Jamaica Vs. Barbadoes:

In anoth­er inci­dent, a Jamaican woman caught attempt­ing to smug­gle gan­ja, accused two Barbadian offi­cers of rap­ing and sex­u­al­ly assault­ing her while she was in cus­tody. Two cops have since been charged with sex­u­al assault and aid­ing and abet­ting but a third cop accused of rape can­not be found and Barbadian police say they believe he may have fled the island. As far as Authorities in Barbadoes are con­cerned there is a bur­geon­ing prob­lem with Jamaicans traf­fick­ing drugs into that coun­try, and enter­ing Barbadoes for the pur­pose of pros­ti­tu­tion. This has caused some fric­tion between the Jamaican Government and Barbadian Authorities. The Jamaican Government of course always quick on the trig­ger with its knee jerk respons­es, and absolute unwill­ing­ness to appro­pri­ate­ly deal with the vex­ing issue of crime in Jamaica. No one knows for sure what is the truth involved in the mat­ter of miss Myrie except her and the offi­cers involved in that inci­dent, we do hope that the truth will come out and if there was wrong doing on the part of the offi­cers , jus­tice will be done. One can only imag­ine how hor­ri­fy­ing that inci­dent must have been for her trav­el­ling out of the Island for the first time, irre­spec­tive of any crimes oth­ers may have com­mit­ted pre­vi­ous­ly, she cer­tain­ly did not deserve to be treat­ed with such indig­ni­ty for the trans­gres­sions of others.

Just last week.

Eight Jamaicans who were among twen­ty peo­ple detained on sus­pi­cion of smug­gling drugs into Barbados remain under police guard, as the process to retrieve the con­tra­band from their stom­ach continues.Two Barbadian nation­als were also held fol­low­ing their arrival, Wednesday, on a Caribbean Airlines flight at Grantley Adams International Airport.Public Relations Officer for the Royal Barbados Police Force, Inspector David Welch who pro­vid­ed an update on the inves­ti­ga­tions revealed that the num­ber of per­sons detained in this week’s drug bust sur­pass­es the num­ber of for­eign­ers arrest­ed at any one time for con­tra­band, on arrival in the island.“We have put mea­sures in place in order to con­tin­ue to keep the sur­veil­lance of air and sea­ports for an activ­i­ties like this” he said.The Barbados police spokesman was unable to pro­vide details on the amount of drugs retrieved from each individual.He says at the end of the process, the Drug Squad will tab­u­late the amount and sep­a­rate charges will be laid. Investigators are yet to deter­mine whether those arrest­ed were trav­el­ling as a group.

Meanwhile, two women caught import­ing cocaine into Jamaica were on Thursday sen­tenced to 18 months in prison and slapped with heavy fines. Those con­vict­ed are 30-year-old Alecia Williams of May Pen, Clarendon; and 25-year-old Babeth Bowland of Alexandria, St Ann.The two plead­ed guilty when they appeared before the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court. The nar­cotics police had report­ed that on July 27, Bowland was return­ing to the island on a flight from Guyana; at Norman Manley International Airport; when she was stopped and searched.Nearly three pounds of cocaine was found in a pair of sneak­ers in her suitcase.The fol­low­ing day, Williams was return­ing on a flight from Trinidad; when she was also stopped and searched. The cops say she was found to be in pos­ses­sion of near­ly two pounds of cocaine​.In addi­tion to their 18-month sen­tences, the two were each fined 650-thou­sand dol­lars. They will serve an addi­tion­al six months in prison if they fail to pay the fines. Fri. Aug.05,2011 8:00pm(cour­tesy RJR news)

I post­ed these news clips from media hous­es in Jamaica , there were sim­i­lar reports in the Barbadian dailies. What is obvi­ous is that the Barbadian Officials are cor­rect in what they say about Jamaicans bring­ing drugs into their coun­try, as is evi­denced the Royal Barbados Police are more deter­mined to stamp out this scourge. If those Jamaicans still under Police guard were actu­al­ly sus­pect­ed of hav­ing the con­tra­band in Jamaica they cer­tain­ly would not be under Police guard.

