Jamaica was penalized for weed entering US, Us pays no penalty for it's guns killing Jamaicans....

Kudos to the JCF for getting back to intelligence gathering and cultivating the assets that pass on critical information.
Clearly, it is bearing fruits as we saw in January with 88 guns seized, including 13 rifles and 59 handguns, along with an assorted range of ammunition.
The police commissioner, under pressure to produce results, was more than happy to parade one of the AK47s recovered by officers to the media, and why not? We all need a break from the critics sometimes. (smile)

Anderson showing off an AK47 recovered by the police

This is one of the weapons of choice of the gunmen that create mayhem, pain, and death in our society. It has a 600-rounds-per minute rate of fire. You can get it with a 30‑, 50- or a 100-round magazine. This weapon, depending on its condition, goes for anywhere between $500,000 and $1 million, and this weapon and M16s and pistols are what we have been seizing. [Recently], we seized six rifles, two shotguns, and two pistols in a very small geographic space.” Anderson reported.
The police is fighting a losing battle-one that is similar to using a cup to remove the water from a boat taking ingallons per minute. Clearly the number of weapons entering the country far exceeds anything the police could do to remove them from the streets.
And so the fight to stop the flow of illegal guns into the Island must be confronted on two fronts, (1) intelligence gathering on the Island and (2) even better intelligence on the transnational criminals in the United States who are sending these weapons into the country through the porous ports.

This means that as the United States penalized Jamaica and its former carrier Air Jamaica for marijuana entering the United States in the 80’s to the 90s, so too must Jamaica insist and demand that there are consequences to the Unietd States for allowing the flood of illegal guns into Jamaica.
Imagine if the situation was reversed and Jamaican guns were killing in excess of a thousand Americans each year; how long would that have been allowed to continue?
There cannot be two sets of rules for the way countries operate on the international stage. Small countries are penalized for drugs and even marijuana leaving their ports in the US while America’s guns kill tens of thousands around the globe with no consequence to the United States.
Who created those rules- how can this iniequitous system continue to prevail?

The police commissioner told the press;“This is a symbol of it — an AK-47. The illegal firearms they carry are very often used to create fear, even when they aren’t killing people. It is the main source of intimidation. An example is Travis Gilman, who was convicted in 2021 of 11 counts of murder and illegal possession of firearm. He was sentenced to 210 years.“These gunmen and gangs are quite often part of sophisticated criminal networks that have transnational connection and require us to use our manpower, intelligence, technology, and our partnerships and operational strategies to confront what is essentially a criminal organisation whose purpose is to profit from the misery of our society.”
The police chief also made sure that he got a dig in;“I assure Jamaicans that our part of the system is being worked effectively, and we are using a range of operational and crime strategies to get the results.”
Not sure that it is working as effectively as it could, however his point was is well taken.
The Government and opposition party refuses to give the police the legislative support they need. The judicial branch of the government turn the violent murderers back onto the streets as soon as the police arrests them.
So Commissioner Anderson is right that the police is working overtime to get the job done but one hand cannot clap.