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Did He Overstep His Authority?

The Editorial page of the Jamaica Gleaner of late seem to have under­gone a transformation. 

It is hard to tell who is the person/​s behind the edi­to­r­i­al , is it male or female? is it one per­son or a group of peo­ple, do they share the same phi­los­o­phy or do they oper­ate as inde­pen­dent indi­vid­u­als opin­ing based on prin­ci­pled gut convictions?

The afore­men­tioned is dif­fi­cult to estab­lish because the writer/​s have the lux­u­ry of anonymi­ty. We would hope that based on that lux­u­ry edi­to­r­i­al page writer/​s would be respon­si­ble , objec­tive, fair, respect­ful, thought­ful, and care­ful. just rec­og­niz­ing that to whom much is giv­en , much is required. 

Such is the pow­er of the pen ‚par­tic­u­lar­ly in a soci­ety like Jamaica where peo­ple put sig­nif­i­cant stock into the views of cer­tain peo­ple over that of others.

It has become notice­able to this blog that of late the Gleaner’s Editorial page has shown a marked change from the more cir­cum­spect rea­soned approach we had grown accus­tomed to for decades, to one that seem to want to push alien views on us that sure­ly have no res­o­nance or hold any sway with the vast major­i­ty of the Jamaican pop­u­lace. As if that was not bad enough, we have also detect­ed a snarl of elit­ist con­den­sion in the spir­it of the afore­men­tioned Pages.

It is the right of the Gleaner to pub­lish what it choos­es on it’s edi­to­r­i­al pages . We would not want to pick a fight with some­one who buys ink in a bar­rel, After all we do speak our minds on these blogs. What the Gleaner must appre­ci­ate though, thanks to the pow­er of tech­nol­o­gy , is that we will push back hard when they choose to be con­de­send­ing and dis­re­spect­ful to peo­ple who sac­ri­fice for our country.

We speak par­tic­u­lar­ly of todays Editorial titled: “The police are not the executive”.

In the edi­to­r­i­al the anony­mous writer blast­ed Senior Superintendent of Police Radcliff Lewis for what it char­ac­ter­izes as Lewis’ attempt at exec­u­tive deci­sion-mak­ing by allow­ing robot taxi oper­a­tors to oper­ate after Licensed taxi oper­a­tors in Spanish Town decid­ed to strike this week over dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the way they have been reg­u­lat­ed and for oth­er per­ceived grievances.

We have no quar­rel with the writer about blast­ing Lewis for his alleged state­ments refer­ring to the scabs as quote “reserve soldiers”. 

Frankly I do not know on whose author­i­ty Lewis was oper­at­ing, there is no prece­dent in law or oth­er­wise where the police may take such steps, we agree that if those mea­sures are to be tak­en those are to be tak­en by exec­u­tive action,.

Lewis a prag­mat­ic cop may have over­stepped his bounds dramatically.

Jamaica requires unusu­al and prag­mat­ic approach­es to get­ting solu­tions, the Police have always sought to use its pow­ers to help the Jamaican peo­ple, unsung. In his effort at prob­lem solv­ing he over­stepped his author­i­ty, a move that was sure to draw the ire of the usu­al crit­ics like our friends at the edi­to­r­i­al board of the Gleaner, who are always going to be unable to see the for­est for the trees.

The ques­tion is, as wrong as Lewis’ actions are, had he kept his mouth shut, would the unli­cenced cab oper­a­tors have stayed home? what impact did Lewis’ actions have in actu­al­ly enhanc­ing that action.

We note the writer was very con­cerned about the safe­ty of rid­ers , whilst at the same time reg­is­ter­ing relief at the fact that no one was injured in this Lewis Executive grab. We do see how the writer could feel total relief that no one was injured , after all this notion of ille­gal taxi oper­a­tion is a total­ly alien phe­nom­e­non in Jamaican cul­ture (sic).

We do not dis­agree with the let­ter of the Article, what we dis­agree with is the spir­it . The writer used terms to describe SSP Lewis that at best are con­de­scend­ing, and at worst bla­tant­ly demean­ing. Colourful, rough cut, Our newest ad hoc and unelect­ed law­mak­er, scan­dalous, uncom­pli­cat­ed ‚rus­tic.

Rustic?

Those char­ac­ter­i­za­tions are elit­ists code words, aimed at bring­ing Lewis, or any oth­er unfor­tu­nate soul they are aimed at into know­ing their place, SSP Lewis made a mis­take in what he is alleged to have done, and for this Ellington must have some seri­ous con­ver­sa­tions with him. His gravest error is that of not under­stand­ing the vicious caste sys­tem that still per­sists in Jamaica to this day.

Good inten­tions on the part of SSP Lewis does not mean actions that are legal. His actions lead us to ask if he may not have been pro­mot­ed above his capabilities.

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Jamaica’s Gangs :

This is the sec­ond blog we have post­ed on the sub­ject of Gangs oper­at­ing in Jamaica.

Recently the Jamaica Gleaner wrote a series of Editorials titled (Gangs of Parliament) these Editorials evoked pas­sions on both sides of the issue, some felt the label was too harsh to be assigned to those charged with run­ning the affairs of our coun­try. They argue those char­ac­ter­i­za­tions are dis­re­spect­ful, and does noth­ing to enhance Jamaica’s stand­ing in the world.

Others on the oth­er side of the issue argue the labels are appro­pri­ate , as our politi­cians are less than scrupu­lous, to the point some are active­ly involved in crim­i­nal activ­i­ty. There are oth­ers who feel the Editorials were one-sided, slant­ed against the Governing Jamaica Labor Party of Prime Minister Bruce Golding. The Gleaner argued they were mere­ly report­ing on what was made pub­lic in the wiki leaks cables that were revealed for pub­lic con­sump­tion. I believe the truth lies some­where in the middle.

The cables revealed infor­ma­tion on goings on in both polit­i­cal par­ties. Understandably the JLP is in Government and as such has more to answer to. In the end it seem of lit­tle impor­tance whether the report­ing was fair, as there is more than ample dirt to be unerthed in both of the two polit­i­cal parties.

Jamaica’s polit­i­cal par­ties have been asso­ci­at­ed with crim­i­nal­i­ty since Independence. Scarce resources have been allo­cat­ed to patrons in all of the com­mu­ni­ties we now refer to as gar­risons, Wilton Gardens, Tavares Gardens, Arnett Gardens, Tivoli Gardens, Thawes Pen McIntyre vil­las, and the list goes on. All of those com­mu­ni­ties were cre­at­ed using ger­ry­man­der­ing, cit­i­zens loy­al to one par­ty were amassed into com­mu­ni­ties depend­ing on their polit­i­cal loy­al­ties , those on the fence forced out or killed. The result, exclu­sive zones with clear lines of demar­ca­tion, the breach­ing of which usu­al­ly result in instant death. It is a well know fact Jamaica’s politi­cians of both par­ties have sup­plied guns ammu­ni­tion and mon­ey to enforcers to main­tain con­trol of these zones of exclusion.

Tax pay­ing Jamaicans have long shoul­dered the bur­den of pay­ing back the monies suc­ces­sive Governments of both par­ties have bor­rowed from every source imag­in­able , only to squan­der those resources on pork bar­rel projects run by their crim­i­nal hench­men. Every young boy grow­ing up in Jamaica must be famil­iar with tales of the glo­ri­fied exploits of crim­i­nals like Burry boy, Claudie Massop, Bya Mitchell, Jim Brown, Chubby dread , a string of oth­ers and the lat­est, and prob­a­bly the most influ­en­tial Christopher (dudus) Coke.

These men did not cre­ate them­selves, despite how we feel about them, they were very much vic­tims of the polit­i­cal Serengeti that was cre­at­ed by Norman Manley and Bustamante, broth­ers against broth­ers if they dared to have dif­fer­ing polit­i­cal views. This trend was con­tin­ued and esca­lat­ed into seri­ous blood­bath with the likes of DK Duncan, Anthony Spalding, Edward Seaga,Ferdie Yap Sam, Carl Thompson, Trevor Munroe, Bruce Golding, Roy McGann, Leslie Lloyd and a long line of others.

The peri­od of the sev­en­ties saw one of the dark­est peri­ods of polit­i­cal trib­al­ism in the his­to­ry of Jamaica, under the stew­ard­ship of the late Michael Manley. This cul­mi­nat­ed with the death of a report­ed 800 peo­ple in the elec­tions held that year between the PNP led by Michael Manley, and the JLP’s Edward Seaga. Manley was uncer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly boot­ed from office tak­ing with him his brand of demo­c­ra­t­ic social­ism, some refer to as a soft form of communism.

The truth is, peo­ple vot­ed for their stom­achs, super­mar­ket shelves had become bare, basic sta­ples were either unavail­able or mar­ried to oth­er goods poor con­sumers did not want and cer­tain­ly could not afford.Richer Jamaicans had long opt­ed for one of the five flights a day Manley ref­ered them to on Air Jamaica. When the final votes were count­ed the PNP were left with 9 seats out of a pos­si­ble 60 in the House of Parliament. Many argue vehe­ment­ly that Seaga and the American cen­tral Intelligence Agency col­lud­ed to desta­bi­lize the Manley régime. True though that may have been, Manley had set a course that was a sure crash and burn for him and the country.

I dust around the edges with a view to giv­ing you a brief syn­op­sis of the rea­son we are where we are. 

When we vis­it the sub­ject of crim­i­nal gangs in Jamaica we see there is hard­ly any dif­fer­ence between those in Parliament and those who run the gar­risons with an iron fist, dis­pens­ing jun­gle jus­tice, han­dling scarce resources, and deliv­er­ing the votes.

That is called main­tain­ing the order.

Events in Tivoli gar­dens last May must have left some peo­ple befud­dled at the behav­ior of the cit­i­zens of that com­mu­ni­ty. After all most of us are law abid­ing peo­ple who call the police when we have a prob­lem, we look to the gov­ern­ment to admin­is­ter to our needs vis a vis deliv­ery of ser­vice, police, edu­ca­tion, health, fire etc these ser­vices we expect because we pay tax­es. We find res­i­dents of Tivoli strange, and even repug­nant, how­ev­er how many of us stop to think that they have nev­er known any oth­er way but the con­densed order under which they live their lives . A coun­try with­in a coun­try. Where every­thing is han­dled with­in a struc­ture , a Governmental struc­ture, one that is bet­ter and more effi­cient than the one we pay tax­es for but nev­er recieves. Is it any won­der that res­i­dents of those com­mu­ni­ty who have nev­er known any oth­er way, fight to main­tain the order they know, and swear on their lives that they would die for the man that main­tained that order?

There are some who are some­how put off when their politi­cians are clas­si­fied as gang­sters. We all know they were the first to intro­duce guns into our polit­i­cal dis­course. We know they are the ones that built, pop­u­lat­ed, and main­tained the zones of polit­i­cal exclu­sions known as Garrisons. We are aware they paid young impres­sion­able young men to steal and stuff bal­lot box­es, intim­i­date vot­ers to vote for them and burn the homes and kill those who do not abide by the order.

We see them on polit­i­cal plat­forms with alleged mur­der­ers, we hear them con­fess to hav­ing done things they were not proud of.( Political speak for issu­ing guns and ammu­ni­tion). If we know that they do these things to main­tain con­trol of con­stituen­cies, irre­spec­tive of the wish­es of the elec­tors with­in those con­stituen­cies, how then can we main­tain they are not gangs?

The answer lies in our post colo­nial men­tal­i­ty. As slaves we looked up to the slave mas­ter, even though he rep­re­sent­ed every­thing that was detri­men­tal to our well being. we admired his hair , col­or, clothes, women, we even believed when he told us we are infe­ri­or to him because of the col­or of our skin . Today our peo­ple are still bleach­ing to look like.…. Well who knows what they are try­ing to look like.

I recall the time P J Patterson was up for ascen­den­cy to the Prime Minister’s job, an elder­ly lady said to me “look pan im wan tun prime min­is­ter, an dont even hav likkle col­or”,. That elder­ly lady’s views rep­re­sent­ed what we are still grap­pling with today.