There would be howls of protest demand­ing that they be released. And a deaf­en­ing cho­rus from Elitists, argu­ing with increduli­ty, that police time could be spent in such triv­ial ways . It is evi­dent that Authorities in Jamaica still do not under­stand that prob­lems of crime , vio­lence, and ter­ror­ism must be nipped in the bud and erad­i­cat­ed before they have a chance to take root. Just this week a promi­nent Jamaican Journalist Dennie Quill wrote a col­umn berat­ing the Police for doing exact­ly what they were sup­posed to do, uphold the laws.

In his grandios­i­ty this is the rea­sons he has a prob­lems with the police.

‘Quote” Here are exam­ples of what I mean.

(1) In the first case, a motorist leaves home on a lazy Sunday to buy the news­pa­pers a short dis­tance away. He has the exact change for his intend­ed pur­chase but has left behind his wal­let with his iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. He is dri­ving his girl­friend’s car. He is stopped by the police and can­not pro­vide his licences. He is threat­ened with arrest, the car is about to be seized and an ugly scene devel­ops. Eventually, he is accom­pa­nied to his home where his girl­friend is present and assures the police that the car belongs to her and that it had not been stolen and that the man dri­ving it had her per­mis­sion to do so.

(2)Then there is anoth­er case in which a motorist is being dri­ven to the air­port by her son, who is a duly licensed dri­ver. They are stopped by the police and the car papers are not in the vehi­cle. The own­er of the vehi­cle and moth­er of the dri­ver, explains that she changed her hand­bag that morn­ing and had inad­ver­tent­ly left the car papers behind since she would not need them for her trip over­seas. This sounds like a rea­son­able expla­na­tion. However, the police­man is not buy­ing it. He threat­ens to seize the car until proof of own­er­ship can be estab­lished. He accom­pa­nies them to the air­port and then to the near­by police station.

(3)And, final­ly, a moth­er of a five-year-old is tak­ing her daugh­ter to school one morn­ing. It is the end of the month and the police are strate­gi­cal­ly placed all over the city car­ry­ing out their spot checks. She is stopped and her insur­ance has expired. She explained that she had been over­seas and had just returned to the island overnight and would have it rec­ti­fied that day. The police­man was not con­vinced. He was on his phone in a flash and before she could tell her name, the car was seized she was left on the side­walk to explain to her child what had just occurred.(Jamaica Gleaner .com Aug 3: 2011)

In all three instances here the motorists are wrong, broke the law and the actions of the police jus­ti­fied, except fol­low­ing the motorist to their homes to ver­i­fy their sto­ries . The police has absolute­ly no oblig­a­tion to fol­low a motorist home to ver­i­fy a sto­ry , that is a mat­ter for the courts, the offence was com­mit­ted, take the car, arrest the offend­er , tell it to the judge. At least that is what hap­pens in a coun­try of laws and peo­ple who obey laws , not in wild west Jamaica. as if this igno­rance was not enough this jour­nal­ist had more to say .

Quote: In all the above cas­es, I am point­ing to the man­ner in which the law is applied by the police. It is arbi­trary and situational

What I have to say to Dennie quill is this. In all of the above cas­es the police was right , go get a copy of the road traf­fic act read it and don’t open your damn mouth untill you get a clue.

The offi­cers must nev­er accom­pa­ny any­one any­where to ver­i­fy any­thing, this opens them up to all kinds of accu­sa­tions of crim­i­nal­i­ty and cor­rup­tion , if the police are guilty of any­thing , it is doing too much. Arrest the offend­er , take the vehi­cle , let them tell it to the judge. The Irony inher­ent in that Article by Quill was the abil­i­ty of one fool to make many , there was a pletho­ra of ” yes boss yes boss” type respons­es to the non­sense . The usu­al anti police , anti rule of law com­ments we have all come to expect from Jamaicans. I urge the police author­i­ties to con­tin­ue to arrest for minor infrac­tions and do not wait for large crimes, let the vil­lage lawyers like Quill, and all the oth­ers com­plain, as long as they have their papers with them when they dri­ve, they are enti­tled to free­dom of speech.

