at­ing cells from this beau­ti­ful Island.