lol well, ah di link itself mi did ah refer unnu tuh- ano any particular video mi ah direct unnu tuh...di one deh jus happen fe deh deh lol...nuff videos/music pon di site deh was di point lol...
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: A so it gwaan!!..T&R u caan drop like dat???...
fimi whinin and bubblin skills dem deh pon point star but mi fe tell yuh...mi naaaaahhh guh drop ina nuh splits pon nuh floor and mi naaaaaahh guh dutty up mi head top pon nobaday floor nor grung headtop ah ting weh reserve fe di bedroom Posts: 3446 | From: U.S. by way of JA by way of Africa | Registered: Jan 2010
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lol well, ah di link itself mi did ah refer unnu tuh- ano any particular video mi ah direct unnu tuh...di one deh jus happen fe deh deh lol...nuff videos/music pon di site deh was di point lol...
mi nuh ina watch di next ooman enuh....mi is a ooman, so is mon mi prefer fe look set mi yeye pon
lol!! Mi neva know seh yuh a sistren atall, pawdn mi. Yea, mi was tinkin is a good site fi music/video but the usual man ting mi jus get fixated pan the bubblin, yuh zeet. Tx fi dah link deh still.
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: A so it gwaan!!..T&R u caan drop like dat???...
fimi whinin and bubblin skills dem deh pon point star but mi fe tell yuh...mi naaaaahhh guh drop ina nuh splits pon nuh floor and mi naaaaaahh guh dutty up mi head top pon nobaday floor nor grung headtop ah ting weh reserve fe di bedroom
You know seh mi did a guh ask di same question as anansi, lol! Mmmhmm, sistren, mi hear yuh.
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lol well, ah di link itself mi did ah refer unnu tuh- ano any particular video mi ah direct unnu tuh...di one deh jus happen fe deh deh lol...nuff videos/music pon di site deh was di point lol...
mi nuh ina watch di next ooman enuh....mi is a ooman, so is mon mi prefer fe look set mi yeye pon
lol!! Mi neva know seh yuh a sistren atall, pawdn mi.
Yuh good mon now yuh know
Yea, mi was tinkin is a good site fi music/video but the usual man ting mi jus get fixated pan the bubblin, yuh zeet.
mi ovas
Tx fi dah link deh still.
no problem
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VETERAN journalist Wilmot ‘Motty’ Perkins died peacefully at his home shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, Power 106 radio reported a short while ago.
Perkins, who had been ailing for a short while, hosted his own talk show — Perkins On Line — on the station since April 2002.
Regarded as one of Jamaica’s most incisive journalists, Perkins started his career in journalism as a reporter at The Gleaner.
He started his radio career hosting What’s your Grouse on RJR in 1960. A few years later he took a short break from the airwaves and went into farming.
He returned to radio in the 1970s, hosting the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation’s (JBC’s) popular call-in programme Public Eye. He later hosted Hot Line on RJR and then Straight Talk on KLAS FM 89, before hosting Perkins On Line on Hot 102 FM.
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Markus Myrie expands on Buju Banton's legacy
HAVING a famous father like Buju Banton does not necessarily guarantee your musical exploits smooth sailing. But for Markus Myrie, producing music is something he always wanted to pursue.
At 17, the lanky Myrie is Buju's eldest son. He has been making waves with productions on his Markus Records label, which is based at his father's Gargamel studio off Red Hills Road in St Andrew.
"Markus Records is bringing its own style, its own sound and just quality music to the game. I'm just doing me and encouraging others to give a listening ear to my productions," Myrie told Splash this week.
The label made its production debut with the Beating Stick rhythm last October. However, it is its latest effort, the 5th Gear beat that has been making noise, not only in Jamaica but in ethnic markets overseas.
"The 5th Gear has proven itself to be an even better project and is getting very good rotation worldwide," Myrie said.
Aside from rhythm projects, he has worked on a number of songs including I Octane's Mama Food Put On, Whine Me and Why Life Nuh Sweet by Blak Ryno, and Tongue Ring by Ninja Kid.
