Two police die in unrest in Jamaica's capital Kingston
From the BBC:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/lat...a/10148973.stm
One wonders if the suspect will remain at liberty for long.
Behind the arrest lots of "smoke"
A BBC report, that IMHO poses many questions and has few answers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/lat...a/10386028.stm
I note the police arrest was as Coke was en route to surrender to the US Embassy, allegedly pre-arranged. Now, will he survive to appear in an extradition hearing in Jamaica?
Update and beware of the local brew
I did spot an update on the extradited "drug lord" being sentenced in NYC to twenty years and nearly missed this article based on interviewing the British police officer sent to help Jamaica's police. He has now retired and living there, a not uncommon result of imbibing the Jamaican brew.
Link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...aican-policing
US support to / in Jamaica in May 2010
After a FOI request some documents have been released, with large sections redacted; so the summary may suffice:
Quote:
The documents suggest that U.S. special forces were deployed to Jamaica during the operation to arrest Coke, where they were “developing situational awareness and monitoring developments on the ground,” and regularly reporting back to Southern Command. The unredacted portions of the documents do not make reference to participation by U.S. special forces in the May 24, 2010 assault on Tivoli Gardens. So on my reading, these documents contain the first hard evidence that U.S. forces were deployed in Jamaica at the time of the assault, though it is not clear exactly what they were doing.
Several portions of the documents confirm the U.S.-directed P-3 surveillance flights. The documents note that the flights were observed by “open sources.” This likely refers to an image taken by a photographer for the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper.
Link:http://www.mattathiasschwartz.com/do...thern-command/