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No One May Be Forced To Self Incriminate:

Supreme court build­ing Kingston:

Continuing our series on Jamaica’s crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem we want to speak briefly about a motion filed by 8 police offi­cers in Jamaica’s con­sti­tu­tion­al court regard­ing the pow­er of recent­ly formed inves­tiga­tive group INDECOM’s pow­er to force them to tes­ti­fy against themselves.

INDECOM had served notices on the claimants for them to attend the Video Unit at the Central Police Station on September 14, 2010 to answer ques­tions in rela­tion to the fatal shoot­ing of two men at Tredegar Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine, on August 12, 2010. They did not attend and were sub­se­quent­ly charged by INDECOM with fail­ure to com­ply. The case, await­ing the rul­ing of the Constitutional Court, is for men­tion on May 4 in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. The attor­ney gen­er­al and the direc­tor of pub­lic pros­e­cu­tion was also named in the offi­cers suit.(jamaica​glean​er​.com)

I am not a lawyer ‚but with that dis­claimer out-of-the-way, let’s get some com­mon sense into the con­ver­sa­tion. Without tak­ing sides one way or the oth­er, it sim­ply comes down to the constitution.

INDECOM through its lawyers are con­tend­ing, had the police offi­cers attend­ed the Central Police Station Video unit to answer ques­tions from INDECOM they could have raised objec­tions regard their con­sti­tu­tion­al right to silence. Really?

If the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of these offi­cers, and all Jamaicans for that mat­ter, are guar­an­teed by the Jamaican con­sti­tu­tion against self-incrim­i­na­tion, as they most cer­tain­ly are, then the order to tes­ti­fy against them­selves is a moot order. Lawyers for INDECOM cel­e­brat­ed as they are , ought to be aware that no per­son can be forced to tes­ti­fy against them­selves, and even though police offi­cers are not peo­ple in Jamaica, they are also pro­tect­ed by the con­sti­tu­tion against self-incrim­i­na­tion. I will not attempt to indict the com­pe­tence of this court , how­ev­er this is a straight for­ward mat­ter that real­ly ought to be decid­ed straight­away with­out advisement.

Every last Jamaican cit­i­zen is guar­an­teed the right to defend them­selves against what the law calls unlaw­ful arrest, they are empow­ered to resist arrest if with­in in their opin­ion they are being sub­ject­ed to arrest unlaw­ful­ly. To cit­i­zens of oth­er coun­tries that may be shock­ing news, but it is the law in Jamaica. Every cit­i­zen in Jamaica is also guar­an­teed the right not to incrim­i­nate them­selves. In essence no cit­i­zen may be forced to speak to the police, if evi­dence is deemed to be gleaned through threats, intim­i­da­tion, coer­cion, or offers and promis­es of any­thing mate­r­i­al that state­ment by that per­son becomes inad­mis­si­ble in a court of law. Unfortunately high-priced lawyers for INDECOM does not believe those guar­an­tees extend to police offi­cers when they are accused of crim­i­nal actions.

What lawyers for INDECOM are ask­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al court to do is to dis­re­gard the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of these 8 police offi­cers, in order that they may have more pow­er. Miranda rights as they are called in the United States, is a must for all per­sons so arrest­ed or being ques­tioned in con­nec­tion with an inves­ti­ga­tion. The right against self-incrim­i­na­tion is fun­da­men­tal, so fun­da­men­tal that even though one choses to take what is ref­ered to as the 5th in the USA, in ref­er­ence to the amend­ment to the con­sti­tu­tion that pro­vides that guar­an­tee, that per­son may not be penal­ized in any way for doing so. I know that many will argue that is in the US, the truth is those guar­an­tees are indeed avail­able to every Jamaican.

It would be a good place for the court to estab­lish authen­tic­i­ty as a fair and legit­i­mate arbiter of facts as they relate to the rights of all Jamaicans. It would be a good thing for this court to make sure jus­tice is not only done but also appear to be done. Justice delayed is jus­tice denied. Rule with­out giv­ing the impres­sion that there is a con­spir­a­cy of sorts against these defen­dants. Rule and allow the case to pro­ceed in the crim­i­nal court. The rights of these police defen­dants are not impor­tant to Jamaicans for Justice. The rights of these offi­cers are impor­tant to me.

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Jamaica Has No Interest In Law Enforcement:

Jamaica’s Daily Gleaner ran a sto­ry head­lined: NO REST FOR INDECOM: in the Sunday February 12th pub­li­ca­tion. INDECOM of course is the most recent Agency that has been cre­at­ed to over­see alle­ga­tions of police abuse and so-called extra judi­cial killings. Lets be clear-most major police depart­ments have prob­lems with abuse, bad apples with­in the ranks, when­ev­er these abus­es rear their heads it is imper­a­tive that they are root­ed out. From my per­spec­tive I have no prob­lem with over­sight of the police depart­ment, after all, pub­lic employ­ees must have over­sight and account­abil­i­ty. The gen­er­al con­cen­sus is if one has noth­ing to hide, then there is no rea­son to fear oversight.

