Jamaica's security forces clashed with masked gunmen allied with an alleged drug kingpin for a second straight day Monday as a multi-front battle against gangs spread to slums outside the capital. Police and soldiers came under heavy fire in barricaded battle zones in the West Kingston stronghold of Christopher (Dudus) Coke, who is trying to avoid extradition to the U.S. on drug and arms trafficking charges. Military helicopters with mounted guns buzzed above the impoverished area, between plumes of black smoke. West Kingston, which includes the Trenchtown slum where reggae superstar Bob Marley was raised, is the epicentre of the violence. But on Monday, security agents were also under attack in troubled areas outside that patchwork of gritty slums. Gunmen shot at police while trying to erect barricades in a poor section of St. Catherine parish, which is just outside the two parishes where the government on Sunday implemented a month-long state of emergency.
It is good that Jamaica's security forces are doing something about it but I feel they should be doing more than just shooting at the bad guys but implimenting new rules and laws againts drugs and gangs. They should control the streets much more. There are many things that Jamaica could use that they don't have like old fashioned 'gun registries.' That would take the guns out of the hands of criminals and restore peace and democracy to the land. They have to start doing more about it otherwise it will only get worse.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/24/jamaica-gunmen024.html
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