He has also produced a handful of songs for his father who is serving a 10-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking.
He spoke of his favourite Buju Banton song.
"It's Close One Yesterday, simply because it is a very calm, soothing, uplifting song and it helps me to 'keep strong and hold a firm meditation'."
Markus Myrie got involved in music production after completing the requisite educational training. He attended Wolmer's Prep School and later Meadowbrook High. After gaining passes in CXC, he went to the Creative Production and Training Centre where he pursued an engineering course.
Even with his father's reputation in the music industry, it has not been an easy road for Myrie.
"It wasn't the same situation with every artiste; some were easy to get, some took more time and some are still taking time," he said. "It isn't as hard, but not as easy as one would like to believe."
Buju Banton, who started out in the business at around the same age, did not always embrace his son's musical ambitions.
"He didn't want me to pursue music as a career unless it was the business part of it," Myrie revealed.
Markus Records has quite a lot on its plate for the next few months.
According to its founder, a number of projects will be released, but mostly singles. One of those, Lose Your Love, by his father, will be released on Valentine's Day.
For Markus Myrie, the song is a personal statement.
"Lose Your Love was recorded when I went to visit him while he was out on bail. It's a very beautiful song and I know everyone will love it," he said.
The First American Freedom Fighter by William Loren Katz on February 2, 2012
Hatuey
This February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. However, Hatuey deserves recognition as their earliest ideological ancestor and great forerunner.
Little is known about Hatuey, a Taino Cacique [leader], not his date of birth, nor exactly when he first led his forces into battle. But key elements of his story have come down to us from Bishop Las Casas, the Dominican Priest, who became Spain’s “Defender of the Indians.” On February 2, 1512, Las Casas was in Cuba when Hatuey died at the hands of the European invaders.
Hatuey’s armed resistance began on the island of Hispaniola [today Haiti and the Dominican Republic] during the age of Columbus. It probably increased after 1502 when a fleet of 30 Spanish ships brought over the new Governor Nicolas de Ovando, hundreds of Spanish settlers and a number of enslaved Africans to pursue Spain’s search for gold.
But oppression rarely goes as planned. Before the year was over Governor Ovando complained to King Ferdinand that the enslaved Africans “fled among the Indians, taught them bad customs, and could not be captured.” The last four words reveal more than his problem with disobedient servants or his difficulty of retrieving runaways in a rainforest. Ovando is probably describing the formation of the first American rainbow coalition: Hatuey and his followers are greeting and embracing the runaway Africans as allies.
After about a decade of armed resistance in Hispaniola, in 1511 Hatuey and 400 of his followers climbed into canoes and headed to Cuba. His plan was not escape but to mobilize fellow Caribbean islanders against the bearded intruders, their lust for gold, and the slavery, misery and death their invasion brought.
In Cuba Hatuey’s clear message was recorded by Las Casas: the intruders “worship gold,” “fight and kill,” “usurp our land and makes us slaves” For gold, slaves and land “they fight and kill; for these they persecute us and that is why we have to throw them into the sea….”
Hatuey’s forces had no sooner begun to mobilize Cubans when well-armed Spaniards under Diego Velásquez landed in Cuba. (One was Hernán Cortés who would conquer Mexico.) Hatuey’s strategy to attack, guerilla fashion, and then retreat to the hills and regroup for the next attack, kept the Spaniards pinned down at their fort at Baracoa for at least three months.
But finally a Spanish offensive overwhelmed Hatuey and his troops. On February 2, 1512, Hatuey was led out for a public execution. Las Casas described the scene:
“When tied to the stake, the cacique Hatuey was told by a Franciscan friar who was present . . . something about the God of the Christians and of the articles of Faith. And he was told what he could do in the brief time that remained to him, in order to be saved and go to heaven. The Cacique, had never heard any of this before, and was told he would go to Inferno where, if he did not adopt the Christian faith, he would suffer eternal torment, asked the Franciscan friar if Christians all went to Heaven. When told that they did he said he would prefer to go to Hell.”