What I want to point to how­ev­er, is the sen­tence met­ed out to the women by the Jamaican courts Alecia Williams was sen­tenced to 18 months for bring­ing almost 2 pounds of cocaine into the coun­try and fined J$650.000 . Babeth Bowland was sen­tenced to 18 months in prison for bring­ing almost 3 pounds of cocaine into the coun­try and fined J$650;000 , both ordered to serve an addi­tion­al 6 months in jail if they do not pay the fine. Message to all Drug deal­ers ‚Jamaica is open for busi­ness, this is absolute­ly the place for those who wants to deal drugs. I mean are you kid­ding me what kind of luna­cy is this ? Are the brains of these Judges cor­rod­ed with cob­webs? these moron­ic Judges have lit­er­al­ly turned the coun­try into a banana republic.

Mark Myrie (Buju Banton) sen­tenced to 10 years in Federal Prison after being con­vict­ed of con­spir­a­cy to deal in nar­cotics, he did not deal the con­tra­band. 10 years . In Jamaica peo­ple get caught bring­ing pounds of nar­cotics into the coun­try and gets slapped on the wrist with feath­ers. Anyone won­der­ing why Jamaica is one of the mur­der cap­i­tals of the world needs look no further,.

I write on this sit­u­a­tion in these blogs under the title (Jamaica“s mad lib­er­al Judges) about the absolute dis­grace of a jus­tice sys­tem that obtains there. The bro­ken sys­tem cre­ates all kinds of back­lash, police apa­thy, police tak­ing bribes, esca­la­tion in seri­ous crimes, wit­ness killings, wit­ness tam­per­ing, vic­tims not report­ing crimes, dis­re­spect for the rule of law, alleged extra- judi­cial killings, mob killings, no con­fi­dence in the sys­tem to dis­pense jus­tice, and the list goes on and on.

Jamaican author­i­ties have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly failed to put crim­i­nals in jail where they belong. Jamaica is a tri­al lawyers par­adise, they love the sys­tem­at­ic cor­rup­tion with­in the population,to include their own col­leagues, and gross neglect on the part of activist judges. The pop­u­la­tion is at the mer­cy of doped up mind­less demons who sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly rape, rob, and decap­i­tate their help­less, hap­less vic­tims with un-encum­bered aban­don. The dope that is brought in by those very mules, are the dope that trans­forms the mind­less killers to indulge in their ghoul­ish pas­time. Myopic Jamaican Authorities are clue­less as to how to deal with this scourge, but have the nerve to chal­lenge Barbadian Authorities who wants a crime free coun­try, or at least one that is free of Jamaican drug crazed decap­i­ta­tions, they have that right.

It becomes clear­er by the day that the voic­es of anar­chy are get­ting loud­er and loud­er, my father tells me there is a silent major­i­ty of Jamaicans who real­ly want to see change in the oth­er direc­tion . I am a doubter, where are they? At every lev­el of Jamaican soci­ety there is an incom­pre­hen­si­ble sup­port and encour­age­ment for crim­i­nal­i­ty, those who do not sup­port or encour­age it ‚spend their time ratio­nal­iz­ing it. Speaking out against crime in Jamaica can get you killed.

It has become increas­ing­ly hard for the Jamaican Government to open their mouths to the Barbadian Government in light of recent devel­op­ments. On the same day that group was arrest­ed , two oth­er Jamaicans were each sen­tenced to 3 year terms of impris­on­ment in Barbadoes for smug­gling drugs into that coun­try. Those recent events have dealt Barbadoes a pub­lic rela­tions coup , one that will con­tin­ue to rever­ber­ate around the Caribbean, while our peo­ple con­tin­ue in their mind­less quest of mate­r­i­al wealth at all cost, con­se­quences be dammed.