A promi­nent con­sti­tu­tion­al lawyer in Jamaica chal­lenged me some­time ago in an email, to write about extra-judi­cal killings by police per­son­nel in Jamaica, his infer­ence being that as a for­mer police offi­cer I must have been a part of, or at a min­i­mum been wit­ness to instances of extra-judi­al killings by fel­low offi­cers. As insult­ing and arro­gant as that hubris is, it forms a cor­ner­stone of any con­ver­sa­tion involv­ing Jamaican law enforce­ment, wher­ev­er those con­ver­sa­tions happen.

NO REST FOR (INDECOM) .(Jamaicagleaner​.com)

This is the most laugh­able form of law enforce­ment imaginable .

Where is it ever writ­ten: NO REST FOR THE POLICE? The real police I might add!!!!

Reverend Gordon Evans, the com­mis­sion’s direc­tor of com­plaints for the west­ern region, told The Sunday Gleaner that the past month has offered no rest for INDECOM inves­ti­ga­tors cov­er­ing the west­ern parish­es. “We have been kept busy, par­tic­u­lar­ly over the last four weeks,” he said. The cler­gy­man explained that his team has been called upon at least once and some­times more than once in each of the last four weeks to inves­ti­gate police killings and non-fatal shoot­ings. “For this week (last week), we were called upon to inves­ti­gate two cas­es. The triple killing and anoth­er shoot­ing that was­n’t fatal,” said Evans. He added: “There tends to be a peri­od where you get a spurt and then a lull.”

A Reverend in charge of an office that inves­ti­gates police shoot­ings. What’s next police offi­cers in charge of the Seminary? Does the polit­i­cal direc­torate real­ize the stu­pid­i­ty of these over­sight bod­ies ? It nev­er worked , and it will nev­er work, the strat­e­gy must be to train, equip and pay a pro­fes­sion­al police force and do away with all of the fake and wan­na be police depart­ments . This kills morale in the real police force and forces police offi­cers to close ranks in order to pro­tect them­selves. There is nev­er going to be real coöper­a­tion between the two bod­ies and right­ly so . Police offi­cers risk their lives to pro­tect they do not need Monday morn­ing quar­ter backs com­ing in lat­er to sec­ond guess them when they take action.

If (INDECOM) is a trust­ed enti­ty which the Jamaican peo­ple are pre­pared to work with, that they feel com­fort­able with , and they are pre­pared to open up to those inves­ti­ga­tors, then the prob­lem of cor­rup­tion and police excess is solved in Jamaica. Simply give (INDECOM) the guns and uni­forms, they are the police, prob­lem solved:

Gleaner pho­to

Of course if that is not a work­able solu­tion then the whole inves­tiga­tive cha­rade is a mon­u­men­tal fraud.

A pas­tor in charge of inves­ti­gat­ing the inves­ti­ga­tors? How much more stu­pid can the pol­i­cy mak­ers be? There are some impor­tant facts Jamaicans will have to avail them­selves to, not least of which is the real­i­ty that whomev­er they chose to call when they need help, be it the tra­di­tion­al prac­tion­ers we call police offi­cers or the com­mu­ni­ty enforcer called the “Don”-the desired result is the same. The func­tion they pro­vide is polic­ing, the noun just hap­pens to be “Police”, so it mat­ters not who car­ries out the “verb”-the func­tion is the same. What this means is that cre­at­ing lay­ers of police agen­cies to police oth­er police agen­cies is an effort in futil­i­ty; a drain on the already impov­er­ished coun­try’s very lim­it­ed and in some cas­es non-exis­tent resources.

Having a seper­ate agency traips­ing around, sniff­ing at every scene of police shoot­ing, col­lect­ing state­ments and incrim­i­nat­ing cops with fab­ri­cat­ed evi­dence is not a func­tion that will engen­der trust or coöper­a­tion, if this con­tin­ues there are going to be seri­ous con­se­quences to both agen­cies and the coun­try going for­ward. Police offi­cers are not going to, and should not allow peo­ple who are asleep in the dead of night to give state­ments incrim­i­nat­ing them end­ing their careers, send­ing them to prison, send­ing them into pover­ty, and destroy­ing their lives and that of their families.

Jamaica’s Governments of both polit­i­cal par­ties have been sys­tem­at­ic fail­ures which have betrayed the scared trust of the peo­ple, lead­ing them down wrong paths time and again, tak­ing advan­tage of their trust and in some cas­es naïveté’. And in the process set­ting up real ser­vants of the peo­ple who tru­ly sac­ri­fice, pit­ting them against their broth­er in a dan­ger­ous game of exploitation.

It is time that the Jamaican peo­ple rise up, throw off the encum­ber­ing man­tle of polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion, and rec­og­nize that the polit­i­cal lead­ers are all manip­u­la­tive, lying, bas­tards who are enrich­ing them­selves at their expense with nary a thought for their inter­est. But then again how can they dis­card some­thing that has now become part of their DNA?