As the first freedom fighter of the Americas, Hatuey not only united Africans and Indigenous people against the invaders, but in bringing his fighters from Hispaniola to Cuba, he initiated the first pan-American struggle for independence from colonialism.
Today a statue in Cuba celebrates Hatuey as a national hero, its first great liberator. He was more than that. He was the first of the heroic American freedom fighters whose contributions led to 1776, to the revolution in Haiti, and to Simon Bolivar who also sought to liberate all of the Americas from Spain.
One could argue that Hatuey was the first to have ignited the American spirit of liberty and independence that would circle the globe for the next five hundred years.
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Good info. Had never heard of this guy before. He deserves the title "freedom fighter." Using the designation "American" messes with some minds too..
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quote:Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: Good info. Had never heard of this guy before. He deserves the title "freedom fighter." Using the designation "American" messes with some minds too..
Yeah I agree, but I also get why that designation, so it doesn't trouble me too much...
This is one of the few yte historians who tells Truth; I have a few of his books- good reading, good info....
For half a century, as William Loren Katz wrote forty books and edited 212 research volumes, he also become an acclaimed lecturer — from New York’s American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, The Western History Association to Johns Hopkins University, The Institute for Texan Cultures, and the Schomburg Library and more than fifty other universities, museums, and libraries; on network TV and radio; and in Europe and Africa. He has hosted his own history news program on Pacifica radio.
Katz’s books and illustrated lectures have won praise from Dr. John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Dr. Cornel West, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
William Loren Katz’s lectures explore vital historical issues:
For centuries Africans and Indians battle against European invaders and slaveholders changed history. To defeat people of color Europeans stressed “divide and rule.” Black women and men built dozens of frontier towns Black Indian lawmen, scouts and outlaws shaped western territories Does U.S. racial thinking still impact people of color?
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quote: This movie won the festival pick in 2006, at the bridgetown film festival here in barbados, it was a hit an still talk about, it was film with a small digital camera, it was a low budget movie, the first full length, all bajan cast movie that ever made it to the cinemas..
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PORTIA MAD LIKE PUSS...KMRCT....AH WHA DO SHE?
Jamaica will seek no reparation from Britain - Simpson Miller
THE JAMAICAN Government has given the clearest signal yet that it would not be pressing Britain to pay reparation for the ills of slavery.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, in an interview conducted at The Gleaner's North Street, Kingston offices on Monday, said she would not join the calls for such a payment.
"Whether Britain would be able to pay compensation to the population ... of African descent, I don't know.
"I have heard the calls, I am not making any call on the British government about whether they pay or give us compensation," the prime minister said.
At the same time, Simpson Miller has said her Government was not expecting Prince Harry to apologise for the ills of slavery. She also said her Government would not be calling for Britain to pay reparation for slavery.
The prince arrived in Jamaica on Monday for a four-day visit. He is representing his grandmother - The Queen - who is celebrating 60 years on the British throne.
Britain built its empire on the back of slave labour, some of which took place on Jamaican plantations between the 17th and 19th centuries. Asked if Britain should apologise for slavery, Simpson Miller said her Government would demand no such action.
'Wicked, brutal'
Speaking of the capture and sale of people in Africa, the Middle Passage, as well as slave labour on plantations, Simpson Miller said, "it was wicked, it was brutal".
"No race should have been subjected to what our ancestors were subjected to," she said of slavery.
"We gained our freedom on the sweat, blood and tears of our ancestors and we are now free. If Britain wishes to apologise, fine with us, no problem at all," she added.
Out of the same interview, conducted jointly by the BBC and The Gleaner, reports were yesterday carried in the British media claiming Simpson Miller had hinted her Government would be seeking reparations for slavery.
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'A Nanny ting dis!' - Mother Moore has practised Kumina for decades
Maroon artifacts on display.
Loretta Moore of Steer Town, St Ann, has practised kumina for decades and believes that people view it negatively because they do not understand it.
