well, Atabey, if you read the article above, it bears out my assertion that he would not have been caught. the sensitive information from the state department was leaked to him with advance notice to get lost before the shooting started. he got caught because he is too dumb to realise that he could not stay in jamaica and not get snagged. the place is just too small, and people´s mouths are just too big. so he hung around, meandering all over in some middle school attempt at disguise. had he hauled his ass off to somewhere like Guyana, we would not have been having this conversation.

Dreadlocks,

But I recall you said this dude was long gone and would not be found by the authorities. Am I incorrect?

you are not incorrect. i did say that. my inside sources told me that he was given the heads up to get lost, and thought that he had acted on the advice. the fact that he was nowhere to be found in the aftermath of the mini war led my friends to assume that he had left town. i guess he had not, as it proves.

Gang Suspected in Jamaica Killings
By REUTERS
Published: August 13, 2010

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) — Gunmen in Jamaica killed eight people early Friday in suspected gang killings, the police said.

Police officers later shot dead two of the men suspected in the shootings west of Kingston, the capital. A church was set on fire in the violence on the island, which has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world.

Gunmen killed a mother and her daughters, 11 and 24, and a son, 16, after kicking in the door of their house. They then attacked another house where they killed an older man, along with his son, grandson and a nephew.

The police said the two suspects killed by police officers were members of the Clansman Gang, which has been in a turf war with other gangs over drugs and arms.

The killings were likely to reignite a debate over whether Parliament should have extended a state of emergency that expired last month. It was declared in May when security forces clashed with armed supporters of Christopher Coke, who is suspected of being a drug kingpin.

Ten killed in Jamaica in outburst of gang violence
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By Horace Helps

KINGSTON (Reuters) - Gunmen in Jamaica killed eight people early on Friday in suspected gang killings on the Caribbean tourist island, police said.

Police later shot dead two of the suspected killers following the early morning murders in St. Catherine County, west of the capital Kingston.

A church was set ablaze in the violence on the island, which has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world.

In the first attack, the gunmen killed a mother and her daughters aged 24 and 11 and a son aged 16 after kicking down the door of their home. They then attacked another house where they killed a grandfather, his son, his grandson and a nephew.

Police said the two suspected gunmen killed by police were known members of the Clansman Gang, which operated near the old capital Spanish Town in an ongoing bitter gang turf war over drugs and arms. Five other gang members were being sought.

The killings were likely to reignite debate over whether parliament should have extended last month a state of emergency declared in May when security forces clashed with armed supporters of fugitive accused drugs kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding's government did not receive enough supporting votes in parliament to extend the emergency measures.

Coke, described by U.S. prosecutors as the leader of the "Shower Posse" that murdered hundreds of people during the cocaine wars of the 1980s, was extradited to the United States in June. He has pleaded not guilty, and faces life imprisonment if convicted.

Before Coke was arrested in June after a five-week manhunt, 76 people were killed in four days of gun battles in May when Jamaican police and soldiers stormed the Tivoli Gardens slum in west Kingston in an attempt to capture him.

Some slum residents complained of abuse by the security forces, and Amnesty International called for a thorough investigation of the high number of civilian deaths.

Dread come out come out where ever you are ?

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(RTTNews) - The Jamaican economy contracted by 0.8% compared to the corresponding period last year, the government said on Wednesday.

The Planning Institute of Jamaica said the contraction was mainly due a 1.6% decline in the goods producing industries and a 0.9% decrease in services.

Agriculture, construction and manufacturing all dropped during the quarter, while mining rebounded after five consecutive quarterly declines.

Jamaica's inflation came in at 2.6% in the June quarter, while its budget deficit was at $10.5 billion.

by RTT Staff Writer

For comments and feedback: contact editorial@rttnews.com

Tourism to Jamaica drops after drug-lord clashes
August 26, 2010 | 1:51 pm

Jamaica police headquarters may 2010

Tourism to Jamaica has dropped this year in the aftermath of a bloody government manhunt for alleged drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke, the Jamaica Observer newspaper reports.

Citing data released Wednesday by the Planning Institute of Jamaica, the Observer says stay-over visits to the island dropped 3.3% in June. "Overall, more than 6,300 less individuals stayed over in Jamaica during the quarter when compared to the corresponding period in 2009," the paper said.

The drop is blamed on days-long clashes between supporters of Coke and government forces in late May that left 76 people dead. Foreigners on Jamaica's tourist beaches were not considered in danger during the battles. But the violence brought international media attention to the slums of Kingston, Jamaica's capital, and the role of powerful gang leaders, such as Coke, who control them.

Coke was captured on June 22 (while wearing a disguise) and now faces multiple drug-related charges in the United States.

— Daniel Hernandez in Mexico City

Photo: A damaged police building in Kingston during clashes over Christopher "Dudus" Coke, May 25, 2010. Credit: Mark Brown / European Pressphoto Agency

Caribbean crime-fighting
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Wracked by violence, the islands recruit foreign police chiefs
Jul 15th 2010

ALONG with league tables for sun and sand, English-speaking Caribbean countries dominate the world’s violence rankings. Jamaica suffers the planet’s second-highest murder rate, and St Kitts and Nevis ranks third. Safety concerns have driven the middle classes into gated compounds and tourists into all-inclusive resorts. Crime-fighters compete with rappers for celebrity: most people can name half a dozen lawyers, judges or police chiefs.

Facing growing demands for law and order, the islands’ leaders are now looking abroad for help. This month Trinidad and Tobago tapped Dwayne Gibbs, who hails from Edmonton in frigid north-western Canada, as its new police chief. Antigua and Barbuda has also turned to Canada, hiring a team from the country to head its police. The Jamaican force has three British assistant commissioners.

There is good reason to import foreign managers. Caribbean police forces were set up in colonial times to catch mango thieves and quell native unrest. They are being overwhelmed by well-armed gangs, international drug traffickers and systemic corruption. Absenteeism is one problem; brutality is another. In October Guyanese police applied flaming alcohol to the genitals of a 15-year-old boy held for interrogation; two policemen were later charged with malicious wounding. Moreover, reforms are hard to implement, because many countries designed their constitutions to shield police from politicians’ meddling.

Recruiting outsiders is something of a last-ditch attempt to shake up the islands’ inward-looking policing culture. But it has pitfalls. Avoiding the “brash white foreigner” tag is key. In St Lucia John Broughton, a British commissioner, was charged with assault after a tiff with a long-serving superintendent. He was replaced with a local. “The greatest threat is resistance from local colleagues,” says Mark Shields, a British former police officer in Jamaica. “If you don’t have their hearts and minds, you are on a hiding to nothing.”

Expatriates also have to be vetted just as carefully as locals. In 2007 Guyana appointed Bernard Kerik, a former New York police chief, as the president’s security adviser. He was later sentenced in America to four years in jail for tax evasion and corruption.

Mr Gibbs faces an uphill battle. The police association wants a local for the job. The prime minister’s security adviser complains that $16m a year is already spent on 55 British contract police working on gang-related murders. Administrative hiccups seem likely to delay his contract for several weeks. He may be thankful for that breathing space.

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a thankless job nobody would want