After all is said and done there is no men­tion of the grave dan­ger police offi­cers face in deal­ing with some of the world’s most heav­i­ly armed, deter­mined, blood-thirsty urban ter­ror­ists; the empha­sis is as always focused on those who risk it all and pay with their lives.

This is a strik­ing indict­ment on a repro­brate nation which embraces crim­i­nal punks over those sworn to pro­tect and serve. 

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MURDERERS ON THE RUN:

Just this week Police in Westmoreland were left scram­bling look­ing for two men charged with mul­ti­ple homi­cides, brought before the court , and prompt­ly released on bail by the lib­er­al fools that pass for Judges in Jamaica. First off let me say to the police here and now “do not waste any ener­gy look­ing for these two killers , if they turn up and say they want to be re-incar­cer­at­ed lock them up, but don’t waste your time look­ing for them , their sup­port­ers on the bench will just turn them loose again.”

Nowhere else in the civ­i­lized world are sus­pects accused of mur­der released on bail , nowhere! Or maybe I am putting Jamaica where it does not belong, are we a civ­i­lized nation? What are the char­ac­ter­is­tics that pre­vents Jamaican Judges from com­pre­hend­ing that crim­i­nal mur­der­ers must be behind bars. Is there a con­spir­a­cy between cer­tain Judges and trails lawyers to return crim­i­nals to the streets?

The police in Westmoreland are seek­ing two mur­der sus­pects who have abscond­ed bail.

The men are 30-year-old Jermaine Roy Brown and 26-year-old Torneil Haughton. Both men are from Alma dis­trict in Grange Hill, Westmoreland. Brown is of dark com­plex­ion, stout build, sports a dread­locked hair style, has a round face and is about 175 cen­time­tres or five feet nine inch­es tall. Haughton is 168 cen­time­tres or five feet six inch­es tall, of medi­um build, dark com­plex­ion and is blind in one eye. Both men have been charged with the mur­ders of Rasheika Clair and Stacy-Ann Kelly, who were found dead on August 25, 2008. The girls were report­ed miss­ing on August 18 of that year. Their bod­ies were found in a cave at Camp Savannah Mountain in Grange Hill. Brown and Haughton were to appear in the Westmoreland Circuit Court on February 15, 2011. However, they did not report for court. The men are con­sid­ered armed and dan­ger­ous. The police are urg­ing both men to turn them­selves in to per­son­nel at the Savanna-la-Mar police or the near­est police sta­tion imme­di­ate­ly. Anyone know­ing the where­abouts of Jermaine Roy Brown or Torneil Haughton is being asked to con­tact the Savanna-la-Mar police, Crime Stop at 311, Kingfish at 811, Police 119 emer­gency num­ber or the near­est police sta­tion.Jamaica star

Where is the out­cry from the Nation when mur­der­ers are returned to the streets as soon as police lock them up? There are those who open their foul mouths to con­demn police on every­thing they do , but are blind to what is real­ly going on in our coun­try. instead what they have done is cre­ate anoth­er use­less Agency to snoop around behind police look­ing for mis­takes in actions offi­cers take large­ly in defense of their own lives , these tax wast­ing idiots are sim­i­lar to dogs smelling the ass of oth­er dogs. The coun­try is swim­ming in blood , crim­i­nals are embold­ened to do as they please and what do they do they cre­ate a set of losers that will get no sup­port from the police and should­n’t ‚let them go face the bul­lets if they want to be cops . I urge all police offi­cers on the streets ‚not to give any assis­tance , help, or sup­port to INDECOM, if they want facts let them find it for them­selves. fur­ther­more I urge all smart offi­cers to pro­tect your lives , that of your fam­i­lies and leave the rest to INDECOM, let see these morons do some work for the mon­ey they are get­ting , they want to be inves­ti­ga­tors , let them face the music.! Rather than strength­en the coun­try’s crime fight­ing capa­bil­i­ties by con­tin­u­ing to mod­ern­ize the force, pay­ing offi­cers a decent wage, remov­ing dead-wood cops , remov­ing cor­rupt cops they cre­ate a bunch of pre­tend cops, and cre­ate a pub­lic defend­er’ office. What the hell is a pub­lic defend­er? Isn’t that what the min­istry of jus­tice is sup­posed to do ? So all these morons come beat­ing their chests , new Sheriff in town , demo­niz­ing cops as a way to remain in good stand­ing with the over­sized crim­i­nal pop­u­la­tion. So what do we end up with , from Carolyn Gomes , to Earl Witter, to Delroy Chuck, to Terrence Williams, and the list goes on and on , every­one is against the police. Who wor­ries about the crim­i­nals I wonder?

