Jamaica (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

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?

[AdamG]

Now, will he survive to appear in an extradition hearing in Jamaica?

Depends on what he knows that could bring down other folks, doesn't it?
Place your bets now.

“Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.”

[davidbfpo]

BBC News just had a news clip showing him in US custody and I think a voice said en route to New York. Not that anything odd ever happens in a Federal prison.

[AdamG]

This tale is turning into a Guy Ritchie screenplay.

Wearing an Afro wig, baseball cap, woman’s clothes and spectacles, this was the appearance of the kingpin at the centre of violence in Jamaica when he was finally arrested.

Photo and more guffaws at : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...#ixzz0s09TVM45

[Jedburgh]

SAS, 2 Nov 10: Confronting the Don: The Political Economy of Gang Violence in Jamaica

....This report presents an overview of the history, prevalence, and distribution of gangs, focusing in particular on their involvement in international drug and arms trafficking and the possible influence of deportees from the United States. It finds that there is a dense social web connecting highly organized, transnational gangs to the loosely organized gangs whose activities are often indistinguishable from broader community and interpersonal violence. It finds that contemporary gangs in Jamaica have their roots in the organized political violence of the 1940s. Though the political facilitation of crime has declined since the country’s bloodiest national elections in 1980, it remains an enduring—though less overt—force. The persistent facilitation of gang activity by politicians continues to hinder targeted violence reduction efforts, despite the government’s vociferous public condemnation of crime and violence and official support of both punitive and social approaches to violence reduction....