Kerry Richards and 'Yanki' of the Charles Town Maroons Singers and Dancers rock to the beats of the Scott's Hall and Charles Town Maroon drums at a Moore Town Maroons' Nanny Day Celebration. - File
Carl Gilchrist, Gleaner Writer
There still seems to be a misunderstanding of the role that Kumina played in the fight against slavery several centuries ago. Introduced to Jamaica some time in the 18th century by indentured Africans from central regions of the African continent, Kumina comprises several features, including dance, music, spiritual possession, and the art of healing by using herbs.
For 76-year-old Loretta Moore of Steer Town in St Ann, it is this misunderstanding that has cast Kumina in a negative light. For her, though, Kumina is a good practice which is used primarily for healing.
Originally from St Catherine, Moore got involved with Kumina over 40 years ago when she went to live in Portland. She works off the Maroon order, her late father having been a Maroon, and while she has played a major role as the mother, she said her husband Seymour is the head.
"A Nanny ting dis," Mother Moore said of Kumina, when The Gleaner visited her home on Wednesday.
Nanny (of the Maroons, they being defiant Jamaican slaves during slavery days) is Jamaica's only Heroine, and is famed for her exploits against the British soldiers at the time. She is reputed to have used magic, some say obeah also, in her fight against the white slave masters at the time.
But to Mother Moore, Kumina is not obeah, despite the belief of many persons.
"Kumina is a tradition, it and Revival almost work the same way," she explained. She said Revival was the easy, or common, stage. There is also a link to the Jonkunu. In fact, it is said if one can dance the Kumina then one can also dance the masquerade, which is the Jonkunu dance. Instruments are basically the same - kata stick, shaka grater and drums. One main difference is the piccolo (or pipe) used in Jonkunu, while in Kumina it is the voice that leads.
Growing up with the practice, it was easy to get involved and there was no room for fear because of the closeness of the practice to her.
With both husband and wife being part of a group called Number Nine, they won awards for their Kumina dancing from Jamaica Cultural Development Commission in earlier years.
When they moved to St Ann around 14 years ago the practice continued. Over the years, they have helped not only to preserve the Kumina tradition but have done a lot of healing along the way.
Mother Moore, with the assistance of Mr Moore, took The Gleaner through the workings of Kumina, in order to present a clearer understanding of the tradition.
quote: THIS VIDEO HAS CAPTIONS! In many cases, Patois cannot be translated word for word into English, as it would not carry the same meaning. I have attempted to provide the general idea of each expression in the video.
There are many things some Jamaican moms will say when their kids get them really MAD to the point where they unleash their JAMAICAN WRATH! Here are some of them funniest i've heard, and the usual kids' reactions lol We love our kids and want the best for them, but sometimes we have to rule with the iron fist. :-)This video is done in FUN guys!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoy it!
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Brada, yuh did ah 'ear bout di Denham Town shootings doah, don't? Posts: 3446 | From: U.S. by way of JA by way of Africa | Registered: Jan 2010
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What ah piece of embarrassment PARADE OF SHAME smh deh yah deadin I dunno how mi wuda work pon di news n report dis....dem wuda fire mi fe laughing
When tings down yuh haffi tun yuh hand mek fashion...Tighten yuh belt
sorry lol... mi jus find it funny that ah party ah mon ah bruk ina house and 6 ah dem get ketch...
and belted together...
Note to the non-yardies dem: This can happen in JA & not farrin for this simple fact:
Ah yard, if dem try run di police can shat dem ina dem bumbo and it's almost 100% certain that won't even get charged as long as him can prove say is a teef, where as in farrin dat teef and fi him lawyer wuda have ah field day with that case against the city...
Ah suh di ting set...
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Mi blood ah boil....di amount of drape and box dat wuda reach him JAH help him...mi woulda shat him one bloodclaat box yuh see...give him di phone, and fe every rass digit him press is ah next box...him wuda pick up fi him teeth off di bus floor, mi fe tell yuh! Mi wuda sleep ina jail ah few nights cah fram di first wud come outta him mout one rass box...lick out alla him teeth mek mi give him someting fe call social services bout...bwoy facety nuh rass....him wuda sleep outta door...not unda mi roof. She talk too much tuh him eno...lol... if fimi yute-son did eva speak tuh me dem ways deh, yuh think seh di video wuda 2 minutes long!?!!!!! Yuh mussi mad!!!