Crime has been trend­ing steadi­ly upwards of late, there are those who are apt to blame the police, does any­one stop to think that the rea­son crime is at that astro­nom­i­cal lev­el and trend­ing north­wards is sole­ly because there is very min­i­mal like­li­hood that any­one will be held account­able when they com­mit crimes . Jamaica has long sur­ren­dered to crim­i­nals. Politicians , lawyers , judges, busi­ness-peo­ple all, have long con­clud­ed that crime is here to stay and they are bet­ter of leav­ing it alone , sup­port it, or join in. The coun­try is now a crim­i­nal par­adise, remov­ing Dudus will not end crime, the can­cer­ous lesion is malig­nant, and will con­tin­ue to eat away at the very fibre of the soci­ety, while the inhab­i­tants eat cur­ry goat and dagger,until it is each and every one’s turn to be slaugh­tered by the mind­less demons that roam the streets unencumbered.

mike beck­les.

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Hypocrite :Delroy Chuck!

I have repeat­ed­ly point­ed out that Jamaica’s police force has for decades been giv­en bas­ket to car­ry water, they have been giv­en an impos­si­ble task and a man­date that is lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble to fulfill.

Jamaica is a small coun­try with lim­it­ed resources but many and var­ied chal­lenges, as such I ful­ly under­stand that there are going to be sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ences with the qual­i­ty of every thing from infra­struc­ture to the deliv­ery of ser­vices when com­pared to devel­oped, and even oth­er devel­op­ing coun­tries. With that said, I do not know of any objec­tive Jamaican, or any observ­er in the know, who would argue that there have not been a sys­tem­at­ic mis­han­dling and ram­pant cor­rup­tion in the way resources are han­dled. As a result, the coun­try has slipped pre­cip­i­tous­ly back­ward , while oth­er coun­tries with few­er resources and even more peo­ple have made sig­nif­i­cant progress toward improv­ing the lives of their pop­u­la­tion. Government Agencies charged with the deliv­ery of ser­vices are a good place to start look­ing at how gov­ern­ment have failed the peo­ple, from health to fire , from agri­cul­ture to labor, from edu­ca­tion to youth and sports, how­ev­er no agency have been exposed to pub­lic scruti­ny and pub­lic ridicule as the Jamaica con­stab­u­lary force has been. This Agency has been set up to fail by Governments of both polit­i­cal par­ties. Both Parties have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly pulled the wool over the eyes of an ever increas­ing­ly gullible pub­lic, a pub­lic that more and more seem inca­pable of think­ing for itself . Politicians have used the police force as their per­son­al valet ser­vice , while at the same time using it as a buffer to ward off crit­i­cism of their cor­rup­tion and abject inep­ti­tude as lead­ers. The pub­lic has been taught to hate police offi­cers , which means hat­ing the rule of law, politi­cians get rich, police offi­cers get killed. There are cor­rupt politi­cians all over the world. but Jamaica takes the cake when it comes to politi­cians that are filthy , dirty, and cor­rupt, most if not all are crim­i­nals parad­ing in suits as decent law-abid­ing cit­i­zens. Of course they get away with doing it because we start­ed with a police force that was designed as Night Watchmen, a force that was sup­posed to be a short pants wear­ing group from the peas­antry that looks out for the inter­est of the rich and con­nect­ed. To date there has not been a com­mis­sion­er /​Chief Constable with balls that will stand up to a politi­cian and say” hell no I will enforce the laws , and if you do not like it I’ll see you in court” Oh wait actu­al­ly that may not be a good idea on sec­ond thought ! the court sys­tem is a lib­er­al cesspool of anti police operatives.

Just after he was ele­vat­ed to the high­est exec­u­tive office in the coun­try, The Jamaica Gleaner was gra­cious in allow­ing me to post an open let­ter to now dis­graced Prime Minister Bruce Golding. In that let­ter I beseeched the new Prime Minister to avoid the temp­ta­tions that goes with pow­er , I implored him to be dif­fer­ent , I begged him to be a new kind of leader , a new kind of Prime Minister that will not be just anoth­er Prime Minister, but the tem­plate by which future prime min­is­ters would be judged . Golding did not heed my call and as result he is resign­ing in dis­grace over his involve­ment in The Christopher Coke débâ­cle, too lit­tle too late Orette Bruce Golding did not live up to the promise of his abil­i­ties, he failed to real­ize the par­a­digm shift in the way peo­ple com­mu­ni­cate , he mis­cal­cu­lat­ed on the amount of pow­er invest­ed in him, he gam­bled and he lost . A few days ago Delroy Chuch Golding’s new Minister of Justice launched a broad­side against the police. Addressing Lay Magistrates and Justices of the peace Chuck at their quar­ter­ly meet­ing in Saint Andrew did not mince words in paint­ing the police as the prob­lem in Jamaica’s crim­i­nal Justice system.

