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26 civilians dead, JCF reports
Jamaica Observer
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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THE Jamaica Constabulary Force is reporting that 26 civilians have been killed and 25 injured in the West Kingston operation.
The report — the first official confirmation from the police — was issued this morning.
One member of the security forces was also killed and seven injured, the police said.
The police said those killed were mostly males and their bodies were recovered from areas close to barricades, building entrances and gullies running through Tivoli Gardens. In addition to injuries and fatalities, 211 people including six women were detained.
The security forces are also reporting seizures of firearms, ammunition, binoculars, army fatigues and ballistic vests.
The operations which include building searches will continue and the public will be informed of the outcome, the police said.
Let meh post it fuh allyuh again 
Tivoli residents plead
Residents of Tivoli Gardens in west Kingston yesterday painted a bloody picture of what was taking place as the security forces moved in on the community.
While talking to THE STAR via cellular phone, the residents literally cried for mercy as loud explosions, which they claimed were bombs, could be heard in the background.
"Yu nuh hear dat? Is a next bomb dat eno, dem a kill wi off, call Bruce fi wi nuh please. Please call Bruce, a him alone can mek dem stop," one resident said as other females around her screamed for murder.
She then added, "Please mek Bruce come dung yah, wi cyaa tek it no more."
The loud explosions helped to amplify the residents stories of what was taking place between the security forces and thugs from the community.
The residents were begging for the intervention of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, their member of parliament.
Even known gunmen admitted to THE STAR that the operation was much more than they bargained for.
One thug who claimed to have just gone to hide his gun and was taking a break said; "Mi naw lie, di bway dem a give it to wi ... A pure bomb dem a drop, dem a deal wid wi a way."
Another thug went on to claim that a decision was made to hide some of the weapons some time before the operation started and this led to the military getting into the community a bit easier.
"Dem a gwaan wicked, but pon a level a jus tru wi lock some a di ting dem ... Anyhow wi did decide fi keep out everything a woulda judgement, dem couldn't get in so easy," he told THE STAR. Some of the thugs also left the community.
In describing what he saw, another resident recalled, "Jah kno mi look out a Java (a section of the community) and a bout 50 man mi see lie dung ... Man face gone, some no have nuh foot, bone a push through dem ribs and all kinda tings."
He said that among the dead persons in the community were women and children. The residents claimed that rumours that Dudus was held, and a man said to be second-in-command of Tivoli was killed, were untrue.
They said that Dudus was not even in the community during the operation which began about midday. Up to press time last night, though an official number was not released, scores of residents were said to have been fatally wounded.
A release from the Constabulary Communication Network yesterday stated that during the operation seven members of the security forces were injured. Six of the seven were shot, one succumbed to his injuries. The other was injured in an accident.
The security forces had gone on the offensive as they tried to take control of the community, which was being overrun with lawlessness, as criminals there prepared for what they called a war by mounting blockades to entrances, setting traps and turning the place into a fortress.
The thugs and residents had said that they were prepared to die for their beloved leader, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke who is wanted in the United States to answer to gun and drug-running charges.
RoTaRyBoYz wrote:Who remember Mr Adams??
Parody of Mr Adams talking about Tivoli & Mt View men that have gun that come from space
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga criticised the Government yesterday for betraying its vow to protect residents of embattled Tivoli Gardens, arguing that the assault by the security forces had caused widespread suffering for the most vulnerable.
Seaga, the former member of parliament for West Kingston who has been praised as the ideological architect of Tivoli Gardens, demanded that the lockdown be lifted to grant trapped residents access to food and medication.
"I am absolutely not happy. This is not what the minister of national security promised. He promised the people that they would not be harmed, and now they are fearful and starving for food and drink," he told The Gleaner yesterday.
"The Government should lift the embargo they have over the area and allow the people to leave to look for food and drink," he continued.
Seaga, who represented the West Kingston constituency - in which Tivoli Gardens is located - for more than 40 years, said he had been receiving calls from his former constituents about their ordeal.
"People have been calling for food and water, that they are not allowed to leave, and that they are penned in. It is a desperate situation and they are calling me. But I am powerless. I tell them to contact their member of parliament (Bruce Golding)," he said.
The army and the police attacked gunmen who had barricaded Tivoli to prevent them from arresting suspected drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
Seaga was the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for more than 30 years and was replaced in 2005 by Golding, the current prime minister, who represents Tivoli Gardens in Parliament.
Seaga, who is still involved in the affairs of Tivoli Gardens through his chairmanship of its football team, said the ongoing offensive echoed the July 2001 security operation, which claimed more than two dozen lives.
Then, security forces, led by retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams, invaded Tivoli, looking for gunmen and weapons.
Seaga had criticised Adams' operation as "an atrocity of the worst order".
The ex-prime minister also rejected claims that he was responsible for Tivoli Gardens morphing into what former army chief Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin described as "the mother of all garrisons". Tivoli has been labelled an untouchable crime den from which gangsters have extorted businesses, peddled drugs and killed mercilessly.
Said Seaga of that assessment: "The work that I put in was not to create any community of that sort. What I wanted to do was to create a model community, including all the social amenities you would want. These included a maternity centre, a basic school and a primary school. This is what I created."
Seaga, who is a distinguished fellow of the University of the West Indies, said the genesis of Tivoli's notoriety lay in its resistance to strongmen from adjoining areas who felt it might sway People's National Party supporters to switch to the JLP.