Ah good year ina yard will sort him out, wey dem can hammer him wid lick widout any consequence lol...by di time him reach back ah LONDON him nuh have nuh behavioral issues weh ah switch or belt cyaa handle.... Posts: 3446 | From: U.S. by way of JA by way of Africa | Registered: Jan 2010
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Hay I have seen worst but for real though I think this is clever damage control to reinforce links because if the Jamaicans carry through with their threats of abandoning the monarchy others will certainly follow thus shrinking his empire even more than his mother if he becomes king.
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: Hay I have seen worst but for real though I think this is clever damage control to reinforce links because if the Jamaicans carry through with their threats of abandoning the monarchy others will certainly follow thus shrinking his empire even more than his mother if he becomes king.
Seen...ver-ry good point!
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quote:Originally posted by TruthAndRights: Brada, yuh did ah 'ear bout di Denham Town shootings doah, don't?
Ghetto People Have No Rights: Denham Town Residents Angry About The Police Raid PT 1 Mar 8 2012 Residents of Denham Town in Kingston are upset over the killing of six residents in an alleged police-criminal shootout on March 5, 2012.
Ghetto People Have No Rights: Denham Town Residents Angry About The Police Raid PT 2 Mar 8 2012 Opposition leader Andrew Holness and West Kingston member of Parliament Tours sections of West Kingston were six died on Monday...
The real DON is “POP CORN” the original- still deh bout....
Eric “Chineman” Vassel” still deh bout....
Desmond “Dezi” Brown still deh bout...
Most ah dem odda man dem dead off...
Danhai Williams ah wicked man...him going dead bad. Who him nuh rob, set up and kill nuh born yet...
Yuh see how long ago di video yah duh and ah di same ting ova and ova again it naw stap di ongle ting mi see kinda cool ah di war when election ah come POLI-SUCK-COCKY-TICIAN aahhh sah! Posts: 3446 | From: U.S. by way of JA by way of Africa | Registered: Jan 2010
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JFK and Stefan Lorant, on the hotel beach, Round Hill, Jamaica. January 1957.
Jcan hairdresser in the 1940's.
"This is one time only Actor "Countyman" in the Movie by the same title - The Movie was dedicated to Bob Marley shortly after his death.. It tells the story of a Jamaican fisherman whose solitude is shattered when he rescues two Americans from the wreckage of a plane crash. The fisherman, called Countryman, is hurled into a political plot by the dangerous Colonel Sinclair. Countryman uses his knowledge of the terrain and his innate combat skills to survive. The film was shot in Jamaica and featured a reggae soundtrack performed by Bob Marley & the Wailers. It has become a cult classic." Watch it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oILbE7cekFg&featuPosts: 3446 | From: U.S. by way of JA by way of Africa | Registered: Jan 2010
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The film opens with the arrival of Winston Churchill at Montego Bay airport on Friday 9 January 1953 on board the 'Independence', the personal plane of the President of the United States of America. Churchill is met by the Governor Sir Hugh Foot and Sir Harold Mitchell, at whose house he is staying. A 'smart array' of Police constables forms a guard of honour and Churchill begins his inspection in his 'own inimitable way'. Churchill next meets W. A. Bustamante, who presents him with cigars. Street scenes celebrate Churchill's arrival - in St James' and Montego Bay - while Churchill gives 'his famous V sign' from the car. He receives a civil reception in Kingston on 17 January. The film shows further celebrations - crowd members fainting, the Jamaican battalion performing the guard of honour - before Churchill meets Bobby Jones, the director of the performing Jamaican military band. Mayor Edward Fagan presents Churchill with the key to the city, and then Churchill gives a speech. He next visits the University College of West Indies, unveiling a plaque to mark the opening of a teaching hospital. Finally he visits the 'Spanish town' of St Catherine, where he sees Admiral Rodney's memorial. The commentary concludes that 'by his visit Jamaica's history has been enriched, her popularity increased and her prestige enhanced'.