Addressing the Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica St Andrew Chapter’s quar­ter­ly meet­ing at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston yes­ter­day, the min­is­ter said Jamaica’s jus­tice sys­tem was not serv­ing the peo­ple of the coun­try prop­er­ly, and the soon­er cit­i­zens accept­ed that this was the case and moved to address it, the bet­ter it would be for everyone.“Far too many of our young men are being picked up and locked away for no good rea­son, some­times because of per­son­al vendet­ta, per­son­al spite or feel­ings,” stat­ed Chuck. these young men knew their rights, the Ministry of Justice would be more bank­rupt than it is now, because so many of these cas­es could be pros­e­cut­ed suc­cess­ful­ly.” Conceding that the police some­times need­ed this par­tic­u­lar process because of the heart­less­ness of some peo­ple in soci­ety, vio­lent crim­i­nals and the dif­fi­cul­ty in iden­ti­fy­ing per­sons (because they go by main­ly alias­es), he said that was one of the rea­sons the deten­tion time was increased from 24 to 72 hours. While stat­ing that the police need­ed more time to deter­mine if the per­son they had in cus­tody was actu­al­ly the per­son they want­ed, he, how­ev­er, added that there was no right for them to arrest and detain any­one unless they had rea­son­able grounds. “Whether it is 24 or 72 hours, there must be rea­son­able grounds for arrest­ing and detain­ing the indi­vid­ual. It can­not be an arbi­trary arrest that ‘I have the right to arrest you for 72 hours’. That does­n’t exist,” he stat­ed. The min­is­ter added, “When the police arrest and detain some­one, that per­son has a right to hear from the police why he is being arrest­ed and detained. And he can say to the police ‘If you fail to tell me why I am being arrest­ed and detained I am going to pros­e­cute you’. And if the police fail to tell him, then he has a pros­e­cutable case in court.” Reading from the Jamaica Constabulary Force Act, sec­tion 50 (b) (f), the min­is­ter reit­er­at­ed that he was speak­ing from a point of law. Failing the jus­tice sys­tem Stating that far too many JPs just ‘sign off’ and were not doing their due dili­gence by insist­ing that the police con­vince them of the rea­son for the arrest, he told them that in doing so, “you have failed not only that man, but you have failed the jus­tice sys­tem, because you have allowed injus­tice to be met­ed out to the ordi­nary cit­i­zens of this coun­try.” Chuck also charged the lay mag­is­trates and JPs that, at any point, if the police brought some­one before them with­out a con­vinc­ing rea­son for that per­son­’s arrest and deten­tion, then they should refuse to sign the doc­u­ment and advise the police to release the per­son, “and if he refus­es to release the man, you let the com­mis­sion­er or me know”. He told the JPs that he had obtained per­mis­sion from the com­mis­sion­er of police, Owen Ellington, to not only vis­it jail cells, but check log books for rea­sons why Jamaican cit­i­zens were incar­cer­at­ed, and if no good rea­son was in the log book or if they were detained beyond the 72 hours, then they should insist that the indi­vid­ual be released. “If we can weed out some of this abuse of pow­er, you would be sur­prised at how much bet­ter the young men in our com­mu­ni­ty would respect the jus­tice sys­tem,” stat­ed the jus­tice min­is­ter.anastasia.​cunningham@​gleanerjm.​com

If we can weed out some of you filthy politi­cians do you real­ize just how much bet­ter our coun­try will be? Who is the guy try­ing to impress with his dirty hands , I won’t even speak on Ellington , many think this guy is actu­al­ly a good chief con­sta­ble, in my esti­ma­tion he is a spine­less yes-man.

What a hyp­ocrite ! Was it the police who refused to sign the extra­di­tion order allow­ing Dudus to get his just due? or was it Bruce Golding who inject­ed him­self into what clear­ly was a judi­cial mat­ter sand­bag­ging, and obstruct­ing all the way until pub­lic pres­sure forced him to capit­u­late. Did Delroy Chuck take Golding to task for destroy­ing the Justice sys­tem? No Chuck did no such thing , con­verse­ly what he did was to join his cronies in reject­ing Goldings sup­posed let­ter of res­ig­na­tion in their smoke filled back room .The Justice sys­tem of which you speak was destroyed long ago and cops had very lit­tle to do with it , it was Lawyers like you and lib­er­al judges who keep putting your crim­i­nal polit­i­cal cohorts back onto the streets, but most of all med­dling dirty politi­cians like you who attend the funer­al of com­mon crim­i­nal dons that destroyed it.

Tell me Delroy Chuck was it the Police who forced you to have a trib­ute read on your behalf at the funer­al of Andrew Phang Stephens of your North East Saint Andrew con­stituen­cy ?Shot by Police no less , Is that the rea­son you have it out for our cops? You should not have clear­ance to enter a pub­lic library, much less to talk about you are a min­is­ter of Justice,who do you think you are fooling?

Lets get things straight here, you politi­cians will not run Jamaica as your pri­vate play­ground any longer , we will stand up and we will call you out. I am con­ver­sant of the uphill strug­gle in edu­cat­ing a pop­u­la­tion that have been schooled into beleiv­ing in the green and orange, we will how­ev­er con­tin­ue to chip away at your lies , and we will expose you , you can count on it.