Black guys wear­ing suits, with huge homes in upper St. Andrew and a lit­tle edu­ca­tion has replaced the wealthy whites that owned all the lands and were the great grand sons of slave hold­ers. Education , drugs, and pol­i­tics have made a small group of reg­u­lar blacks very rich and powerful.

With all of the afore­men­tioned said, if the hap­less Police are to elim­i­nate gangs, how do they pro­pose to do so? The police Chief Owen Ellington ear­li­er demand­ed that his com­man­ders present him with plans to elim­i­nate gangs in their sphere of com­mand in a mat­ter of months.

What Ellington in his naiveté’ demand­ed from those men, most of whom for the most part have no clue how to break up a fight, is tan­ta­mount to giv­ing them bas­kets to emp­ty the Rio Cobre.

Great cops, like Cornwall (Bigga) Ford, tough street cops, who know crim­i­nals, where they hide, and how to rout them, still can­not win this fight.

Despite the exper­tise of peo­ple like Ford and a cou­ple oth­ers, most have no clue how to do this. However that is not the rea­son they can­not win. If Gangs like One Order, Clans man and oth­ers are to be effec­tive­ly erad­i­cat­ed police actions must be pre­ced­ed by leg­isla­tive action. How can we expect effec­tive leg­isla­tive action when the Legislators are them­selves part of the gangs, or are influ­enced by anti police forces in the country?

Unless Gangs are pros­e­cut­ed as an enti­ty, and all of the par­tic­i­pants sent away for life as a unit , there can be no real dent in their activities.

Arresting one mem­ber, whether he is the leader or oth­er­wise, does absolute­ly noth­ing to deter , or stop their activ­i­ties. If any­thing what it does is show the gap­ing hole in politi­cians abil­i­ty to do any­thing mean­ing­ful to stop them, as if they want­ed to.

In most cas­es they are able to car­ry out their roles as lead­ers from behind bars with the help of dirty prison officials.

One of the polit­i­cal par­ties has nev­er seen a piece of pro-police leg­is­la­tion the entire par­ty did not oppose. Claiming it abus­es human rights. After all their entire sup­port seem to come from gar­risons and the most depressed com­mu­ni­ties in the coun­try, essen­tial­ly the peo­ple who drink the cool-aid about their right to receive gov­ern­ment hand­outs. People who put their stock in Government giv­ing them hand-outs can­not achieve their true poten­tial. That suits that par­ty just fine.

So as the blood runs, make no mis­take about the true nature of the pol­i­tics . If they want to stop the blood let­ting they can do so over a peri­od of 2 years. That means putting in place mean­ing­ful leg­is­la­tion that will put crim­i­nals where they belong. no one thing is a panacea , this one how­ev­er, is a damn good place to start. Do not give the peo­ple false hopes about quick police fix­es, that has as much of a chance as a snow-ball in hell of succeeding.

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Jamaica’s Mad Liberal Judges:

We con­tin­ue in the series as titled above here’s a sto­ry from our friends at the Jamaica Observer.

A motorist accused of attempt­ing to kill a police sergeant with his vehi­cle was yes­ter­day remand­ed into cus­tody when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. Accused, Orlando Tucker, a 28-year-old ven­dor of Ambrook Lane in Kingston, was charged with attempt­ed mur­der stem­ming from a traf­fic inci­dent in which the police­man was hos­pi­tal­ized with a frac­ture to his col­lar­bone and mild head injury.

According to police reports, on May 10, about 4:00 pm, Tucker was dri­ving a motor­car along Eastwood Park Road in St Andrew when he was stopped by the police­man for a traf­fic infringement.

But Tucker, while being pros­e­cut­ed, drove off with the com­plainant hang­ing off the side of his vehi­cle. It is fur­ther report­ed that the motorist then drove the car into a light post which result­ed in the com­plainant being flung into the air, before land­ing on the roadway.

The injured man was tak­en to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was admit­ted for sev­er­al days and the accused was arrest­ed and charged.Yesterday, when the mat­ter was raised before Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey, Tucker, who has failed to take up his $200,000 bail, was remand­ed in cus­tody.http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​M​a​n​-​a​c​c​u​s​e​d​-​o​f​-​t​r​y​i​n​g​-​t​o​-​d​r​i​v​e​-​o​v​e​r​-​c​o​p​#​i​x​z​z​1​U​j​g​g​X​Jh0

This less than pre­cise­ly writ­ten sto­ry from our friends at the Jamaica Observer is a lit­tle hard to under­stand but I think we can all see what’s important.

This par­tic­u­lar Magistrate is one of those Jurist oper­at­ing in Jamaica that I talk about dai­ly. Note >this Magistrate has a his­to­ry of bad deci­sions.….….…. if you are not a crim­i­nal. This man attempt­ed to kill a Police Officer in the law­ful exe­cu­tion of his duties. Attempted to escape by run­ning over the cop in his bid to get away from a traf­fic cita­tion. Was offered Bail in the sum of J$200’000.00 The equiv­a­lent of US$2’409 00.

That is what the lives of Police Officers are worth in Jamaica, is it any won­der why offi­cers take the laws into their own hands? this low life is in cus­tody only because he can­not afford to pay the measly bond. If a sus­pect is a flight risk, as is clear­ly demon­strat­ed here, how can a mag­is­trate turn around and grant him bail? Activist mag­is­trate Judith Pusey has been tak­ing a wreck­ing ball unchecked to Jamaica’s jus­tice sys­tem for a long time. 

This is the same mag­is­trate that refused to recuse her­self from the Kern Spencer light bulb tri­al, a move that would have allowed the tri­al to pro­ceed and Justice done. She has set her­self up as the Attorney of Spencer, mak­ing the tri­al a mock­ery, tak­ing over the duties of defense attor­neys for Spencer from the bench. That tri­al is still lan­guish­ing in the sys­tem as Pusey con­tin­ues to fight with the DPP over periph­er­al issues, not allow­ing the case to progress. 

There is a litany of oth­er out­ra­geous cas­es where she has done ter­ri­ble harm to what obtains for jus­tice in Jamaica. Judith Pusey the dar­ling of the tri­al Lawyers has struck again. Notice there is not a peep from the frauds at Jamaicans for Justice,. If Police Officers are killed it’s no big deal, just don’t kill crim­i­nals. What a bunch of frauds.

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JAMAICA’S MAD LIBERAL JUDGES:

As we con­tin­ue to point out the glar­ing bro­ken sys­tem of Justice in Jamaica ‚we have post­ed a list of names of some of the Jamaicans arrest­ed in the Island nation of Barbados. Some of whom have plead guilty for the drug relat­ed offences with which they were charged, and sen­tenced as indi­cat­ed below.

Jurists in Barbados seem to under­stand what their respon­si­bil­i­ties are. Their actions show that they take those respon­si­bil­i­ties seri­ous­ly. The peo­ple of Barbados have through word and deed demon­strat­ed that they want to have a coun­try that is free from crime and ter­ror . Fortunately Barbados Judges are on board with the dic­tates of the peo­ple who pay them.

Below is the full list of the offenders:

1.Lemard Martin, 21, of Lot 9, Ambrook Lane, Kingston 10, Jamaica. He passed 125 pack­ages, weight 1 ½ lbs.Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

2.Sheldon G. Christie, 26, of Orange Hill Post Office, Brown’s Town, St Ann, Jamaica. He passed 52 pack­ages, weight 2lbs.Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

3.Hector Donald White, 46, of #7 Birdsucker Lane, Kingston 8, Jamaica. He passed 52 pack­ages, weight 1 lb.Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

4.Nicardo Odane Gordon, 22, of Aboukir Fullerton Park. Inverness PO., Jamaica. He passed 82 pack­ages, weight 2 lbs.Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

5.Romel A Smith, 28, of Grazettes New Road, St. Michael, Barbados. He passed 215 pack­ages, weight 2 lbs.Pleaded not guilty, to return to court on the Oct 31, 2011. Offered bail.

6.Deshawn George Campbell, 25, of #15 Bromley Ave., Kingston 20, Jamaica. He passed 44 pack­ages, weight 2 ½ lbs.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

7.Casavia Walker, 36, Lot 11, August Town Road, Kingston 7, Jamaica. He passed 82 packages.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

8. Christopher Garrett, 33, of Lot 66 Woodlands, Red Hills, St. Andrew, Jamaica. He passed 12 pack­ages, weight 1 lb.;

Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

9.Gregory Desantos, 20, Fairy Valley, Christ Church, Barbados. He passed 153 pack­ages, weight 1 lb.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute– 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

10.Sonia Frasier, 37, of Flankers District, Montego Bay, Jamaica. She had 1 pack­age insert­ed in her body cav­i­ty and anoth­er con­cealed in her body tights. She arrived on Sunday August 7, 2011 by air.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run con­cur­rent­ly.(jamaica​glean​er​.com)

Conversely I will post for you a rul­ing by a Jamaican Judge in a mat­ter where two women were appre­hend­ed bring­ing 2 and 3 pounds of COCAINE respec­tive­ly into the coun­try , both women plead guilty.

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.

You be the Judge (no pun intended)

We will con­tin­ue to present the facts , you decide ‚whether we are being fair or not.

The ridi­cilous lib­er­al bro­ken sys­tem of jus­tice has wrought untold harm to our coun­try. It is not the only rea­son that our coun­try is in a mess , it is how­ev­er a major con­trib­u­tor to the law­less­ness in the coun­try. In most Jurisdiction sus­pects fac­ing charges of mur­der are not grant­ed bail, not so in Jamaica.

Jamaica is a tri­al lawyer’s par­adise, their lob­by is pow­er­ful and in a small, coun­try where most of the judges are from just around the cor­ner it is not a stretch that their world view would be shaped by their env­iorn­ment, as such we have seen the courts become more and more ridi­cilous­ly liberal.

The University of West Indies which to a large extent edu­cates Jamaica’s Judges has long been a sim­mer­ing coul­dron of far left- wing ide­ol­o­gy, the com­mu­nist work­ers part and oth­er groups have had their birth­place on the mona com­pus of that uni­ver­si­ty. Yours tru­ly was once tarred and feath­ered pre­viewed in the WPJ’s pub­li­ca­tion the (Struggle) as a ter­ror­ist cop. My crimes? Preventing a rag­ing mob of demon­star­tors from ille­gal­ly enter­ing the grounds of Jamaica House .

There is ample evi­dence that mur­der sus­pects locked up by the police are giv­en bail over and over again, . In one case a sus­pect was grant­ed bail 5 times , each time he was bailed he alleged­ly killed the wit­ness­es, abscond­ed ‚was brought back and prompt­ly released to kill again. There are those who argue that bail was not intend­ed to be a punitive.

I argue that the law implic­it­ly states that if the per­son seek­ing bail is a flight risk then he or she should not be giv­en bail. In the case men­tioned above the sus­pect fled the coun­try , and was giv­en bail over and over again.

If the sus­pect seek­ing bail is believed to be a risk to wit­ness­es that sus­pect is not to recieve bail, on numer­ous occa­sions bone- head­ed Jamaican Judges have turned crim­in­las loose , and true to form the wit­ness in the case against them just hap­pen to turn up dead . in some instances killed the night before the case is to be heard.

I do not have a spe­cif­ic num­ber of wit­ness­es and their fam­i­lies that have been slaugh­tered by crim­i­nals that have been giv­en bail , who prompt­ly go out and mur­der wit­ness­es, then turn up for tri­al , upon which they are released for want of pros­e­cu­tion. One such case hap­pened on Hagley Park Road at a bus-stop, morn­ing rush hour, in front of scores of commuters.

Jamaica’s Bar Assoc, is a pow­er­ful voice in the debate of how jus­tice is admin­is­tered. Powerful forces in the so-called human rights fra­ter­ni­ty add to the cho­rus in sup­port of crim­i­nals. When those are looked at in the con­text of the make up of the amount of lawyers in the lead­er­ship of both polit­i­cal par­ties it is not hard to imag­ine why we are in the pick­le we are in.