He said Tivoli Gardens residents had been forced to defend themselves in the past.
"You don't make decisions for the people of West Kingston. There is not one person in Jamaica who could make a decision for them, and the people made a decision to defend themselves. If it was I there, or if Santa Claus was there, they would have made the same natural decision to defend themselves," he said.
When asked if he had received any information about the whereabouts of Coke, the subject of the operation, Seaga said, "I haven't got a clue. Mr Coke is not my concern. My concern is the people."
Mounting casualties from the massive offensive by the security forces on Tivoli Gardens have put morgues on the brink of overflowing.
Ferdinand Madden, chief executive of Madden's Funeral Supplies and Crematorium, told The Gleaner yesterday evening that his North Street morgue could only accommodate approximately 10 more bodies. An unidentified East Street funeral parlour, which is working in conjunction with Madden's, could only accept another eight bodies, he said.
"I am appealing to have post-mortems done urgently," Madden said of bodies linked to clashes outside the west Kingston green zone, which have compounded the problem.
However, Karl Angell, the media point man of the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), insisted that morgues would not be overwhelmed by the body count.
"In terms of the morgues and their ability to cope," Angell said, "they have been coping fairly well."
Angell, along with Information Minister Daryl Vaz, was addressing a late-afternoon press conference yesterday.
Jamaica's Customs Department fast-tracked delivery of a container late yesterday to ease the pile-up.
The official body count remained at 44 up until press time yesterday, but there were unconfirmed reports of dozens more fatalities. More than 40 persons have been injured. And at least 260 persons have been detained.
The violence was sparked by an incursion by the police and army in their bid to arrest accused crime boss Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, who is wanted by the United States on drug-trafficking and gunrunning charges.
Angell blunted attempts by journalists who have been engaged in tooth-pulling efforts to get information from the war zone. Word from the field only started trickling in on Tuesday.
The CCN spokesman refused to answer questions about the whereabouts of Coke, but The Gleaner has learnt that an islandwide manhunt has been launched. The police searched Coke's Plantation Heights home in upper St Andrew and also a residence at 2 North in Portmore, St Catherine.
Angell also said he could not comment in detail on the operation, hinting that doing so might compromise security sensitivities.
"These matters are usually investigated afterwards, and an inquiry is usually done," Angell.
Sporadic gunfights continued yesterday in a few sections of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town, as thugs loyal to Coke led a determined but withering resistance.
Meanwhile, there were no violent clashes in the general downtown business district as storeowners ventured there to view stores, many of which had been looted during the civil unrest. Shoppers stayed away but a few market vendors tried to sell produce which had been abandoned at the weekend.
The central bank and other institutions, such as the finance ministry, remained closed yesterday.
$32m in contracts for Tivoli repairs
Published: Thursday | July 23, 2009
A company whose directors include Tivoli Gardens community leader Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and west Kingston businessman Justin O'Gilvie has been given the green light for three government contracts valued at $32 million.
The National Contracts Commission in June approved the contracts with Incomparable Enterprises Limited for repairs to buildings in Tivoli Gardens.
One of the contracts, valued at $10.7 million, is for repairs and waterproofing to the slab roofs along the Bustamante Highway section within the Tivoli Gardens housing scheme.
The other contracts, which total $21.3 million, are for repairs to roofs at Levy Path and Seaga Boulevard, also in the community. All three were given out by the Ministry of Water and Housing through open tender.
This is not the first time that Incomparable Enterprises will be doing work for the Government since the start of this year.
In January, the company was awarded a contract valued at $1.3 million, under the emergency procurement process, to transport cover materials from Bull Bay to extinguish a fire at the Riverton City landfill.
The company was also involved in recent repairs to the Mother White Gully on Spanish Town Road.
RASC wrote:One thing about Jamaica, as backward as it maybe... those two police officers who stand out to me...
ADAMS(retired) + BIGGA FORD(active)
Are some real old school gun slinging bad men police officers.
SKIP TO 1:10
Adams to me was more extreme, Seen that man in full armour before, on the front lines with his boys bussing shots! We need a new flying squad in T&T like the old days.
AbstractPoetic wrote:Allyuh stay there and feel he still in Jamaica. He had months to plan his escape AND had the support of political leaders to do so.
I wonder why the USA isn't also hounding the Mexican government to extradite their druglords?
RASC wrote:One thing about Jamaica, as backward as it maybe... those two police officers who stand out to me...
ADAMS(retired) + BIGGA FORD(active)
Are some real old school gun slinging bad men police officers.
SKIP TO 1:10
Adams to me was more extreme, Seen that man in full armour before, on the front lines with his boys bussing shots! We need a new flying squad in T&T like the old days.
geodude wrote:first they say Dudus is them pres and them would die for the man, then them calling ppl and begging them to stop the military and police "oo lard them ah kill off the whole ah we"
make up alluh mind nah ppl.
Tivoli Gardens
Located on Jamaica's south-eastern coast, far from tourist hub in north.
Built in late 1960s on grounds of a cleared dump known as the Dungle or "dung hill"
Warren-like public housing project with population of about 25,000
One of Jamaica's notorious "garrison" slums - described as "a state within a state"
Power base of PM Bruce Golding's West Kingston constituency
Invaded in 2001 by security forces in search of illegal weapons; 25 people killed in three-day stand-off
geodude wrote:first they say Dudus is them pres and them would die for the man, then them calling ppl and begging them to stop the military and police "oo lard them ah kill off the whole ah we"
make up alluh mind nah ppl.
