Jamaica sees drop in murders

[little pepper]

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Update - last week, but I only caught up with it a few days ago online & phone calls. The gunman at Fullersfield was shot dead by police (on Sunday, I think). News reports state he wasn't at home when cops went looking and they went to another house and as police entered the gunman pointed a gun at them. Dead. Well, he would be wouldn't he? To point a gun at Jamaican police. They allege they found ammunition etc there too.

Friend who rings up said the night before there'd been a lot of gunshots ringing out all around the place.

[Q3210]

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..and crime is down.
Little Pepper, Ja Dreamin, Grange Hill is the place where Geo Cox has many a time mentioned the street dances where he many of the dancehall patrons of the west frequented.
I wonder if such peaceful and happy times still exist in places like Grange Hill, Westmoreland.

[Tuff Gong]

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The gunman at Fullersfield was shot dead by police (on Sunday, I think). News reports state he wasn't at home when cops went looking and they went to another house and as police entered the gunman pointed a gun at them. Dead. Well, he would be wouldn't he? To point a gun at Jamaican police. They allege they found ammunition etc there too.

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Never fails uh?
The Jamaican Police is very efficient in one respect....taking out Jamaican Citizens.

[Tuff Gong]

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Got milk?

Tamara Scott-Williams
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Just when life on the rock had settled into surfing from one nine-day wonder to another, a little headline during the week stopped me in my tracks and made me go hmmmm and gave me a brand new perspective on things, however temporary.

"More milk, less psychos" the headline read. With last week being National Breastfeeding Week, Dr Eva Lewis-Fuller, director of family services in the Ministry of Health, speaking at the launch of the National Breastfeeding Week at the Spanish Town Hospital said that mothers who breastfeed their babies for up to six months or more are less likely to raise children who are psychopaths.

I wondered about this bit of news when I drove by two 'schoolers' walking on the sidewalk. I watched them walk by a homeless person lying on the sidewalk. And then I saw them feign kicking him and shooting him with a handgun. When they caught up with me at the traffic light, I had to ask them about what they were doing.

Why would they pretend to kick or shoot some defenseless, mentally disturbed man? I half expected to hear that the man often bothered them when they walked to and from school, and so they were trying to warn him off somehow. Instead I got: "A nuh nutten. A jus a likkle fun."

A little deviant "fun" if you ask me. Maternal deprivation, according to studies, has shown to give rise to deviant behaviour and if Dr Lewis-Fuller is right, and breastfed babes are less likely to become psychopaths, I am reasonably sure these two boys never 'got milk'.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20060923t170000-0500_113218_obs_got_milk__.asp

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Gang of children killing homeless people

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Homicide detectives in the Kingston Central and Kingston West police divisions are trying to locate a gang of homeless children who are suspected of killing street people in downtown Kingston.
Police report that since last month six street people were murdered.

The body of a homeless man was found by the Denham Town police earlier this week. The police say a large rock and a piece of cloth was found next to the body of the unidentified man.
According to head of the Kingston West police division, Deputy Superintendent Delroy Hewitt, the murders were all committed in the same fashion.

"We found big stones beside the bodies and their heads were bashed in. There were no gunshot or stab wounds," DSP Hewitt told the Sunday Observer.

The police say the gang of children are between 10 and 15 years old and are known to roam the streets late at nights. According to one cop, the gang was suspected of setting street people on fire but have raised their level of cruelty after none of their victims died.
DSP Hewitt said the police were thoroughly investigating the killings with a view of making arrests soon.

"We are hoping to make some early inroads as our investigators have been doing a lot of groundwork. However, people who know them are fearful to come forward and make a statement," DSP Hewitt said.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html...LESS_PEOPLE.asp

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Conductor killed for parting fighting schoolgirls

Sunday, October 08, 2006

A cat fight between two schoolgirls on a minibus on Thursday ended with the murder of the conductor who was trying to part the fighting students.

The dead man has been identified as 18-year-old Craig Gregory of Rhoden Crescent in Kingston.

Police say Rhoden was working on the public passenger bus which plies the downtown Kingston to Waterhouse route when the schoolgirls began fighting. Rhoden allegedly tried to pull the girls apart before one of them exited the vehicle.
<font color="red">The girl allegedly blamed the conductor for preventing her from stabbing her opponent and returned with two men who dragged Rhoden off the bus.

He was taken to nearby premises near the intersection of Hill Road and Olympic Way, just metres from the Olympic Gardens Police station, and shot several times.</font>
Rhoden died while being treated at the Kingston Public Hospital.
He is the seventh person to be killed in six days in the St Andrew South police division.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html...SCHOOLGIRLS.asp