These forces are privy to the fact that we have a large swath of our pop­u­la­tion that are low infro­ma­tion peo­ple, as such they real­ly do not fear an upris­ing of sort , they con­tin­ue to gam­ble that the major­i­ty of peo­ple who live in the coutry want to live in the cesspool of crime and fear that prevails. 

The big play­ers pret­ty much all have American, Canadian, and British Passports and dual-cit­i­zen­ship. They have no desire to live in the mess they make , they milk all the mon­ey they can from the bro­ken sys­tem, then head for Florida.

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Jamaica The Killing Fields:

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From time to time Jamaicans com­plain about some of the speed lim­its post­ed on cer­tain roads. We all get frus­trat­ed when we can­not zoom to and from where we want to go, and some­times just for the sheer exhil­a­ra­tion and fun, inher­ent in the act of dri­ving. An act that is tru­ly one of the real­ly great plea­sures of life.

If you don’t do it for a liv­ing that is.

July 31st six peo­ple were killed in two sep­a­rate crash­es in Trelawny and St. Mary respec­tive­ly. This morn­ing August 1st a motor­cy­clist and pas­sen­ger were killed in Toll Gate Clarendon.The police are report­ing nei­ther the motor­cy­clist nor the pas­sen­ger were wear­ing pro­tec­tive head-gear. To the best of my knowl­edge there is no law dic­tat­ing manda­to­ry hel­met use for motor­cy­clist and their passengers.

According to Police they are unable to say defin­i­tive­ly what caused the motor cycle crash, they the­o­rized it was speed­ing, the police went on to say no one has come for­ward to say what hap­pened. Word to the police , you guys real­ly are going to have to start look­ing to sci­en­tif­ic meth­ods to explain traf­fic acci­dents with­out any­one com­ing forward.

Long drag marks gen­er­al­ly mean some­one was speed­ing , before a crash,

Short drag gen­er­al­ly mean slow­er rate of speed .

No drag, gen­er­al­ly mean the dri­ver prob­a­bly fell asleep, or was under the influ­ence, real­ly nev­er saw it coming.

An acci­dent is some­thing the dri­ver could not have avoid­ed, and did not cause.

A crash is some­thing that the driver/​s caused out of neg­li­gence or oth­er means.

Example of an acci­dent : a dri­ver oper­at­ing under the rules of the road, is not ine­bri­at­ed by drink, drug, or any oth­er mind alter­ing sub­stance loos­es con­trol due to mois­ture on the road-way, oil, water, snow, and crashes.

A crash is the oppo­site : care­less; reck­less dri­ving, speed­ing, dri­ving under the influ­ence of drink , drugs, or oth­er mind alter­ing sub­stance, or oper­at­ing a vehi­cle in any oth­er way that is in con­tra­ven­tion of the rules of the roads. Police Officers inves­ti­gat­ing crash­es have to be able to make those dis­tinc­tions, this is now a sci­ence and requires the same amount of care and dili­gence that is required in homi­cide and oth­er seri­ous crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions, in some cas­es there needs to be a recon­struc­tion of the accident/​crash site with a view to deter­min­ing the lev­el of crim­i­nal neg­li­gence if any. After all vehic­u­lar manslaugh­ter is a seri­ous offense and should be pun­ished. I implore traf­fic police offi­cers, take your jobs seri­ous­ly, what you do in these inves­ti­ga­tions are sim­i­lar to what crim­i­nal detec­tives do in deter­min­ing crim­i­nal culpability.

For too long peo­ple have been dri­ving with Heineken , and gussi­ness bot­tles between their legs, this is preva­lent amongst those who oper­ate pub­lic pas­sen­ger vehi­cles, as well as pri­vate operators.

Another mind alter­ing drug is the wide­spread use of mar­i­jua­na amongst a wide cross-sec­tion of Jamaicans , it is high time that tests are done on dri­vers at the scene of crash­es to deter­mine whether they are under any influence.

As we all know most crash­es on our roads are not acci­dents , they are crash­es, insti­gat­ed by improp­er use of the road, drink­ing and dri­ving, improp­er over­tak­ing, no sig­nalling, tail­gat­ing, speeding,overloading, and a pletho­ra of road traf­fic infractions.Most crit­ics say well these are not seri­ous crimes , we have more press­ing crimes to attend to. I dis­agree , look at the results of these crashes.

If the car­nage on the roads is to be stopped , the police must first take a no-non­sense approach to speed­ing , a head on col­li­sion with two auto­mo­biles going 40 miles per hour each,crashes at 80 miles an hour, gen­er­al­ly no one walks away from that type of crash with the auto­mo­biles we have today. However this is a tall order as we ask the police to do more , unsup­port­ed by leg­is­la­tion, and a jus­tice sys­tem that is in tat­ters and real­ly does noth­ing to make it clear to scofflaws, that they will be severe­ly penalized.

If the police is to be suc­ces­ful in sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing the car­nage on the roads, they must first purge the dirty cops from with­in their own ranks. Scofflaws must under­stand they will not be able to hand a few bills to cops and con­tin­ue to break the laws, the actions of the police must how­ev­er be sup­port­ed , hand in hand by stiffer tougher penalties.

What we are see­ing play out on our streets is an exten­sion of the deprav­i­ty and out­right law­less­ness that is now the norm , of course there is no vis­i­ble end in sight with the present crop of politi­cians and oth­ers who ben­e­fit from this chaos.

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COP SHOT

A young mem­ber of the intel­li­gence arm of the police force was shot and injured Thursday night .The offi­cer with JUST under two years ser­vice in the JCF sin­gle-hand­ed­ly chal­lenged and killed two gun­men in Portmore, St Catherine, dur­ing a rob­bery attempt.

Allegations are that the rook­ie, who is believed to be in his ear­ly 20s, was stand­ing out­side a gate in Cumberland with friends, when they were held up by two gun­men. The police con­sta­ble was shot in the arm dur­ing the drama.

“We must com­mend his brav­ery, it speaks to the lev­el of his train­ing and con­fi­dence,” head of the Criminal Investigative Branch (CIB), Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell, told The Gleaner yes­ter­day.[cour­tesy dai­ly gleaner]

Another Police Officer was shot and almost killed as per the above report from Jamaica’s Daily Gleaner. Fortunately this young offi­cer sur­vived , despite being shot. As is to be expect­ed there is no word of con­dem­na­tion from those on talk radio.There is no word of con­dem­na­tion to my knowl­edge from Jamaica’s crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty to include the defense attorneys.

Were this valiant young offi­cer not of this cal­i­bre the out­come would most cer­tain­ly be dif­fer­ent for him and his friends.

I urge Jamaicans of all stripes ‚who love free­dom, those who want a safe crime free Jamaica ‚let your voic­es be heard, do not be cowed. I know some­times fear becomes over-pow­er­ing, it some­times seem that the forces of evil can­not be turned around. I do how­ev­er believe that we can make a dif­fer­ence if we let our voic­es be heard.

As is evi­denced by the com­ments under this sto­ry in the Gleaner, you can be heard, when you open your mouths, the sup­port­ers of evil remain silent . As Jamaicans we were a respect­ed peo­ple around the world, we are respect­ed for our abil­i­ties in sports , music, the arts, education,hospitality,and our con­vic­tion in speak­ing truth to pow­er. Our Nation has done so on many occa­sions. Whether its apartheid, race rela­tions in America, pover­ty in the world , or what­ev­er the issue of the day is, we have been in the fore­front of the defense of what is right.

We can return to our glo­ry days of respect in the world , but we must first decide to return to the rule of law, we must return to putting the inter­est of the inno­cent first and putting crim­i­nals where they belong , so that our coun­try can be free, and our peo­ple live out their God-giv­en poten­tial. The great­est right of any per­son is their right to life.

Get well Officer.

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WE HAVE TRIED IT THEIR WAY:

Both Jamaican dai­ly’s car­ried the sto­ry of the Prime Minister sug­gest­ing that the mon­sters that are respon­si­ble for the series of grue­some decap­i­ta­tion should face the death penalty.

The prime min­is­ter said he is pre­pared for the debate that will fol­low his sug­ges­tions. Mister Prime min­is­ter , don’t you real­ly mean the howls of con­dem­na­tion that is sure to come. guar­an­teed the lib­er­al crim­i­nal cod­dling forces with­in Jamaica’s media, cler­gy Intelligentsia, legal fra­ter­ni­ty, and the crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty will be up in arms…hold it hold it ..you can hold your breadth they will be com­ing at you..

Lets take a look at the death penal­ty : The debate sur­round­ing the death penal­ty will nev­er be set­tled , the pros and cons are pret­ty dug in on this sub­ject. I must con­fess that although I lean toward the death penal­ty being enforced . I have strong reser­va­tions about the prospect of an inno­cent per­son being put to death, that scares the liv­ing day­lights out of me, and places me square­ly on the fence on this issue.

Over the years there have been cas­es in the United States , where seri­ous doubts have been raised about an exe­cut­ed per­son­’s guilt. in States like South Carolina and Texas that does have the death penal­ty. In most cas­es activists point to the dis­pro­por­tion­ate exe­cu­tion of blacks and Latinos over whites that com­mit the same crimes, those have been argu­ments made for gen­er­a­tions , they make up a part of America’s his­to­ry and maybe her shame. In Jamaica the script is almost the same except the argu­ment is not one of racism , but class ‑ism.

Jamaica ‘s colo­nial past , and the Genesis of the con­stab­u­lary gives life to this argu­ment that poor­er peo­ple are treat­ed dif­fer­ent­ly by the Police. Much the same way Americas racist Jim crow past, lends cred­i­bil­i­ty to the argu­ments assigned to that country.

Prosecutors and law enforce­ment offi­cials argue that they arrest and pros­e­cute fair­ly, irre­spec­tive of class or race. Those assur­ances have done noth­ing to allay the fears of those opposed to cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. My per­son­al feel­ings are guid­ed by what was taught to me at the Jamaica police acad­e­my in 1982.” It is bet­ter for the guilty to go free, than for an inno­cent per­son to be con­vict­ed . I have to how­ev­er bal­ance that with some­thing else I was taught at the same insti­tu­tion.” There can be no greater respon­si­bil­i­ty placed on any per­son, than that which requires you to bring the killer of anoth­er human being to justice.

Opponents of the death penal­ty argue that it is not a deterrent.

As a qua­si sup­port­er of the death penal­ty I ask how do you know?

As a child grow­ing up in the sev­en­ties I am acute­ly aware of the dread that was placed on my heart when I heard the word [Wanda ] Mister Wanda was the Hangman in Spanish Town​.As I recall , there was way less crime at that time, and cer­tain­ly the grue­some nature of what we are wit­ness­ing at this time was def­i­nite­ly not there.

The depraved indif­fer­ence, inher­ent in the crimes being com­mit­ted, seem to sug­gest to me a lay per­son ‚that the per­pe­tra­tors do not have any fear of being caught. Reports indi­cate that in some cas­es groups of 30 – 40 heav­i­ly armed men are involved in car­ry­ing out these atroc­i­ties. The sheer num­bers, if true , not to men­tion the weapon­ry involved , sug­gest they fear no one, and are pre­pared to take on all comers.

If a Police patrol that includes two offi­cers come upon these mili­tia mem­bers decap­i­tat­ing some­one ‚what chance do they have, except to try to save their own lives? As I have argued before, this is a mil­i­tary prob­lem, that requires a mil­i­tary solu­tion. The prob­lem in Tivoli Gardens was a mil­i­tary prob­lem that required a mil­i­tary solu­tion, that was effect­ed and now the com­mu­ni­ty of Tivoli gar­dens is open for police services.

What both­ers me is how in the name of God ‚could any­one in their right mind sit on their ass­es and talk about rights in the face of these goings on.

Agitators like Carolyn Gomes of Jamaicans for jus­tice ‚some pas­tors, those in the media who sit on their fat ass­es in radio stu­dios , and a pletho­ra of oth­er bleed­ing heart lib­er­al crim­i­nal sup­port­ing frauds, are quick to con­demn the police for doing what they are sworn to do, erad­i­cate the scourge from among us. Unfortunately some with­in the police force have com­pro­mised their posi­tion , allow­ing crim­i­nals to point to them as the enemy.

