♦Gunmen shoots up Bus on Haddo main road Westmoreland three injured, police apprehend one shooter.
♦ The previous day two men were murdered in the same Parish.
♦ Man dead after gun attack in West Kingston. In that incident two men were shot at the Intersection of North and Regent streets.
♦ Man feared dead after gun attack in Kingston 12.
♦Last week, Constable Lynden Barrett fell victim to the gun when he was killed on Wellington Street in Denham Town. But the West Kingston police had been kept busy over the weekend as gunmen again traded bullets across the division. Yesterday, RJR reported that on Saturday police were called to investigate an incident where gunmen went to premises on Metcalfe Street and opened fire, injuring one man. A few hours later, gunmen reportedly went to Third Street in Trench Town and carried out another shooting, leaving another man injured. On Saturday afternoon, 26-year-old Horace Cespedes was reportedly shot and killed in Torrington Park. Later, in a section of Tivoli Gardens called Bumps, a man was reportedly shot and injured as gunmen traded bullets in the May Pen Cemetery. The police also reported a shooting in Golden Heights, Denham Town, in which a man was injured.
These are just a few of the crime reports coming out of Jamaica today. The blood-letting in Jamaica has continued unabated. Everyone seem to have a gun and everyone wants to show they are able to use them without consequence. Last week three Police Officers lost their lives within days of each other , two by the gun.
Additionally the snuffing out of civilian lives continue at a merry clip. The Opposition Jamaica Labor Party has come out in support of tougher measures to curb crime.
The American Embassy issued a statement in support of Police officers and denounced criminals operating in the country.
Missing from the entire discourse was a single word from the Island’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller who was someplace on Vacation according to some media reports.
Not a single word from the Island’s Prime Minister after three Police Officers were murdered. Ask yourselves, where else in the World would this happen ? What other Nation’s leader would be able to get away with this?
World Leaders tweet and use other Social media to get their message out . Jamaica’s PM had nothing , not a single statement after 3 Agents of the state were viciously slaughtered. You can’t make this stuff up , we are all proud when our athletes perform well . Whether they win or not they continue to do Jamaica proud.
We do notice that when soccer games are on Television crime is at a minimum but sports performances though laudable are not a sustainable national security strategy.
Jamaican Athletes continue to do the Island proud. The same cannot be said of the Nation’s Political leadership. But talk about misplaced priorities, what is this woman thinking?
What World is Portia Simpson Miller living in? The place is awash in guns, citizens and police alike are being slaughtered all around, Miller issues a Prime Ministerial response to the second place finish of the Island’s soccer team..
Those disagreeing, arguing that both can be done simultaneously I have one word for you, “context”.
Frankly I am not concerned whether anyone reading this agrees with me or not .The point of the matter is that this woman is an intellectual retard.
It is not her fault that she occupies the office she does, neither do I blame her for lacking the concept of optics.Her ascendancy to the highest seat of political power is testament to the moral rot that is at the heart of present day Jamaica. My criticisms of Miller has nothing to do with her gender as is the default arguments of her cult-followers. Neither are they related to her supposed lack of formal education. I believe she has shown considerable political savvy which has put her more formally educated contemporaries to shame.
My problem with Miller is her incompetence and lack of empathy for the victims of present day crises while pretending to love the poor and injured.
This makes her a fraud and a hypocrite.
In the meantime Senior Superintendent Cornwall (bigga) Ford is appealing to residents of west Kingston to stop shielding Criminals.
SSP Ford challenged residents to step forward and report what they know to the Police. If they are opposed to doing that they have options.
Said Ford. “We have a system in place to protect the people… and if they don’t trust the police in West Kingston they can go to MOCA (Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency). There are many places they can go,” .
The reality is that SSP Ford is exasperated , having known him for many years and having chased down criminals together with him, I know first-hand what he is saying.
“You security is in your hands”.
Police operate on intelligence , that’s how criminals end up behind bars. In many of these neighborhoods people are schooled from birth to be wary
of police. When you are wary of police and you do not coöperate with them, by default your loyalties are with those who oppose social order.
The prevailing narrative in Jamaica is the customary, it’s police fault.
That is intellectual indolence at best and at worst intellectual dishonesty.
The Jamaica Police did not create Arnett Gardens. Wilton Gardens. Tivoli Gardens. Dunkirk. Nannyville. Water House. Red Square. Sufferers Heights.
Police did not create the multiplicity of political zones of exclusions across the country from St Tomas in the East to Westmoreland in the West.
Jamaica’s filthy opportunistic political predators did .
So lets qualify our understanding of what brought us to this point.
Jamaicans are major show-offs, we read about situations in foreign countries and we immediately jump to the conclusion that those situations are applicable to Jamaica. What we fail to realize is that different countries conduct studies on best practices and applicable standards for their unique situations.
If I said it once I must have said it a thousand times, Jamaican Criminals are not not like other criminals. As such we must first develop strong anti-crime measures to deal effectively and decisively with them even as we ask our law enforcement officers to be judicious with the powers we bestow on them when we ask them to protect us. We simply cannot tie their hands.
The challenge for Jamaica continue to be some little people who are exposed to a little education. These present day Pharisees pretend to know everything. They have opinions on everything. This creates a difficult paradigm and a difficult environment for those who enforce the laws. One fool makes many.
Many of these half-baked idiots have megaphones and platforms which gives them the ability to shape opinions.
One such grand-stander is Terrence Williams head of INDECOM the Agency tasked with investigating lawbreaking withing the JCF,JDF and Corrections Department.
Since taking office Williams has stridently pursued a policy of acrimony and discord with the aforementioned Agencies and in particular the Police department which is the front-line Agency tasked with dealing with society’s worst.
Williams’ approach to the job succinctly represents the mindset of the idiot-class of which I speak.
They proffer grand superfluous dissertations on the rights of criminals, until of course the shit hits the fan.
For years Terrence Williams partnered with Carolyn Gomes, Susan Goffe , Derrick Levy , and a phalanx of other pontificating fools to create a culture that the police was the enemy.
Carolyn Gomes did her damage and received her National honor for it. Undoubtedly Terrence Williams will get his also, the question now remains how much blood did it take to justify Gomes’ National honor?
How much more blood will flow until Williams receive his?
Now that the shit is hitting the fan Williams is having an about face. When it’s not gratuitous empathy with Police it is a complete departure from his positions of the past.
Said Williams, Quote: “We know there are many of them, who join the force, who are good and want to give good service. Our campaign for this next period is to reach out to them, for them to maintain the pride of their organisation by pointing out and indicating when persons have not met the proper standard,”.
“Them” ?
This condescending little bastard ‚“many of them who join the force” Who the hell does this little punk think he is ?
It’s not the words you speak ‚sometimes it’s how they are perceived.
As this little Napoleon speak about the need for unity his very phrasing belies his true person.
Speaking down to the police, on that basis the police should not give him one iota of support in his quest for relevance.