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CRAZINESS in Jamaica today!!!!! — Brooklynian

CRAZINESS in Jamaica today!!!!!

outside child
outside child
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff






http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Roadblocks-increase--gunshots-blaze-in-Kingston

UPDATE: Roadblocks increase, gunshots loud in West Kingston

By KIMMO MATTHEWS

Sunday, May 23, 2010


This is one of the many roadblocks mounted in downtown Kingston today. The roadblock, made from scrap items including a concrete cross, has totally blocked access to a section of Spanish Town Road. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)

ROADBLOCKS reaching as far as Heroes Circle were set up in Kingston this morning, and police came under fire as they tried to clear the debris.

At the Admiral Town Police Station on Slipe Pen Road, cops said they were on high alert, following attacks on cops from that station who tried to help clear the roadblocks.

The Observer news team is unable to get to the Denham Town Police Station which serves the Tivoli Gardens community because of roadblocks along Spanish Town Road.

The sound of gunshots can, however, be heard from the Observer's location near the St Andrew Technical High School.

The area has been tense since Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced last week that the process had been started to facilitate the extradition of Tivoli Gardens Don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

Since then, Tivoli and Denham Town residents have mounted roadblocks barricading their communities from the police who need to enter to serve an arrest warrant on Coke [/img]
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  • outside child
    outside child
    Bunny Wailer already dropped a song on it!



    It's not gonna be easy for them to drop down and snatch up the President out of Tivoli....
  • outside child
    outside child
    more:

    http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100523/lead/lead1.html
  • outside child
    outside child
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    Check the newspaper's home page, overflowing with headlines about it:

    http://www.jamaicaobserver.com

    So basically he's the son of a former major Jamaican mafia drug lord, and is being charged with the same himself by a Federal Court here in NY that has filed for extradition of him from Jamaica to NY to stand trial.

    And Jamaica has just announced that it will honor the extradition request, which means sending police to apprehend this guy and handing him over to US authorities.

    Only problem is, the gov't didn't prepare the local police before announcing this, so the police on the ground there are getting their a**es kicked by the community that refuses to hand him over (or let police in anywhere near him) and calls him The President.

    What a mess.
  • outside child
    outside child
    The people took over 3 police stations and burned one down!!!! The cops ran out of bullets and had to flee!
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    ***edited to fix lyrics with actual song

    This all sounds a bit familiar...

  • droppingshadows
    droppingshadows
    BBC says Jamaica declared a state of emergency.......

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8699834.stm

    CNN has it too

    http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/23/jamaica/
  • jack krohn
    jack krohn
    It's only a matter of time before someone, somehow, will blame all of this on the evil United States!
  • outside child
    outside child
    Outside Child wrote: The people took over 3 police stations and burned one down!!!! The cops ran out of bullets and had to flee!
    Now they burned down a next police station and are stealing the cop cars to block the roads!!!

    I getting constant updates here: http://www.facebook.com/onthegroundnews

    and live streaming video here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jamaipanese
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    all over Twitter
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    fascinating implications:

    [quote=http://www.facebook.com/onthegroundnews>On the Ground News Reports - Confirmed: Tivoli Gardens kingpin Christopher 'Dudus" Coke wants to waive rights to be tried in Jamaica and wants to be handed over to US Marshals and flown directly to the United States of America where he is wanted for drug and gun running charges

    +
    Dale Stephenson - He knows that a lot of people want him dead. Because if he speaks the house of cards drops. So there would most likely be an 'accident' while he's in J'Can custody like what happened with his father
  • outside child
    outside child
    Lawd the photoshops already

    image
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    Outside Child wrote: Now they burned down a next police station and are stealing the cop cars to block the roads!!!
    Well, that certainly didn't work as intended...

    [quote=http://www.facebook.com/onthegroundnews>On the Ground News Reports - Unconfirmed: Stolen police car recovered. Reports are that it was abandoned by gunmen after they came under fire by marauding gunmen who thought they were policemen
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    man o man...