According to the prime min­is­ter, Parliament vot­ed more than a year ago to retain the death penal­ty, and the Government will uphold the law.
The Parliament has also passed laws, lim­it­ing the peri­od in which a con­vict on death row must com­plete all his appeals.
With that amend­ment, a con­vict will not be allowed to stretch out the appeals peri­od beyond five years when his exe­cu­tion would no longer be pos­si­ble based on the Pratt and Morgan ruling.
In the Pratt and Morgan case, the UK-based Privy Council held that it was inhu­mane to have a con­vict on death row for more than five years.
As a con­se­quence, con­victs on death row for more than five years would have their sen­tences com­mut­ed to life in prison. ( source: Jamaica gleaner)

Question to the Prime min­is­ter:Why did you not uphold the laws as you swore to do? Let me haz­ard a guess ! you refused to hon­or your com­mit­ment to the Constitution because you are behold­en to Amnesty International and their sur­ro­gates in Jamaica, Jamaicans for Justice.

Amnesty International which is based in London, with offices scat­tered over the world, cer­tain­ly does not get to tell the British Government how to secure that country.British cities are stitched togeth­er with secu­ri­ty cam­eras on every corner,more than any oth­er coun­try in the world,Arguable a civ­il rights vio­la­tion, British cit­i­zens are watched 24 – 7 year round 365. British Authorities do not tol­er­ate crim­i­nal­i­ty in their coun­try, Jamaica is as we speak , try­ing to cope with the avalanche of depor­tees being sent back to Jamaica. Conversely, as a cost sav­ing mea­sure the British Government is will­ing to pay pris­on­ers of Jamaican Nationality to go back home before their peri­od of incar­cer­a­tion is even over .

That amounts to a sim­ple fact we do not want you here. Prime Minister Golding ‚you dithered on this impor­tant issue, as you have on oth­ers. If you are a leader you must chart a course and fol­low that course.Many will hate you, even as they ben­e­fit from your hard deci­sions, great lead­ers have been known to make unpop­u­lar deci­sions and have his­to­ry vin­di­cate them. You have failed to asso­ciate your­self with that greatness.Greatness that could have been attrib­uted to lead­ers like Hugh Lawson Shearer.

As you have dithered on the Christopher Coke issue , you reduced your­self to a mere spec­ta­tor, you could have seized the moment , make the tough deci­sions , live and die with your deci­sions. Unfortunately you allowed your­self to for­ev­er to be seen as a pro­tec­tor of a man, accused of seri­ous crimes. Those who despise you will nev­er love you, you have almost a year to be deci­sive with this mon­ster of ter­ror­ism, put earplugs in , tune out the idiots, save Jamaica. Or for­ev­er be a flash in the pan ‚a sad mis­take in Jamaica’s history.

Jamaicans liv­ing over­seas and at home have long demand­ed that their Government car­ry out their sworn oblig­a­tions to the con­sti­tu­tion and hang those whom the courts say should be hanged, What I find strange is that, Jamaica has one of the most lib­er­al jus­tice sys­tem any­where on the globe, yet on the rare occa­sion they are spurred into order­ing some­one exe­cut­ed , the Executive branch of Government refus­es to car­ry out their sworn duties.

The last exe­cu­tion in Jamaica was car­ried out on 18 February 1988. There were more than a 190 pris­on­ers under sen­tence of death at the end of 1988. Currently there are nine pris­on­ers on death row. The reduc­tion is prin­ci­pal­ly attrib­ut­able to three events. In 1992 the Jamaican Parliament amend­ed the Offences Against the Person Act to clas­si­fy some mur­ders as non-capital.The amend­ment applied retroac­tive­ly and result­ed in the com­mu­ta­tion of sen­tences to life impris­on­ment of a num­ber peo­ple who had been pre­vi­ous­ly manda­to­ri­ly sen­tenced to death. In 1993 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (cur­rent­ly Jamaica’s high­est court which sits in England) decid­ed, in the case of Pratt and Morgan v. the Attorney General of Jamaica, that exe­cut­ing a per­son who has spent a pro­longed peri­od on death row vio­lates Section 17 of the Constitution of Jamaica, which pro­hibits “inhu­man or degrad­ing pun­ish­ment or oth­er treat­ment.(source;amnesty inter­na­tion­al)

What this means is that the Government of the peo­ple’s nation­al par­ty, through­out its entire unprece­dent­ed 181⁄2 years in office, refused to hon­or their oblig­a­tions as guardians of the con­sti­tu­tion. when looked at in tan­dem with the fact that they allowed the secu­ri­ty forces to fall into seri­ous decay,not one detec­tive trained in ten years , it is clear to see where the prob­lem emanat­ed from. Populism, pan­der­ing, and the desire to hold pow­er ‚irre­spec­tive of con­se­quence to coun­try, has brought us to the brink of anarchy.

In 2008 when Jamaica’s Parliament was get­ting ready to vote on the issue of the death penal­ty , Amnesty International had this to say.

As Jamaican Parliamentarians are due to vote short­ly on a motion on whether to retain the death penal­ty, Amnesty International calls on the Jamaican author­i­ties to reject the death penal­ty and instead pri­or­i­tize reforms to the police and jus­tice sys­tem in order to tack­le the coun­try’s vio­lent crime epidemic.

The vote has emerged in the light of dis­cus­sion around the new Charter of Rights and Freedoms Bill, which seeks to replace Chapter III of the Jamaican Constitution ded­i­cat­ed to the pro­tec­tion of fun­da­men­tal rights and free­dom of per­sons. The pur­pose of the vote is to decide whether pro­vi­sions cre­at­ing the death sen­tence excep­tions to the right to life and to pro­tec­tion from tor­ture or inhu­man or degrad­ing pun­ish­ment or oth­er treat­ment, should be retained or delet­ed from the Charter. This vote also comes at a time of spi­ralling vio­lent crime in a coun­try with one of the high­est per capi­ta mur­der rates in the world.

Amnesty International under­stands that high lev­els of crim­i­nal­i­ty cre­ate vic­tim after vic­tim and wel­comes the Jamaican government’s com­mit­ment to address­ing vio­lent crime. However, the orga­ni­za­tion strong­ly believes that the use of the death penal­ty, as well as con­sti­tut­ing a cru­el, inhu­man and degrad­ing pun­ish­ment, is not an effec­tive method of pre­vent­ing crime.

Given the unlike­li­hood of ever being brought before the courts, it is high­ly implau­si­ble that before com­mit­ting a crime a crim­i­nal would con­sid­er the risk of being hung and would refrain from wrong-doing. On the con­trary, the reten­tion of the death penal­ty spreads across the soci­ety the mes­sage that killing is per­mit­ted. The death penal­ty also runs the risk of irrev­o­ca­ble error. Country after coun­try, includ­ing Jamaica, has inflict­ed the death penal­ty upon those inno­cent of the crime for which they were con­demned. Numerous stud­ies have also shown that it tends to be applied dis­crim­i­na­to­ri­ly on grounds of race and class. In a coun­try like Jamaica, where the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem is deeply flawed and cor­rup­tion is rife through­out dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions, how can the pub­lic have con­fi­dence that the state will not kill inno­cent people?

Amnesty International believes that the true solu­tion to the appalling crime sit­u­a­tion does not lie with the death penal­ty. The answers can be found instead by pri­or­i­tiz­ing reforms to the police and jus­tice sys­tem that are already under way. These include imple­ment­ing rec­om­men­da­tions from the strate­gic review of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Justice Sector Reform Review and expe­dit­ing the pas­sage of leg­is­la­tion to estab­lish an inde­pen­dent com­mis­sion to inves­ti­gate police abus­es and an Office of Coroner to exam­ine alleged police kills.(source:amnesty inter­na­tion­al )

Jamaicans and peo­ple all over the world . What this lib­er­al left-wing group is say­ing is don’t both­er about the mur­der­ers, don’t both­er about the mer­ci­less killers,the orga­ni­za­tion strong­ly believes that the use of the death penal­ty, con­sti­tutes cru­el, inhu­man and degrad­ing pun­ish­ment, and is not an effec­tive method of pre­vent­ing crime.

Well we have tried it their way, since the 1980’s not one per­son has been made to pay for their crimes of mur­der. This state­ment was issued by that agency on the 21st of Nov: 2008 ‚their way .Since then thou­sands of Jamaicans have ben slaugh­tered , to include Police Officers and mem­bers of Jamaica’s military.

We have tried it their way .

Now let’s do it our way.

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Enough With The Support For Criminals:

On May 10th the Spanish Town Police Station came under attack from ter­ror ele­ments with­in the soci­ety. This was not the first time that we have seen this occur­rence, con­verse­ly this has become a trend , as it is in Mexico, and oth­er near and failed states .As a mat­ter of fact there is not even the bat­ting of an eye when Police Stations are attacked and burned to the ground in Jamaica, these are the fruits of the seeds sown over three decades ‚when some in the media told peo­ple to throw stones on Police Stations to sat­is­fy their dis­con­tent. The stone throw­ers have grad­u­at­ed to AK-47 Rifles.

The Police report­ed that the Klansman Criminal Enterprise is rak­ing in just under half a Billion Dollars annu­al­ly. Through extor­tion and Murder for hire, this esti­mate may be under­stat­ed, con­sid­er­ing the stran­gle hold this ter­ror Organization has on the Parish of St Catherine and Clarendon.

As is evi­denced they have no respect for the rule of law and are hell-bent that if the Police dare chal­lenge them they are pre­pared to declare war on the secu­ri­ty Services.This Gang is affil­i­at­ed with the Opposition People’s National Party . The oppo­si­tion Party in Jamaica that have been notice­able absent from the defense of the Jamaican peo­ple, when­ev­er they are required to stand with Jamaica and those who defend her. The have time and again cho­sen polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy, pop­ulism and cheap pan­der­ing to the base instincts of the poor­er class.

That act of betray­al was just one in a long line orches­trat­ed by the PNP .On Friday the 22nd of July 2011 the People’s National Party mem­bers in the Senate vot­ed en mass, with the bless­ings of its nation­al exec­u­tive coun­cil , against the Government’s renew­al of the Constabulary Force (Interim Provisions for Arrest and Detention) Act, 2010. a

The Government, on Friday, used its major­i­ty in the Senate to give law-enforce­ment offi­cials the right to con­tin­ue detain­ing crim­i­nal sus­pects for up to 72 hours with­out charge The par­ty notes that the con­sti­tu­tion­al court, in its land­mark deci­sion hand­ed down on July 15, 2011 in the Nation and Wrightcase, has stat­ed that 24 hours was Parliament’s indi­ca­tion of the peri­od which does not vio­late the require­ment, in the for­mer chap­ter III of the Constitution, for a detained per­son to be brought before the court with­out delay,” said a release from the PNP.The par­ty said the equiv­a­lent pro­vi­sion in the Constitution’s new Charter of Rights requires detained per­sons to be brought before the court forth­with, or as soon as is rea­son­ably prac​ti​ca​ble​.In light of the rea­son­ing of the court in the Nation and Wright case, the par­ty con­sid­ers it like­ly that the pow­er for deten­tion for up to 72 hours with­out con­sid­er­a­tion of bail is incom­pat­i­ble with the Charter of Rights, and can­not with­stand judi­cial scrutiny.Meanwhile, National Security Minister Senator Dwight Nelson, who is also the leader of gov­ern­ment busi­ness in the Upper House, jus­ti­fied the leg­is­la­tion as he argued that the secu­ri­ty forces must be empow­ered with the sup­port of the law to help reduce the scourge of criminality.Making ref­er­ence to the behead­ing of three peo­ple in two inci­dents in Lauriston, St Catherine, Nelson told the Upper House last Friday that the exten­sion of the inter­im pro­vi­sion was warranted.According to Nelson, it is a key piece of leg­isla­tive pro­vi­sion that has strength­ened the crime fight­ing capa­bil­i­ties of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and its auxiliaries.While point­ing to the reduc­tion of mur­ders, since the start of this year, Nelson said over the one-year peri­od when the law was in effect, the police arrest­ed more persons.He not­ed a sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tion in mur­ders in the five his­tor­i­cal­ly trou­bled police divi­sions, and said the leg­is­la­tion had a direct impact on this development.Nelson crit­i­cised the Opposition, which on Tuesday, dur­ing the sit­ting of the House of Representatives, reject­ed the motion to extend the crime measure.Opposition Spokesman on National Security Peter Bunting said the leg­is­la­tion was not the rea­son for the reduc­tion in crime.The Opposition has also ques­tioned the legal­i­ty of the legislation.But Nelson said the deten­tion of a sus­pect with­out charge for up to 72 hours is con­sti­tu­tion­al, based on the advice of the attor­ney gen­er­al, who received advice from the solic­i­tor general.He cried shame on those who did not sup­port the exten­sion, say­ing it was tan­ta­mount to not sup­port­ing the secu­ri­ty offi­cials, many of whom “paid the ulti­mate price,” in crime fight­ing.(Jamaica glean­er July 26th 2011)

This leads us to ask some per­ti­nent questions.(1) why is the PNP silent on the behead­ings being car­ried out by its affil­i­ate The klans man gang oper­at­ing out of St. Catherine and Clarendon.?(2) The PNP must state pub­licly why it choos­es to sup­port ter­ror­ists over law enforce­ment offi­cers and the rule of law. (3) Of the esti­mat­ed half a bil­lion dol­lars the gang rakes in from its ille­gal activ­i­ties , what per­cent­age if any, goes into fund­ing can­di­dates for the PNP’s elec­toral machinery.