Your Boss Bruce Golding once claimed if any­one messed with Laborites it would be ban­garang, I chid­ed Golding in a let­ter in the Gleaner, of course you took me to task about my patri­o­tism and point­ed to Portia’s reck­less rhetoric, as if Portia is rel­e­vant , or that her per­ceived reck­less­ness made Golding’s reck­less­ness legit­i­mate. You Delroy Chuck accused me of being unpa­tri­ot­ic because I left Jamaica, then I chal­lenged you, I asked you to tell me what was your con­tri­bu­tion to nation build­ing com­pared to mine? Like the cow­ard you are, you slith­ered away not to heard from again.

Now elec­tion is com­ing, you are out talk­ing about police abuse it’s time you morons be called to account . You present your­selves as pure , with clean hands to the illit­er­ate mass­es of the peo­ple who are impressed with you , not all peo­ple are fooled by your dis­guis­es, . You, like Golding , and Portia and all the rest are sim­ply oppor­tunis­tic bas­tards who con­tin­ue to pit poor Jamaican peo­ple against their broth­ers because too many are too stu­pid to see you for what you real­ly are . Only in Jamaica would any Justice Minister say those things about the police and not be kicked the hell out of office . You are a damn dis­grace, and should fol­low your boss out the door.

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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:

cour­tesy of the Jamaica dai­ly gleaner

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 IGNORE THIS AT OUR PERIL

Recent Wikileaks cables report­ed on, in Jamaica’s Daily Gleaner ‚sug­gest­ed that 84 Jamaican Nationals have been put on US ter­ror watch list.

All over social media peo­ple are putting their two cents in , mak­ing their voic­es heard , inter­est­ing­ly, most Jamaicans seem to think that the US ter­ror watch list, is a wide net, that scoops up fish, crabs, as well as old boots, there is valid­i­ty to such argu­ments, Congressmen, busi­ness­men and even babies have been blocked from board­ing air­planes because they were sup­pos­ed­ly on a watch list of sorts, right here in the United States.

It would seem that if one does not live in the United States , or does­n’t wish to trav­el there, they should not care what the Americans think. At least those are some of the sen­ti­ments on social media. The legit­i­ma­cy of those argu­ments I will not address here today , but let’s look at what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions are for Jamaica.

Two of Jamaica’s most noto­ri­ous crim­i­nal Gangs the Clans man and One order Gangs are affil­i­at­ed with the two major Political Parties in Jamaica . Last May things came to a head when mem­bers of the Security Forces stormed the Garrison of Tivoli gar­dens the redoubt of Christopher (dudus) Coke who was want­ed by the Americans on alleged Drug and Gun run­ning charges .

When the dust cleared over 70 peo­ple from that com­mu­ni­ty lost their lives, as well as a mem­bers of the Security Forces . One of the Cops who paid the ulti­mate price was a pop­u­lar Police Sargeant Wayne, Henriques ‚both the JCF and JDF were left mourn­ing their dead col­leagues who paid the ulti­mate price in defense of Jamaica.

Harkening back to the report of pos­si­ble links of Jamaicans with ter­ror­ism, the actu­al rea­son I decid­ed to write this blog .

Jamaicans run a great risk of not see­ing the for­est for the trees, irre­spec­tive of whether one like the United States is imma­te­r­i­al , Jamaicans fail to look at this bit of infor­ma­tion with fear and tre­pidi­tion at their per­il. Trinidad a Caribbean neigh­bour has Radical Muslims who have demon­strat­ed that they will use any resource at their dis­pos­al to achieve their polit­i­cal or reli­gious goal​.It is there­fore not beyond the pale to imag­ine that if Jamaican Terrorists have access to explo­sives and oth­er means of mass destruc­tion they are apt to use them and with dev­as­ta­tion consequences.

This brings us to the most recent ter­ror tac­tics that gangs have employed in recent times, that of decap­i­tat­ing their vic­tims, to some who fol­low events around the world this is a favourite method used by Taliban and Al-que­da Terrorists to send a mes­sage to their ene­mies, this strat­e­gy is designed to dri­ve fear and instill ter­ror into the hearts of dis­senters, ( wel­come to jam­rock) This heinous method of killing has been vis­it­ed on three mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty of Lauriston out­side Spanish Town.

On July 18th a 62-year-old farmer Austin George was found dead in a pool of blood in his home ‚neigh­bours had called the Police when they became sus­pi­cious after observ­ing cer­tain things that seemed out-of-place, the method of killing was report­ed­ly the same , he was alleged­ly shot, and his throat slashed.

I have no infor­ma­tion on whether these killings are relat­ed, what seem to be a com­mon thread how­ev­er is the method of killing.!

Is it ritualistic?

Is it designed to instill terror ?

Or are the crim­i­nals run­ning out of bullets?