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A title introduces 'Montego Bay. The Market Square and Main Street'. The camera shows horse and carts travelling in front of the camera, while locals stand by the roadside and walk by. The next title reveals 'A Logwood forest', as the camera pans across the forest and shows four locals chopping down wood. The film now shows scenes from a moving train, as a title reads 'Leaving Montego Bay'. After shots of the water, the train pulls away from Montego Bay station, watched by a small crowd. Further shots from the back of the train reveal locals (carrying goods on their head) and houses. The train passes through a station and continues its journey.
The next title introduces 'The Bogue Islands, where oysters grow on trees', as the film shows the landscape (and homes) from the travelling train. The journey continues through a further station and under a number of bridges, before a final title introduces 'Banana and Sugar Plantations'. The plantations are briefly seen from the moving train, before the film ends abruptly.
Well known East Indian Girls - Jamaica
Vintage:
CARTWHEEL DUMPLING with special "piece-a branch stirring stick"......a YARD DIS....
Countrywalk - JA
Fisherman - Alligator Pond - St. Elizabeth
YARD!
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Albumen print of a worker on a banana plantation. No photographer, date or location. Jamaica, around 1900.
Vintage Jamaica Postcard: "Greetings From Jamaica, B.W.I. - Carting out Canes from the Field"
MONTEGO BAY MARKET
THE SNOW CART BACK IN THE DAY.
View of the ruins of The Colonial Bank, Kingston, Jamaica following the devastating earthquake of January 14, 1907. (Photo by Archive Farms/Getty Images)
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Cassava Piece tragedy - Woman shot, fingers pointed at police
Daviot Kelly, Staff Reporter
BLOOD AND pieces of flesh still stained the yard and steps of Dianne Gordon's Cassava Piece home.
Residents of the community are mourning the death of the 45-year-old office attendant, who they say was killed by police early yesterday morning.
Gordon lived with her husband, Hugh Collins, and two daughters. She was returning from a wake in the community where she had brought rum for the mourners. At least one bullet hit her in the head.
The residents' main concern is now for Gordon's younger daughter, who is scheduled to sit the Grade Six Achievement Test next week. They are certain she will not be able to cope.
Collins could barely explain what he knew. He was also at the wake but left about midnight.
"Mi leave before har and come in a watch TV and mi hear di gunshot dem. A when mi come outside, mi see seh a she," he said, leaning against a fence for support.
INDECOM investigation
Investigators from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) were on the scene at approximately 3:30 a.m., according to Senior Public Relations Officer Kahmile Reid. She said all nine policemen who were allegedly involved in the incident were from the Constant Spring Police Station. Reid said the police's account of the incident was that they were greeted by gunfire when they entered the community. The police said they were acting on information that gunmen were in the area.
But residents are refuting claims of a shoot-out. They say the wake was for a 13-year-old, and that the lawmen fired aimlessly, picking up their spent shells after. They showed us the gate to Gordon's yard that was full of holes.
"All three shot ketch inna di bicycle a di front a di yard. A di fuss mi eva see dat," said one man. Reid confirmed that the policemen's hands have also been swabbed.
"We have notified them that they need to come in to INDECOM or we go wherever they are to take their respective statements," said Reid.
INDECOM says Gordon's killing is the 24th shooting death by the police that the commission is investigating for March.
Residents say Gordon was a quiet woman who merely went to work and then back home.
Police chaplain Assistant Commissioner of Police Gary Welsh was on hand trying to calm residents. Meanwhile, Member of Parliament for North Central St Andrew Karl Samuda charged that the police should have been more careful.
"The firing of high-powered weapons at close range in these communities is absolute madness. It seems, unfortunately, that this is a pattern of behaviour that has emerged," he said, referring to recent shooting incidents involving the police. He questioned the methods and training of the lawmen and vowed to follow the case through to its end.
"Unless the police has hard, cold evidence as to the reason they discharged their weapons, then the full weight of the law must be brought to bear on them. I won't rest until I get a full explanation on this. A full, detailed report has to be presented. It will not be forgotten," he said.
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