The PNP argued that Jamaica’s secu­ri­ty forces, who sac­ri­fice at the per­il of their lives could poten­tial­ly abuse cit­i­zens rights if they were allowed a lit­tle more time ‚to solid­i­fy the gains they made after rout­ing Christopher Coke’s mili­tia from his Tivoli redoubt. Jamaica’s peo­ple’s nation­al par­ty refused to sup­port the work of the coun­try’s hard-work­ing men and women in uni­form ‚en mass as a par­ty, by default throw­ing its sup­port behind Jamaica’s ter­ror­ists net­works. That action to my mind was the great­est act of betray­al and un Jamaican activ­i­ty I have ever seen in my lifetime.

This must be a les­son to the Officers that pro­vide secu­ri­ty to mem­bers of the PNP in what­ev­er capac­i­ty. Understand this, they do not care about you , they do not care if you live or die,.They care more about the maraud­ing despots ram­pag­ing through­out the parish­es of Clarendon and St Catherine behead­ing peo­ple. You must do your duty as a Police Officer and noth­ing more , and remem­ber self-preser­va­tion ought to be para­mount to you. The peo­ple for whom you risk your lives, do not respect you enough to vote to give you a leg up on the mon­sters that seek to destroy you. I know some of you are easy and licky licky, I implore you not to allow your bel­lies to dic­tate where com­mon sense ought to lead, most of you are at least bright enough to get the job , use your intel­lect to fig­ure out what’s going on .This Party is a crim­i­nal sup­port­ing par­ty , as police offi­cers you must under­stand what is hap­pen­ing around you ‚.It is called local knowl­edge. The inci­dents of the pnp ‘s sup­port for anar­chy are well doc­u­ment­ed , I per­son­al­ly have no vendet­ta against them I am a patri­ot , and as a patri­ot I must stand against those whose actions are reck­less, and destruc­tive against Jamaica.

I sup­port nei­ther par­ty , I sup­port the rule of law and those tasked with enforce­ment of said laws, I will not flinch to seek to edu­cate peo­ple on the lies and dis­tor­tions that are being per­pet­u­at­ed on their behalf by those they trust and elect to pro­tect them.a Government’s first respon­si­bil­i­ty to its’ peo­ple, is to pro­tect them. That begins with the fun­da­men­tal and uni­ver­sal right to life, There is no need for civ­il rights if you are dead.The ter­ror tac­tics of Jamaica’s under­world. The same klans man gang has start­ed what appear to any trained intel­li­gent per­son, to be a com­mu­ni­cat­ed trend .This trend is the grue­some act of decap­i­tat­ing their vic­tims. As I have stat­ed in anoth­er post, the rea­son could be three-fold.(1) To dri­ve fear,(2) to send a mes­sage, or (3) they are run­ning low on bullets.

Here is more proof of the won­der­ful work Jamaican Law mak­ers are doing fur­ther pro­tect­ing the rights of criminals.The Charter of Rights, unan­i­mous­ly passed in Parliament recent­ly, states that: Any per­son who is arrest­ed or detained shall be enti­tled to be tried with­in a rea­son­able time and (a) shall be (i) brought forth­with or as soon as is rea­son­ably prac­ti­ca­ble before an offi­cer autho­rised by law, or a court; and (ii) released either uncon­di­tion­al­ly or upon rea­son­able con­di­tions to secure his atten­dance at the tri­al or at any oth­er stage of the pro­ceed­ings; or (b) if he is not released as men­tioned in para­graph (a)(ii), shall be prompt­ly brought before a court which may there­upon release him.(Jamaica glean­er)(Daily Gleaner July 26 ) THE GAVEL :cap­tioned :unfair and unjust.In the quest to appre­hend and pun­ish crim­i­nals, the State ought not to legit­imise breach­ing the con­sti­tu­tion. We have always felt and we remain even more con­vinced that leg­is­la­tion such as the one renewed in Parliament last week, is counter-pro­duc­tive and will result in noth­ing more than the abuse of human rights by the police.(Jamaica dai­ly gleaner).

I am inform­ing the world that 20 per­sons have been mur­dered in Jamaica since the start of this week.

Some of them decap­i­tat­ed. While the entire lead­er­ship of this once beau­ti­ful coun­try ‚to include the entire oppo­si­tion par­ty, speak­er of the house, pub­lic defend­er NGO’s that receive mon­ey from abroad, the lazy unpro­fes­sion­al media , church, all band togeth­er to make sure the rights of crim­i­nals are not vio​lat​ed​.It is about time that the world is made aware that the entire cam­paign of’ (Jamaica no prob­lem ) is a fraud­u­lent façade , con­ceal­ing a dirty under­bel­ly of crim­i­nal­i­ty that per­me­ates the entire fault line of the Jamaican society.Visitors must under­stand they are not safe , the Police are hin­dered from doing their jobs, the rule of law in Jamaica is a myth. Jamaica is ruled by pen­ny oli­garchs who col­lec­tive­ly main­tain the sta­tus quo through a uni­fied and com­pre­hen­sive sup­pres­sion of police actions , uti­liz­ing all organs avail­able ‚to demo­nize the secu­ri­ty forces. They active­ly encour­age out­side agi­ta­tors to come into Jamaica to look for what they char­ac­ter­ize as police excesses.

Many pow­er­ful fam­i­lies with­in the coun­try are involved in seri­ous crim­i­nal activ­i­ties. They are untouch­ables ‚as is evi­denced by Christopher Coke’s pow­er, con­nec­tions, and clout , the author­i­ties did noth­ing to put a stop to his crim­i­nal empire.There are many more like him oper­at­ing under the radar , and noth­ing is being done about them. It took the brave actions of a police offi­cer ‚work­ing in tan­dem with the Americans ‚and for­mer min­is­ter of nation­al secu­ri­ty Peter Phillips, to put a stop to Coke’s pres­i­den­cy. Phillips bucked the sys­tem and signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing with the Americans that allowed for crim­i­nals phones to be tapped .Phillips did not have the con­fi­dence in his par­ty ‚which was the par­ty in gov­ern­ment at the time, so he kept them in the dark.Not even the Prime Minister at the time, Portia Simpson Miller was in the loop about the memorandums.

This sup­ports my argu­ment about crim­i­nal sup­port by the People’s National Party​.It speaks vol­umes about Peter Phillips con­fi­dence in his Prime min­is­ter. The cab­i­net and the mem­bers of his own par­ty to sup­port the rule of law. Or worse, not to inform their crim­i­nal affil­i­ates that they were poten­tial­ly being lis­tened to by the Americans.

Christopher Coke did not rise to promi­nence under the JLP. The People’s National Party has approx­i­mate­ly six gar­risons for every one that is aligned to the Jamaica labor Party​.It was, and still is, no mys­tery why the People’s National Party can­not sup­port the police in their actions to uphold the laws. As I have stat­ed, a large part of the Jamaican pop­u­la­tion ben­e­fits in some way from crim­i­nal­i­ty, a recent cor­rup­tion assess­ment places Jamaica 87 on the cor­rup­tion index for 2010, up from 84 the pre­vi­ous year. But not a posi­tion we should be proud of .In the 2009 Corruption Perception Index Jamaica was ranked 99 out of 180 coun­tries, a dete­ri­o­ra­tion from the rat­ing in the pre­vi­ous year when the coun­try placed 84.

At every turn along the way we see the mem­bers of the Peoples’ National Party sid­ing with whomev­er has a grouse with the rule of law, This is unprece­dent­ed , even in Iraq and Afghanistan Politicians of all stripes argue for the rule of law, and give their sup­port to those tasked with uphold­ing it.

Jamaica’s Politicians are a unique bunch. This par­tic­u­lar trait of not giv­ing sup­port to the agen­cies of law enforce­ment, is not con­fined to the PNP but for all intents and pur­pos­es becomes ampli­fied based on their actions.

One would rea­son­ably con­clude that after being in Opposition they would get. One would assume they would have a clue. That no coun­try can progress or pros­per with­out the rule of law, estab­lished, and adhered to. Here’s Portia Simpson Miller in response to queries from an inter­view­er on (TVJ smile Jamaica june 3rd 2011) what would you do as a mat­ter of pri­or­i­ty if you are elect­ed Prime Minister of Jamaica , what would you address as a pri­or­i­ty”? Simpson miller :I have sev­er­al pri­or­i­ties and hence the pro­gres­sive agen­da, that lays down the var­i­ous areas of concentration,certainly the growth and devel­ope­ment of the country,economic growth and developement,education , jobs,.….…

Interviewer jump­ing in , with a view to help­ing her focus, But those are kin­da broad, but what would you do to fix what you under­stand is a bro­ken econ­o­my.? There are a num­ber of areas that we … we can look on that will be able to cre­ate jobs , we look at what you men­tioned ear­li­er agri­cul­ture and the val­ue added, you notice every year it’s now man­go time, we eat what we can and the rest just fall on the ground and rot, .veg­eta­bles now when you see the farm­ers loos­ing their crops because they have no market,how is it we can get fac­to­ries into a num­ber of the parish­es, that will process all of these things , and so that we can con­sume what we can and then oth­ers the rest of the world will share with us ‚and I think agri­cul­ture is one in terms of agri­cul­ture and the val­ue added.And I think urban and rur­al devel­ope­ment will also be a focus apart from look­ing at the whole ques­tion of ener­gy , because I think that is crit­i­cal in the coun­try at this time, and look­ing at all the oth­er areas cer­tain­ly busi­ness­es, aahm small medi­um size , while not ignor­ing the big busi­ness­es, and con­tin­ue to give them sup­port, well we need to look at all those areas that will allow the econ­o­my to grow. We need to look seri­ous­ly at the devel­ope­ment and planned devel­ope­ment of Jamaica , both rur­al and urban, we tend to look at the towns and the cities and we ignore the rur­al areas,and the deep rur­al areas , and I think that’s why we have the migra­tion into .…so there are a num­ber of areas that are well doc­u­ment­ed in the pro­gres­sive agen­da , and there are a num­ber of per­sons that are look­ing at it and they are giv­ing us some crit­i­cal feed­back and sug­ges­tions that we are tak­ing on board so we can have the launch, and then to have wider con­sul­ta­tions , broad­er con­sul­ta­tions , and all of that.

Whew !!!!

Simpson Miller then jok­ing­ly chid­ed the mod­er­a­tor for giv­ing her too short a time.