As a for­mer street cop I am inclined to not take Jamaican crim­i­nals for grant­ed , but I am also not going to give them too much cred­it either.

Law enforce­ment has been slight­ly bet­ter since Coke’s empire was toppled,this is not to sug­gest that he was the only leader of a crim­i­nal empire there ‚far from it , in fact there are still a sig­nif­i­cant hard-core clique of crim­i­nals affil­i­at­ed and sup­port­ed by peo­ple in high places in Jamaica .

I am aware that Jamaican crim­i­nals are blood thirsty dement­ed demons, but I find it inter­est­ing that they would resort to throat cut­ting just to make a point, I believe we are wit­ness­ing some­thing impor­tant here , and I think bul­lets are becom­ing scarce , hence the beheadings.

I have been shout­ing for years to all who will lis­ten that what we have been see­ing play out on the streets of Kingston, Spanish Town, and oth­er killing fields ‚were not sim­ple acts of crim­i­nal­i­ty, but inher­ent­ly, a more sin­is­ter pat­tern of Criminality called Terror.

Under Percival Patterson’s stew­ard­ship Jamaica dete­ri­o­rat­ed to a place most Jamaicans liv­ing abroad are skep­ti­cal to vis­it, and cer­tain­ly will nev­er retire to.Through sys­tem­at­ic incompetence,and gross neglect the Island’s secu­ri­ty forces were reduced to what they were in the 1970’s under the stew­ard­ship of his men­tor Michael Manley.The secu­ri­ty forces were there in name only.Criminals were allowed to run ram­pant , all sec­tors of pub­lic life became con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed with cor­rup­tion, The Americans in the afore­men­tioned cables ‚allud­ed to this lack of will on the part of Patterson to do any­thing about the ram­pant crim­i­nal­i­ty and cor­rup­tion that was engulf­ing the country.

We now know that Patterson was too busy feath­er­ing his nest to care about what was hap­pen­ing. Most peo­ple in oth­er parts of the world would laugh if they knew these men have titles of hon­ourable and most honourable.Information from the Constabulary revealed that not a sin­gle Detective was trained for over ten years ‚under the stew­ard­ship of Percival James Patterson and his pro­tegé, Portia Simpson Miller.The total free pass giv­en to small time crooks has yield­ed dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for Jamaica. Other fac­tors impact­ed what was hap­pen­ing on the ground in Jamaica, America was deport­ing peo­ple back to Jamaica as if there were no tomor­row, and con­tin­ue to do so, some sea­soned and dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals, as well as oth­ers who did noth­ing to deserve depor­ta­tion. Either way they all need to eat.

One deter­rent to crime, is the like­li­hood of get­ting caught. In Jamaica the like­li­hood of get­ting caught , or ever appre­hend­ed for a crime is rather slim. October 1991 I walked away from law enforce­ment , at that time we had a clear up rate of over 70 % in all major crimes, in the 20 years since I left, the JCF by its own admis­sion, only clears up about 7% per­cent of all major crimes . Seven,of that clear up rate the con­vic­tion rate is next to nill . Those who wring their hands and won­der how we got to what is now hap­pen­ing , need look no fur­ther than this para­graph for answers.

Not being held account­able for crimes embold­ened crim­i­nals who have more than enough sup­port from all quarters .

Politicians,dance hall,human rights,clergy,non gov­ern­men­tal Organizations, moth­ers girl­friends and the media to a less­er extent, the lat­ter through either fear, or incom­pe­tence, allowed itself to become pas­sive cheer­lead­ers to the carnage.

The Don cul­ture deliv­ered votes ‚the crim­i­nals in the Parliament kept the Police at bay. The Police large­ly start­ed to care less ‚and many became involved in despi­ca­ble forms of crim­i­nal­i­ty, unimag­in­able to ever asso­ciate with law enforce­ment officers.Outside groups like Amnesty International and their local pro­tegé Jamaicans for jus­tice con­tin­ue to use sub­tle coer­cion to desta­bi­lize the coun­try through a sys­tem­at­ic cam­paign of attack against the mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces, as the streets con­tin­ue to run red with the blood of inno­cent adults and children.

The European Union has made funds avail­able to Jamaicans for Justice. Under the guise of human rights, the local groups have led a sus­tained and con­cert­ed cru­sade against the secu­ri­ty forces , sup­port­ed by some with­in the JLP Administration and the entire oppo­si­tion party. 

One would think that the way for­ward would be through a sys­tem­at­ic build­ing up of the capa­bil­i­ties of the law enforce­ment appa­ra­tus, and the jus­tice sys­tem, allow­ing for the time­ly and ade­quate dis­pen­sa­tion of jus­tice. This in tan­dem with mod­ern­iza­tion of the coun­try’s infra­struc­ture and com­mu­ni­ty devel­ope­ment, that would put peo­ple to work, expand the econ­o­my, and reduce crime, which encour­ages invest­ments which in turn cre­ates more jobs.

