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Feb 17th, 2004 - 18:05:05 |
Jamaican Crusader
Normality has been largely restored to Jamaica's old capital, Spanish Town. Jamaica is deemed a Christian nation. Yesterday there was a grand gospel concert and intercessional prayer in the Spanish Town bus terminus where religious differences didnot seem to matter.
All the major religious denominations were represented.With the news all tuned to Spanish Town gunfire, a burgeoning murder rate, innocent deaths and economic crisis, there's a ray of sunshine in sunny Jamaica that has received little media coverage: the Jamaica Tourist Board, guardian and promoter of your most important industry, is on a significant upswing
Feb 3rd, 2004 - 10:10:32 |
Jamaican Crusader
Yesterday i gave a run down of the evens that are taking place in Jamaica. Today i took a photo from the news. Here is a scene from the riots that are occuring in Spanish Town Jamaica.
Feb 2nd, 2004 - 18:08:55 |
Jamaican Crusader
At this point there has been a vast breakthrough in my study. Based on the upsurge of violence in St.Catherine, Jamaica, I have decided to broaden the scope to include all major areas experiencing gang related violence. The present situation in Spanish Town sees the removal of a 'Don" from the muncipiality and an automatic rise in violent crimes. This shows a sheer difference of opinion and intolerance thereof, between what the government and citizens in that area deem as justice. In general,Dons are members of communities in inner cities who have ties with outside the communities. Whether or not these ties are legal, they are used to the general 'good' of teh citizens. For example, if drugs are smuggled, the proceeds are used to embark on community projects and so on.
Since there is very little that the Jamaican Government is willing to do for these inner city communities, the citizens of these areas deem their Dons as saviours and the removal of their Dons turn out to be a bloody game of hide and shoot.
The fact of the matter is that, there is a sense of enmity that exists between rival communities. they are rivals on political basis, and this seems to dictate all other affairs. The Dons act as a form of pacifier, go-between and mediator between communities, and a tight sense of tribalism is sustained.
There is nothing that the government can do to stop the obvious culture of DOns so my solution is a peacful co-existence between Dons and the government is maintaining social order.
The following is an excerpt from a local paper in Jamaica (Daily Gleaner, Feb. 2, 2004)
"CLAIMS OF HEATHER ROBINSON
He was also responding to the renewed focus on the claims of Heather Robinson, a former PNP MP for St. Catherine South Central, who quit in 1996 because of what she said was her objection to "hugging up gunmen."
Mr. Patterson has publicly distanced his party from the violence, attributed by the police to a gang war between rivals 'One Order' and 'Clans-man' gangs, which has been fought over the last several months in the Old Capital. The 'Clansman' gang is alleged to have ties with the PNP; the 'One Order' gang is said to have links to the Jamaica Labour Party.
During yesterday's broadcast, Mr. Patterson said it was a 'very sad fact' that most of the Jamaican people who live in the communities that were being torn apart by violence knew who the gunmen were and where they could be found."
Sep 24th, 2003 - 15:09:56 |
Jamaican Crusader
Well, it was no piece of cake being in the inner city. The people were mostly intolerant with what i had to ask them and showed apathy to the entire research. Meeting with government officials was not a challenge, but getting help is still very difficult. On the University Campus where i attend, i am getting much support. I know this will be a successful project indeed.
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