Absent from the whole dis­joint­ed tor­tured ram­ble, was an under­stand­ing of what is the para­mount imped­i­ment to Jamaica’s eco­nom­ic prob­lems. crime and vio­lence has sti­fled and stunt­ed growth over the last four decades with the peri­od of the eight­ies being a respite in between​.How can some­one gear­ing up to once again take the reins of lead­er­ship of a coun­try , who does­n’t even under­stand the com­plex issues of the day, be expect­ed to come up with, and exe­cute a plan to address them?

The seri­ous and urgent issue of Jamaica’s ever esca­lat­ing crime prob­lem, did not even make the list of her pri­or­i­ties. During that whole inar­tic­u­late, inco­her­ent ram­ble, not one men­tion was made about the seri­ous issue of crime.If you can’t see it, how can you fix it.?

Our Country’s secu­ri­ty can no longer be a Political foot­ball, to be kicked around by the two polit­i­cal par­ties , for their own gain. It is now time for both to come togeth­er, and not only denounce ter­ror­ism and crime, but through the leg­isla­tive process make it bad busi­ness to be involved in the Crime business.

There is no short­age of big mon­ey Lawyers , who demand that ter­ror­ists tak­en off the streets , be charged or prompt­ly released. This leads to the con­clu­sion that there are peo­ple in high posi­tions that have no inter­est in see­ing the entrails of this mon­ster evis­cer­at­ed. I sug­gest that a sim­i­lar statute to the American Rico Statute be enact­ed that will effec­tive­ly remove this scourge,The time as come for those who iden­ti­fy with, are asso­ci­at­ed with, and are a part of Gangs, to be so linked and removed from society.This must be done despite the pre­dictable howls from Defense Lawyers , and crim­i­nal sup­port­ing groups like Jamaicans fo jus­tice ‚when crim­i­nals are removed from the streets. There are more than enough spe­cial inter­est groups with­in Jamaica that advo­cates for Criminals and their way of Life, I would like to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to advo­cate for Jamaica and Jamaicans who want a decent law-abid­ing way of life.

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WHAT IS THE STRATEGY FOR SMASHING JAMAICA’S CRIMINAL GANGS ?

Police personnel at the Denham Town Police Station hold hands in prayer after their colleague, Constable Lynden Barrett, was shot and killed in West Kingston.
Police per­son­nel at the Denham Town Police Station hold hands in prayer after their col­league, Constable Lynden Barrett, was shot and killed in West Kingston.

At the start of this year Police Commissioner Owen Ellington declared to the Country that he would be demand­ing from Divisional Commanders their strat­e­gy to com­plete­ly dis­man­tle Jamaica’s Criminal Gangs.The Police argue that there are sev­er­al dozen Criminal Gangs oper­at­ing across the Island.Some Non Governmental Organizations dis­pute those claims, argu­ing that some of the group­ings of peo­ple the Police call gangs are just guys hang­ing out on the corners.

Horace Levy has been a senior lec­tur­er and research fel­low at the University of the West Indies since 1998. His 2009 mono­graph Killing Streets and Community Revival is based both on his research and his active involve­ment since 2002 in the Peace Management Initiative. (AAP Home > Department of City & Regional Planning).The argu­ments made by mis­ter Levy is based on his asso­ci­a­tion with the orga­ni­za­tion he helps to lead, the PMI.

Having spent a decade polic­ing the inner cities and gar­risons of Jamaica ‚I must say with all due respect to Mister Levy and the PMI, despite the valu­able work they do, I am more inclined to go with the assess­ment of the Police.The work of the PMI though invalu­able, is dif­fer­ent from the role of the police . Operatives of the PMI are seen in these com­mu­ni­ties in a dif­fer­ent light than the way the police is viewed.

Arguing that guys on the cor­ner who behave in a civ­il way around PMI oper­a­tives are some­how divorced from turf-defense, extor­tion, and the com­mis­sion of oth­er crimes, shows a lack of under­stand­ing of how crim­i­nals oper­ate. It’s naïveté, or much worse. That argu­ment is sim­i­lar to that of par­ents whom have done their best to raise a child, would swear on the Bible that the child nev­er indulges in bad behav­ior, until that child is con­vict­ed of crim­i­nal wrong doing. We can do our best to raise our kids but we should nev­er swear on their honesty.

Back to com­mis­sion­er Ellington:

On hear­ing the announce­ment from the Commissioner my imme­di­ate incli­na­tion was to won­der how many Commanders had train­ing or under­stand­ing how to exe­cute the man­date giv­en by their boss? I am not say­ing that the Commanders, some of whom are sea­soned street cops can­not effec­tive­ly erad­i­cate the gangs with­in their sphere of com­mand. What I do know as a mat­ter of fact is that some of them have no clue, no will, and oth­ers are timid lead­ers who had great­ness thrust upon them. If we are to erad­i­cate the mon­ster of gang vio­lence there must be effec­tive leg­is­la­tion that pre­cedes the police effort. The police com­mis­sion­er , well-inten­tioned though he is, is ask­ing his com­man­ders to do some­thing that can­not be achieved under the present sys­tem. If the Authorities are seri­ous the thing to do is look over­seas at mod­els which work. A good place to start is the American Rico Statute. RICO, is a United States fed­er­al law that pro­vides for extend­ed crim­i­nal penal­ties and a civ­il cause of action for acts per­formed as part of an ongo­ing crim­i­nal orga­ni­za­tion.

In 1970, Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1961 – 1968. At the time, Congress’ goal was to elim­i­nate the ill-affects of orga­nized crime on the nation’s econ­o­my. To put it blunt­ly, RICO was intend­ed to destroy the Mafia,it is applied to indi­vid­u­als, busi­ness­es, polit­i­cal protest groups, and ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions. In short, a RICO claim can arise in almost any con­text. source(RicoAct.com llc)RICO address­es long-term, not one-shot, crim­i­nal activ­i­ty. Not only must a RICO claim be based upon crim­i­nal activ­i­ty, but the crim­i­nal acts must con­sti­tute a “pat­tern” of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty. A sin­gle crim­i­nal act, short-term crim­i­nal con­duct, or crim­i­nal actions that bear no rela­tion­ship to each oth­er will not give rise to a RICO claim. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that crim­i­nal actions con­sti­tute a “pat­tern” only if they are relat­ed and con­tin­u­ous. In order to be “relat­ed,” the crim­i­nal acts must involve the same vic­tims, have the same meth­ods of com­mis­sion, involve the same par­tic­i­pants, or be relat­ed in some oth­er fash­ion. A pat­tern may be suf­fi­cient­ly con­tin­u­ous if the crim­i­nal actions occurred over a sub­stan­tial peri­od of time or posed a threat of indef­i­nite dura­tion. The for­mer pat­terns are referred to as closed-end­ed pat­terns; the lat­ter pat­terns are referred to as open-end­ed pat­terns. Accordingly, even if you have been injured by a crim­i­nal act, you will not have a RICO claim unless that crim­i­nal act is part of a larg­er pat­tern of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty.source(RicoAct.com llc).

The Americans rec­og­nized they had a prob­lem and they act­ed deci­sive­ly to ensure that the coun­try would not bow to criminals.This law has more than enough detrac­tors , thats fine, that is how a democ­ra­cy work ‚but the vast major­i­ty of Americans will argue that the law serves the pur­pose for which it was intend­ed. American cities, and small com­mu­ni­ties are not con­trolled by heav­i­ly armed, maraud­ing, blood thirsty gang­sters with law-enforce­ment in retreat.

The JCF can­not not get the nec­es­sary sup­port it needs from Government to refrain from polit­i­cal games­man­ship with National Security. Declare a State Of Public Emergency. Give the secu­ri­ty forces the room they need­ed, to solid­i­fy and hold the grounds they cleared. This is a seri­ous indict­ment on the Government.! The Police for its part is still mired in alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion. Too many of its mem­bers alleged to be involved in crim­i­nal behav­ior. There are also loud accu­sa­tions that some offi­cers are them­selves close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with some of the lead­ing crim­i­nal gangs in the coun­try. The two lead­ing gangs the One Order an alleged JLP proxy and the Klans man a PNP affil­i­ate are at the fore­front of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty, from my sources on the ground in the old cap­i­tal of Spanish Town and it’s envi­rons, over the last sev­er­al years crime in and around Spanish Town has been out of con­trol, even dur­ing the days of for­mer no-non­sense crime fight­ers like Kelso Smalls and oth­ers, Spanish Town’s crim­i­nals had shown a cer­tain tenac­i­ty and deter­mi­na­tion, that required hard-nosed polic­ing, from Sufferers heights, to De la Vega City, from Thawes Pen to Brunswick Avenue, and all places in between crime and Political vio­lence was left unchecked, and in many instances sup­port­ed by politicians.

As a mem­ber of the Rangers Squad out of the Mobile Reserve and lat­er serv­ing at the Constant Spring CIB I am acute­ly aware of what it takes to ensure that the streets are con­trolled by the rule of law. The JCF through favoritism, Political affil­i­a­tion, and just plain incom­pe­tence has caused a once well-regard­ed Agency to be reduced to one of ridicule and shame. Through its inef­fec­tive devel­op­ment of its great­est asset, the peo­ple who vol­un­teer , it has caused the Department to expe­ri­ence one of the high­est rate of attri­tion of any pub­lic body in the Country.

The Jamaican peo­ple have lost count­less mil­lions of tax Dollars to attri­tion. They saw no returns on their invest­ment. Many mem­bers decid­ed not to get caught up in a no win sit­u­a­tion and have left., Some are unable to leave but would at a momen­t’s notice were they giv­en the chance. The solu­tion is not a sim­ple one ‚but one that requires will,vision, and know-how, the Jamaican peo­ple have to avail them­selves to the fact that call­ing the Authorities and report­ing crim­i­nal activ­i­ty [snitch­ing] is in their best Interest. They must under­stand that an atmos­phere of no snitch­ing is fer­tile soil for crim­i­nal­i­ty to flour­ish. They must real­ize that as cit­i­zens with rights, they have respon­si­bil­i­ties to act with cir­cum­spec­tion and responsibility.They must deter­mine to sac­ri­fice for coun­try, resist­ing the instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion of now. [eat a food men­tal­i­ty] .

They must endeav­or to stop cor­rupt­ing pub­lic offi­cials, and they must uni­fy around the com­mon cause of crime erad­i­ca­tion. It is impos­si­ble to gauge how many killers are walk­ing the streets and by-ways of Jamaica, what is cer­tain is that there are hun­dreds pos­si­bly thou­sands. many young men walk­ing the streets have slaugh­tered dozens of peo­ple , raped and killed many women, girls and lit­tle boys, and will nev­er be brought before a Jamaican court to account for any of those crimes.

There are count­less oth­ers whom are involved in mur­der for hire. Through mur­der for hire , they have oth­ers do their killing for them, even in the rare case of an inves­ti­ga­tion they are nev­er named. Subsequently they con­tin­ue to pay oth­ers to exter­mi­nate peo­ple as they see fit.

I get real mad when some for­eign group or indi­vid­ual goes to my coun­try and walk around with some­one from a depressed com­mu­ni­ty , ask a few ques­tions, then pro­ceed to go back to their coun­try and write sto­ries as if they under­stand some­thing about Jamaican crim­i­nal­i­ty . I am equal­ly pissed about their sur­ro­gates like those with­in the crim­i­nal sup­port­ing group Jamaicans for jus­tice. It’s exec­u­tive direc­tor who have no under­stand­ing of what obtains in ghet­tos , oth­er than what they are told ‚or from watch­ing tele­vi­sion. They col­lect state­ments from crim­i­nals or their fam­i­ly mem­bers run with it to their for­eign han­dlers who pro­ceed to slan­der the secu­ri­ty forces and the coun­try. The groups that sup­pos­ed­ly care about human rights are nev­er con­cerned , nev­er do they talk about the col­lec­tive harm and trau­ma that is being vis­it­ed on the Nation as a result of the sick­en­ing slaugh­ter of our inno­cent broth­ers and sis­ters, large­ly by drug and sex crazed demons parad­ing as men. Demons that have no souls, vam­pires if you will, who pride them­selves in the ghoul­ish slaugh­ter of the innocent.