    [quote=http://www.facebook.com/onthegroundnews>On the Ground News Reports - Corroborated and Confirmed: Several male vendors from rural Jamaica were beaten and their produce confiscated by thugs on Friday because they refused to help stack sand bags to help barricade Tivoli Gardens
  • outside child
    outside child
    Just spoke to friend in Kingston

    She work around the Tivoli area and they shut down the town and told her and co-workers to go home. She's afraid she may not be able to go to work until everything is resolved. That means no $$$

    She also said...cats are making barricades and throwing up chain link fences then linking the fence to the power lines so no one can touch them joints image
  • outside child
    outside child
    Well, it has been getting a lot worse through the night :-( During the day it was just in the one area, but through the night it has been spreading fast and far like wildfire!
    Areas with no connection to Dudus at all people just going wild everywhere there now :-(
  • outside child
    outside child
    Well now it got SUPER UGLY they are dropping bombs on Tivoli here is a picture

    image

    :shock:
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    I am guessing this will continue to not get much mention in the news in most of America unless actual US forces end up on the ground (rumors claim they are nearby, and perhaps helping with recon aircraft).

    Now if this place were named Olive Gardens, on the other hand...
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    Threatening to withhold our rightful access unlimited bread sticks and salad would be taken very seriously.

    ...let 'em keep their drug czar that poisons our youth.

    Jamaica's government has been teetering for a long time.

    I hope we don't end up with a country as chaotic and poor as Haiti.
  • outside child
    outside child
    jeffrey wrote: I am guessing this will continue to not get much mention in the news in most of America unless actual US forces end up on the ground (rumors claim they are nearby, and perhaps helping with recon aircraft).

    Now if this place were named Olive Gardens, on the other hand...
    Yeah sad but true :( US state dept giving press conference now about closing the embassy
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    ....what a mess. I hope whatever the US ends up doing actually helps the situation.

    Not having a government is often worse than having one. sheesh
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    If we do get directly involved, let us pray that neither side (US/Jamaican forces or paramilitary warlord opposition) is reading from the Somalia playbook...unless to completely avoid all that.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    or the Haiti
    or the Iraq
    or the Lebannon
    or the Panama
    or the El Salvador
    or the Nicaragua
    or the Oman
    or the Phillipines

    I'm sure I left out more than a few.

    (extra points if you guess who's father was a USMC Col)
  • homeowner
    homeowner
    jeffrey wrote: If we do get directly involved, let us pray that neither side (US/Jamaican forces or paramilitary warlord opposition) is reading from the Somalia playbook...unless to completely avoid all that.
    My take is that the Jamaican people would not permit what happened in Somlia to happen in their country. While the drug trade is fierce, there are civilians that would step up and not allow themselves to be "governed" by drug warlords.

    Not to mention that tourism is their number one industry. There will be a backlash from the grassroots shortly.
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    I've been waiting for any sort of comment re: Jamaica to appear from @StateDept on Twitter, but there's nothing about it on there yet.

    Guess they are holding back from using it as a first line of basic info whenever stuff breaks out around the world.

    Also waiting to see what comments Clinton (Hillary) and Obama make about it.

    It'd be odd not to hear anything from either of them about this today.
  • outside child
    outside child
    jeffrey wrote: I've been waiting for any sort of comment re: Jamaica to appear from @StateDept on Twitter, but there's nothing about it on there yet.

    Guess they are holding back from using it as a first line of basic info whenever stuff breaks out around the world.

    Also waiting to see what comments Clinton (Hillary) and Obama make about it.

    It'd be odd not to hear anything from either of them about this today.
    Yeah they gonna have to come with a statement soon especially since they started and caused all of this
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    ...and also since the State Dep't said there were NO extradition talks scheduled today with Dudus' lawyers, despite the other side saying they were planned for 11am today.
  • outside child
    outside child
    15 civilians dead in Tivoli including children and a famous footballer and 3 soldiers dead too this is horrible :-(
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    can we surround him and play rock music at him until he surrenders?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    No whynot, these days that's only used for folks who chose to live next to Mission Dolores.
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