In a coun­try of 2.7 mil­lion peo­ple we con­tin­ue to lose almost 2’000 to homi­cide annu­al­ly, oth­ers to migra­tion and it seem that the inno­cent are stuck with nowhere to go , pover­ty, igno­rance , illiteracy,hopelessness, and a rapa­cious oppor­tunis­tic polit­i­cal class that prey on their dis­ad­van­taged state.

If we do not begin to seri­ous­ly take a no-non­sense approach, that includes prison with­out parole,and deal­ing with it as a mil­i­tary mat­ter, with a mil­i­tary solu­tion ‚yes a mil­i­tary solu­tion !!, there will be no future for our coun­try ‚there are no real vic­to­ries with­out sac­ri­fice, the soon­er we as a peo­ple real­ize that the rule of law must be adhered to, and that those who defy the major­i­ty’s desire to live in a civ­i­lized way will be removed one way or anoth­er from soci­ety, the bet­ter our chances will be for a halt on the pre­cip­i­tous slide we are in.

The bleed­ing heart crim­i­nal sup­port­ing char­la­tans at Jamaicans for jus­tice who show up like ambu­lance chas­ing lawyers ‚sniff­ing around at every shoot­ing involv­ing police , look­ing for rel­e­vance, must be made to under­stand that we as a nation will not allow a lob­by group to decide when it comes to our safe­ty and secu­ri­ty, Patterson and Simpson Miller offered our coun­try up on the altar of polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy, allow­ing crim­i­nal rights to take cen­ter stage over the rights of law-abid­ing cit­i­zens, Cops who do their jobs erad­i­cat­ing ter­ror­ists from the coun­try are side­line and demo­nized ‚so that Jamaicans for jus­tice and Carolyn Gomes can receive for­eign funds and a nation­al award, on the blood of war­riors like Wayne Henriques,and all the oth­er cops and mem­bers of our nations military.

This week our coun­try has come full cir­cle we now see the trend of behead­ing take cen­ter stage. Out of shame , and fear of a back­lash, the crim­i­nal serv­ing group, Jamaicans for jus­tice, has come out in con­dem­na­tion against the grue­some behead­ings, this is what peo­ple like myself and oth­ers have been say­ing for years,” when you sup­port them they get emboldened” .

Carolyn Gomes this is now your baby, you and the talk­ing heads on tele­vi­sion, and the idlers who offer noth­ing but hot air like Perkins and oth­ers , this is your baby.

mike beck­les:

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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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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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SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Jamaica’s Police Commissioner has suc­cumbed to pub­lic pres­sure and has final­ly bro­ken his silence in the mat­ter in the mur­der of 17 years old Kingston College stu­dent Khajeel Mais.
Young Mais a pas­sen­ger in a taxi-cab, on his way to a fete at anoth­er High School, lost his life when the cab in which he was a pas­sen­ger was involved in an acci­dent, the cab alleged­ly rear end­ed a lux­u­ry BMW-x6 sport util­i­ty vehicle.
Reports are that the dri­ver of the BMW emerged from his vehi­cle gun in hand, and com­menced to fire on the cab,the dri­ver real­iz­ing that he was being shot at, turned his cab around and fled in the oppo­site direction.
He lat­er real­ized that his young pas­sen­ger was dead, a bul­let to the head, the cab dri­ver escaped phys­i­cal injury.
The state­ment from the Commissioner yes­ter­day defend­ing his Department’s han­dling of this mat­ter was an intel­li­gent, well thought con­cise and delib­er­ate Thesis on Policy and pro­ce­dure, A state­ment I would have been proud of, if the cir­cum­stances of its deliv­ery were different,.
However, despite all of what Mister Ellington has explained he still has not giv­en a plau­si­ble rea­son for the fact that to date the name of the sus­pect has not been released.
We can under­stand the expla­na­tion he gave regard­ing the fact that the sus­pect is a cit­i­zen of the United States and the poten­tial prob­lems releas­ing his name could have caused,we get that, how­ev­er the sus­pect by the Commissioner’s own admis­sion is back in the Country, and in his cus­tody, by all indi­ca­tions the sus­pect will be charged crim­i­nal­ly with the death of young mis­ter Mais,if this is cor­rect, whether he will face an Identification Parade or not there is no log­i­cal rea­son for the pub­lic to be kept in the dark as to his identity.
And while we are at it let’s hope that the JCF is not build­ing a case on the evi­dence gleaned from a poten­tial ID Parade alone.
The Commissioner , despite his expla­na­tions knows ful­ly well that the deci­sion he and the oth­er prin­ci­pals he named made to keep the pub­lic in the dark is one that is disingenuous,and does noth­ing to engen­der trust or respect for an Agency floun­der­ing from lack of both.
When all is said and done the charges made by the pub­lic about a per­ceived dou­ble stan­dard in the Police han­dling of this case still stands , when all the plat­i­tudes are peeled back, what we are left with is noth­ing more than smoke and mirrors.
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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.?