Those are the peo­ple whose rights are guar­an­teed in Jamaica, our Law Enforcement Officials are required to tip toe around these mur­der­ing low lives. Criminal rights groups are heav­i­ly involved in the run­ning of the coun­try’s secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus. Criminals are like cock­roaches , shine a light they will scam­per for cover,keep the light on and they stay away, those who dare return face the fury of the roach spray !!!!

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ALLEGED KILLER OF KHAJEEL MAIS CHARGED

The much-antic­i­pat­ed iden­ti­ty of the alleged shoot­er of 17-year-old Kingston College school­boy Khajeel Mais is a secret no longer.
The Police has just iden­ti­fied the shoot­er as 50 years old Patrick Powell of Belgrade Loop of St. Andrew.
Powell is report­ed­ly charged with mur­der, ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm, shoot­ing with intent and fail­ure to hand over the weapon to Police.

We will update you as more infor­ma­tion becomes avail­able, how­ev­er we have to ask why is he is not charged with ille­gal pos­ses­sion of Ammunition also, if the weapon is ille­gal then the Ammo is also illegal.

Come on JCF it’s about time you start clos­ing loop­holes and throw­ing the book at these guys,.

Just do the job right.!!!

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SCORE ONE FOR LAW ABIDING JAMAICANS:

Sharon Hay-Webster
Sharon Hay-Webster

Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster yes­ter­day vot­ed with Government mem­bers to secure the exten­sion of a piece of leg­is­la­tion which gives the police pow­er to arrest sus­pect­ed crim­i­nals with­out charge for up to 72 hours. Hay-Webster, who recent­ly resigned from the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), said sid­ing with her for­mer par­ty would amount to gross dere­lic­tion of duty.“I speak in defence of the many cit­i­zens’ lives that have been pro­tect­ed because of these inter­im acts that we have done,” said Hay-Webster, who rep­re­sents the volatile south cen­tral St Catherine said. “I could not vote against this inter­im act exten­sion because I believe it is for the pro­tec­tion of life and prop­er­ty, and I vote for that for my peo­ple,” she added(Taken from the Jamaica Gleaner) Sharon Hay Webster, Jamaica thanks you .This is not the first time you have bucked con­ven­tion­al wis­dom, and stood with the Jamaican peo­ple . Ronald Thwaites is the MP of a Jamaican Garrison.[fact] D K Duncan ‚what can I say ? A sad reminder of a shame­ful past, (see Granges com­ments) [fact] This brings us to Peter Bunting,this is the shad­ow Minister of National Security , and a pos­si­ble future Minister of National secu­ri­ty ! Every Police Officer, Army Officer,every sol­dier, every law-abid­ing Jamaican ought to be aghast, that any­one with views like his could have any­thing to do with National secu­ri­ty , or their own secu­ri­ty. In any Country seri­ous about crime, this guy would­n’t even have a secu­ri­ty clear­ance, not so in Jamaica , here he con­tin­ues to play cheap polit­i­cal, games with the safe­ty and secu­ri­ty of the Jamaican people.

As I have main­tained , sup­port­ed by facts ‚when­ev­er the Jamaican peo­ple need­ed the PNP on the sen­si­tive issue of National Security, they are nev­er there, this is a his­tor­i­cal fact . On the 2nd of March 1972 the People’s National Party came to pow­er in Jamaica on a wave of pop­u­lar support,after run­ning on a plat­form of “bet­ter must come” under their watch Jamaica expe­ri­enced its great­est peri­od of Political trib­al­ism and blood-let­ting, this result­ed in Hundreds of peo­ple loos­ing their lives to Political killings. The great­est peri­ods of upheaval was those lead­ing up to the 1976 and 1980 Elections which saw a blood strug­gle between the forces loy­al to Edward Seaga of the JLP and Michael Manley of the PNP.Many will argue that the vio­lence was not car­ried out by just PNP sup­port­ers , this is absolute­ly cor­rect , there are no attempts here at lay­ing blame for polit­i­cal vio­lence. The argu­ments being made here are about the lack of resolve shown by Manley and his Government to effec­tive­ly re-estab­lish the Authority of the rule of law, dur­ing this peri­od the secu­ri­ty forces were ren­dered impo­tent , lack of weapons , lack of per­son­nel, lack of vehi­cles, and lack of support,prisoners were removed from Police lock ups by PNP politi­cians and their goons , while Police Officers stood by unable to act, The Olympic Gardens Police Station was invad­ed and Police Officers slaugh­tered. Elections were held on 15 December 1976 , while the state of emer­gency was still in effect. The PNP was returned to office. The State of Emergency con­tin­ued into the next year. Extraordinary pow­ers grant­ed the police by the Suppression of Crime Act of 1974 con­tin­ued to the end of the 1980s.(source Manley Wikipedia page) more than 500 peo­ple were arrest­ed and locked up at the Army Barracks Up Park Camp with­out charge , with­out bail,most if not all were either JLP politi­cians or sup­port­ers of the JLP. They were sup­pos­ed­ly held because they were plot­ting to over­throw the Manley Government, to date not one per­son so held was ever charged , much less con­vict­ed for plot­ting to over­throw the Government. Interestingly, despite this his­to­ry , last year the People’s National par­ty under the lead­er­ship of Portia Simpson Miller refused en mass to sup­port the Security Forces by extend­ing the lim­it­ed State of Emergency , a move that would effec­tive­ly give them breath­ing room to secure and hold ter­ri­to­ries under the con­trol of well armed thugs who threat­ened the Jamaican State. The PNP used the pop­ulist argu­ment of not want­i­ng to see the rights of peo­ple vio­lat­ed by the secu­ri­ty forces,an argu­ment that res­onates with the ter­ror­ists in Tivoli Gardens and all oth­er Garrisons with­in our coun­try, and the crim­i­nal cod­dling sym­pa­thiz­ers in Jamaicans for jus­tice, but which had no cred­i­bil­i­ty with rea­son­able peo­ple in Jamaica or the rest of the world who watched with hor­ror as armed mili­tias attacked and destroyed police vehi­cles , killed mem­bers of our police force and mil­i­tary, as well as numer­ous mem­bers of the public.

Armed mili­tia mem­bers could be seen on the streets parad­ing with AK47 rifles burn­ing shoot­ing and mur­der­ing at will,some will log­i­cal­ly argue that this hap­pened under the JLP , and they would be absolute­ly cor­rect, the argu­ment being made here is the PNP’s lack of sup­port for the rule of law , not sup­port­ing what Golding was forced to do after his man­gling of the Christopher Coke débâ­cle. By refus­ing to sup­port the lim­it­ed state of emer­gency the PNP sided with the Forces of Anarchy. No amount of argu­ment to the con­trary will con­vince law-abid­ing peo­ple in Jamaica or around the world otherwise,and dam sure won’t con­vince me .Not sup­port­ing our Police and mil­i­tary was a repro­bate act ‚one steeped in Political expe­di­en­cy, one which left the Jamaican peo­ple out to dry at the mer­cy of AK47 tot­ing thugs. There are those who argue the Government could sim­ply have accept­ed a stop-gap mea­sure the oppo­si­tion offered , or sim­ply go back to the Governor General to gain an exten­sion, indis­putable facts , but facts that does noth­ing to negate the threach­ery they engaged in choos­ing not to sup­port those who risk their lives to make sure oth­ers may be safe, that was an act of betray­al, it is full-time the PNP stop play­ing polit­i­cal games with the lives of the Jamaican peo­ple , it is time the pos­tur­ing and pla­cat­ing stop,the long-term eco­nom­ic suc­cess and well-being of the Jamaican peo­ple hinges on a safe and secure Nation, there can be no growth with­out stability.

As we speak the PNP is on a grand tour around the Country, tech­ni­cal­ly noth­ing is wrong with what they are doing, since what they do very well is cam­paign, but women and chil­dren , young men and old men are being behead­ed, and as Portia and Knight and the oth­er bunch of old fail­ures parade on the cir­cus tour, they utter nary a word of con­dem­na­tion of what is going on in the coun​try​.As far as they are con­cerned it is just par for the course. Ask Portia Simpson Miller what are her plans if she wins the next elec­tion and the response will be the same tired old nar­ra­tive from I was a child„helping the poor. One would hope those offer­ing them­selves up for lead­er­ship , or in Jamaica’s case ruler­ship , would under­stand this , most of the peo­ple in the PNP are old recy­cled fail­ures whom have been around for decades tak­ing turn after turn at the pub­lic trough,Thwaites, Duncan.Portia Simpson Miller, Pickersgill,Davis, the list goes on and on , all of these guys have been in rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al pol­i­tics since I was kid , they have failed and are now lin­ing up for anoth­er go around at the pub­lic’s expense, how long are the peo­ple going to remain bliss­ful­ly igno­rant? how much longer are they going to squan­der their’s and their chil­dren’s future on the altar of polit­i­cal alle­giance to both polit­i­cal par­ties .Over the decades this par­ty has shown noth­ing but reck­less disregard,and absolute incom­pe­tence on the issue of crime and vio­lence, and the baby they pro­duce, Terrorism.

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ARE THESE THE POLICE OUR COPS NEED TO EMULATE?

Rupert Mudoch was assault­ed today as he and his son James Murdoch sat in a room being grilled by British Lawmakers, .The much vaunt­ed Metropolitan Police who are respon­si­ble for pro­tect­ing the Members of Parliament, wit­ness­es and observers , all of whom amount­ed to a grand total of fifty , are now left to explain how a man car­ry­ing a bag con­tain­ing a plate full of shav­ing foam could have entered the hear­ing room undetected,and unchecked by those charged with pro­tect­ing the occu­pants of the hear­ing room.

Rupert Murdoch and his son James, were appear­ing in front of British Parliamentarians to answer ques­tions about the bur­geon­ing phone hack­ing scan­dal involv­ing one of their pub­li­ca­tions News of the world.

The Metropolitan Police has seen their num­ber one and two peo­ple at the helm step down ‚as a result of this scandal,and are now fur­ther embar­rassed by this inci­dent, which clear­ly is one of gross incompetence.

Jamaica has invest­ed hand­some­ly in bring­ing British Police to Jamaica to help to reshape our Police Department, the qual­i­ty of returns on that Investment has sure­ly not been vis­it­ed by any­one in Authority in Jamaica, the man on the streets how­ev­er may have some­thing to say about how that mon­ey was spent and they sure­ly have their opin­ions on how Mark Shields impact­ed the JCF, beyond show boating,morale eroding,disrespecting, grand­stand­ing, and cock­tail cir­cuit­ing trotting.

The point of this Blog is to point out that Incompetence is not con­fined to any par­tic­u­lar group, the Colonialist men­tal­i­ty per­va­sive in Jamaica, is seri­ous­ly test­ed here, with these inci­dents and alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion and incom­pe­tence on the part of British Police The com­mon wis­dom seem to sug­gest that if it is done by some­one oth­er than us, it is done cor­rect­ly , there is evi­dence that would tend to sup­port this men­tal­i­ty, how­ev­er I am aware that giv­en the tools no one is bet­ter than us when we put our mind to it.

I hope we will look at these inci­dents and real­ize that the answers to the prob­lems we face lies with us , and no one else, we will have to fix them, and no amount of British or American accent will, it is up to us.

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Liberal Supreme Court Overturns Law That Keeps Criminals In Jail.

A Full Court, com­pris­ing Justice Horace Marsh, Justice Patrick Brooks and Justice Leighton Pusey held on Friday that the amend­ments to the Bail Act were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and made sev­er­al dec­la­ra­tions. Amendments were made to the Bail Act as the Government strug­gled to deal with the high crime rate and was expect­ed to be in place for one year. The 60-day peri­od in cus­tody was sub­ject to the right of the per­son being held to be brought before the court after sev­en days, and there­after at 14-day inter­vals, at which time the court reviews the ques­tion of whether the per­son should con­tin­ue to be held in cus­tody or bail be con­sid­ered. The pros­e­cu­tion also had the right to appeal against the grant­i­ng of bail.

FORMER JUSTICE Minister Senator A.J. Nicholson, QC, has wel­comed the court’s rul­ing that last year’s amend­ments to the Bail Act were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. The Supreme Court struck down the amend­ments last Friday. He explained that, as leader of Opposition busi­ness, when the pro­posed leg­is­la­tion came to be debat­ed in the Senate he advised that the People’s National Party (PNP) would not lend sup­port to the amend­ments because the Government min­is­ters who pilot­ed the Bill failed to con­vince them that the amend-ments were not in breach of cer­tain sec­tions of the Chapter on Fundamental Rights in the Constitution.(cour­tesy the jamaica glean­er) It was report­ed then that short­ly before six anti-crime bills were passed on July 9 last year, for­mer res­i­dent mag­is­trate Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte had acknowl­edged that the Interim Bail Act to pro­vide for a 60-day deten­tion of per­sons who com­mit seri­ous gun and drug-relat­ed offences was draconian.

One thing is appar­ent , and that is that both sides of the polit­i­cal divide, play polit­i­cal games with crime when they are in oppo­si­tion, recent state­ments from Delroy Chuch (now Justice Minister) and Peter Bunting from the PNP made them unqual­i­fied to hold any office that has to do with crime and nation­al security.These hacks should nev­er be privy to any­thing that has to do with security.

Unfortunately these are the civil­lian boss­es of the Police force and Military, it’s a damn dis­grace that these morons who dis­parge police and the rule of law from their perch­es on the oppo­si­tion bench­es , when elect­ed pre­tend that they are bas­tions of sup­port for the rule of law. These guys should not even be allowed in to clean the floors of the peo­ple’s house of Parliament.

The Ruling of the Supreme Court in this mat­ter shows a cou­ple of things, .(1) That the Architects of this piece of leg­is­la­tion did not take enough legal coun­sel to ensure that it would pass the Constitutional smell test.(2) That Jamaica’s Judges sim­ply does not get it. Now let me has­ten to say I am not a Lawyer, and I must also add that if the piece of Legislation is Unconstitutional then the learned Judges has a duty to strike it down. Clearly from their actions they believe that it was Unconstitutional as con­sti­tut­ed. This brings us to the meat of the matter:Who were the part­ners with the Government in draft­ing this piece of Legislation? it clear­ly could not be the Opposition Party in Jamaica, clear­ly every­one knows that they will take no action against crim­i­nal­i­ty or Terror , .This left the Government with no grown ups , with whom to debate, a com­po­nent impor­tant in get­ting the best results possible.

The Jamaican pub­lic, clear­ly an opin­ion­at­ed but nonethe­less large­ly uninformed,uneducated pub­lic must under­stand that this forms part of the rea­son the leg­is­la­tion was ruled Unconstitutional. On the oth­er hand it is Interesting to take note as we crow about the fact that our Democracy works, that we must ask our­selves ” work for whom” Does this Ruling work for the almost two Thousand peo­ple whom are slaugh­tered each year?. Does it work for the Hundreds of chil­dren mur­dered.? Does it work for the hun­dreds of women Raped each year? Does it work for the peo­ple liv­ing in the Garrisons whose daugh­ters are being abused by Local thugs ‚who are unable to speak out because of fear of their lives and their prop­er­ty.? Does it work for the peo­ple who are chased out of their homes, their homes razed with fire , or tak­en over by thugs.? Does it work for the Police Officers and sol­diers who toil to remove the ter­ror­ists from the streets only to see them released back onto the streets as soon as they are tak­en in.? Does it work for the silent Jamaicans who are too scared or too pow­er­less to open­ly declare that yes they do sup­port the mea­sures of the Government ‚at least in rec­og­niz­ing that there needs to be tough new, appro­pri­ate Legislation enact­ed that have com­men­su­rate penal­ty for the crimes being com­mit­ted. When we remove all of the afore­men­tioned from the equa­tion , just who should be proud of the Supreme Court’s Ruling? Is it the Elitists that reside in the Mansions above Cross Roads,or the Criminals that lit­er­al­ly run the streets ?.

Either way this is real­ly no great vic­to­ry for dea­cent Jamaican people.!!!!

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THE MAD LIBERAL AGENDA OF JAMAICA’S COURTS:

THE MAD LIBERAL AGENDA OF JAMAICA’S COURTS.

THE SUPREME Court yes­ter­day struck down con­tro­ver­sial amend­ments to the Bail Act. The amend­ments allowed for per­sons charged with seri­ous offences to be dis­qual­i­fied for bail for a max­i­mum of 60 days.Supreme Court judges Horace March, Patrick Brooks, and Leighton Pusey heard the motion and grant­ed dec­la­ra­tions that the amend­ments were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and void.

The fore­gone was the lead para­graph in a the Jamaica Gleaner sto­ry regard­ing Jamaica’s Supreme Court Ruling strik­ing down the Government’s amend­ment to the Bail Act.

Attorneys-at-law Norman Godfrey and Marcus Greenwood, who rep­re­sent­ed two per­sons who were being detained under the Bail Act, took the issue to the Supreme Court in May. They argued that the amend­ments were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al, inhu­mane, and inter­fered with the judge’s dis­cre­tion to grant bail for cer­tain offences, includ­ing mur­der. They also argued that the amend­ments removed a cit­i­zen’s fun­da­men­tal right to bail.(glean­er quote)

The Government, in an attempt to curb the high crime rate, had amend­ed the Bail Act in July last year for one year. The act was extend­ed recently.(gleaner quote)

The Supreme court has a right to rule on the Constitutionality and the Un-con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of any law, .
The Parliament, the peo­ple’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives, have a right to make new laws, alter or repeal old, use­less ‚or archa­ic ones ‚and even amend the Constitution.
Those who pre­tend that the peo­ple’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives have no busi­ness inter­fer­ing with laws sim­ply do not under­stand how the sys­tem works , or are disin­gen­u­ous , with acts to grind (enter the tri­al lawyers).
If stronger mea­sures are required to ensure good order ‚then what is need­ed is an amend­ment to the out­dat­ed con­sti­tu­tion, or throw it out all togeth­er, my vote is for the latter.
Over the years the Jamaican Courts have stead­fast­ly refused to keep pace with the rest of the world in the way seri­ous crimes are addressed,the Courts which takes it’s cue from England clear­ly has missed the boat on how to deal with crim­i­nals and terrorists.
Listed here I will show a few cas­es of total mad­ness by Jamaica’s learned Judges , you be the Judge, (no pun intended)

(1) 04/​21/​2010Jamaica Star: Judge grant­ed bail to 6 men who alleged­ly beat a mar­ried cou­ple who were engaged in inti­ma­cy in the pri­va­cy of their own home.The scums alleged­ly accused the cou­ple of freaky sex,then report­ed­ly beat both hus­band and wife with bats, after which they com­menced to gang rape the woman, report­ed­ly doing the same thing the man was doing to his wife in a con­sen­su­al manner,They report­ed­ly then put a gun to her head and forced her to per­form oral sex on all of them.She report­ed­ly passed out.all six were grant­ed bail in the sum of J$300,000.
Presiding Judge MARCIA DUNBAR-GREEN
(2) 04/​21/​2010 Star : Judge pur­port­ed­ly tells Police Officer to col­lect state­ment from inmate Oniel Fraser,The inmate, Oneil Fraser, charged with wound­ing with intent, told the court that he was being abused by the police offi­cers at the Kingston Central jail and that an Inspector stabbed at him with a knife,Superintendent Cornel Messam of the Kingston Central Police Station told THE STAR that he was aware of the accu­sa­tions made by the inmate. However, he men­tioned that the senior offi­cer was wrong­ful­ly accused.

“I am aware of the mat­ter, how­ev­er, the inmate is not being truth­ful about the mat­ter,” said Messam.According to the senior offi­cer, Fraser has been involved in a num­ber of inci­dents at the facil­i­ty since his trans­fer from the Half-Way Tree lock-up. Messam added that such a claim is impos­si­ble, since weapons are strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed from enter­ing the lock-ups,
“I know that inmate, he is a trou­ble­mak­er that was trans­ferred from the Half-Way Tree lock-up … Such alle­ga­tions are impos­si­ble because knives and guns are not car­ried into jail,” said the senior officer.

Fraser was sen­tenced to three months in prison last week for using a pad­lock to cause injury to an inmate.

The police said that the mat­ter is being investigated.
Resident Magistrate Georgiana Fraser was very con­cerned about this accu­sa­tion and imme­di­ate­ly asked that a police offi­cer take a state­ment from the inmate and ensure that it is report­ed to the Complaints Division.

(3) Friday July 16th 2010 Activist Judge Judith Pusey grant­ed bail to a 51 yr old moth­er, and her 15-year-old daugh­ter, in the sum of J$150,00, and J$50,000 respectively,the equiv­a­lent of US1’685.00, and US$561.00 , both women were charged with blud­geon­ing to death the 55 yr old father and boyfriend of both accused,nothing more to be said here this is unimag­in­able this is what life is worth in Jamaica the price of a park­ing ticket.

(4) cor­po­rate area Court:A judge releas­es two men with sus­pend­ed sen­tences of one year , after they con­fessed to putting a bul­let through the back of a taxi dri­ver whom they robbed so they could have mon­ey for new sneak­ers and jack­ets to wear to the dance the night of the killing, the deceased left a wife and three chil­dren with­out any form of finan­cial support.
The Judges com­ment on releas­ing them ? I don’t want you men to become more hard­ened crim­i­nals by send­ing you to prison.
My ques­tion is, how much more hard­ened can one become beyond being an armed rob­ber and a murderer? .
If I was to haz­ard a guess I would say this is not the first crim­i­nal act they had com­mit­ted, nor the first life they had taken.

This par­tic­u­lar case has left me stunned beyond words.

The cas­es of Judaical abuse and absolute­ly insan­i­ty are too many to men­tion , but now here in this forum we will be hold­ing their feet to the fire, we will be call­ing them out. and we will not be deterred,

Have your say.

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JAMAICAN POLICE STILL HAS NOT RELEASED NAME OF SUSPECT

The Jamaican Police up to the time of this post still has not released the name of the shoot­er in their cus­tody accused of killing 17 years old school­boy Khajeel Mais in an appar­ent case of road rage gone ter­ri­bly wrong .
Young Mais, an inno­cent vic­tim, rid­ing in the back of a Cab to a fête at a high School, became the vic­tim of a ter­ri­ble case of road rage when the cab in which he was a pas­sen­ger alleged­ly ran into the back of a BMW-x6 sport util­i­ty vehicle.
Its is alleged that the dri­ver of the sport util­i­ty vehi­cle emerged from the vehi­cle fir­ing at the cab, the cab dri­ver it is report­ed turned his cab around and head­ed in the oppo­site direc­tion ‚with the x6 dri­ver still firing.
It is the trag­ic tale of how a promis­ing young life was snuffed out in a sense­less act of total madness.
The Police for their part has stead­fast­ly refused to name the shoot­er, even though it is report­ed he fled the Island for the United States, has since returned to the Country ‚and from their own account, is in custody.
This case has gen­er­at­ed wide­spread out­cry, and cor­rect­ly so, there are also accu­sa­tions of cov­er up and cor­rup­tion lev­eled at the Police in the way they have han­dled this case, in a man­ner that is incon­sis­tent with their (modus operan­di )mode of oper­a­tion, sim­ply put ‚the police have a duty to inform the pub­lic of the progress, of the case, they work for the pub­lic, and the rea­sons giv­en by sev­er­al per­sons with­in the Department includ­ing the Commissioner sim­ply does not add up.
We are well aware that there are cir­cum­stances that pre­vent the Police from divulging every­thing they know ‚we are also aware there are ways to keep the Public apprised with­out jeop­ar­diz­ing the case.
The Police has by their actions, shift­ed some of the pub­lic’s anger from the sus­pect onto them­selves, some­thing the Department can ill afford to do.
How say you.?