Dead and injured taken to KPH

Looters strip West Queen's Street businesses

By COREY ROBINSON, Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

CASUALTIES continue to roll in to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) this morning as the battle between the security forces and gunmen rages on in West Kingston.

Minutes ago, a male teenager as well as a police officer were taken into the Accident and Emergency unit with gunshot wounds.

The injured youngster was loaded onto a stretcher while the officer, apparently struck in his right leg, hopped onto a provided wheelchair.

Persons outside the hospital said close to 30 bodies were earlier loaded from a police armoured truck. They said the persons were pronounced dead at KPH before being taken to the Maddens Funeral Home.

Meanwhile, gunshots continue to ring out in sections of West Kingston as well as near the intersection of Windward and South Camp roads

The Observer saw looters running amok on West Queen’s Street, completely clearing out stores on the roadway.

No looting was observed on King or Orange streets, where there are wholesales and other businesses. The Observer is unable to move to the other areas because of roadblocks.

And gunshots were also heard in Allman Town. The security forces have blocked off South Camp Road near Up Park Camp.

There is a heavy police presence from Cross Roads downwards.

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COMMENTS (19)

Lu Pai
5/25/2010

Thank you Antonette W, I wanted to say those very words but something held me back, I truly hope the evil thugs don't get good medical care, but how would the doctors know the diffrence between the thugs and an inoccent man who was just too afraid speak out and couldn't leave.
So I take back my words, treat everyone who need medical care well and may God touch their hearts with great change.

Lu Pai
5/25/2010

Agree with anthony dunn, so sorry for Carrie Adamson and her children, but who ever killed your man how would they know he was a hard working father of 3. other people are murdered every day and night in thier own homes in Jamaica by gunmen who decide to kick down someones door and enter, I feel their pain also especailly the returning residents who are target by these thugs.
This entire thing is out of control.

anthony dunn
5/25/2010

@ Carrie Adamson
sorry for your lost..i really feel your pain, but have to bear in mind that hundreds of inocent persons die every year in jamaica, and the conspiracy between humans right and our incompetent Govt. will not allow anyone on death row to be put to death.
i hope jamaica will be forever changed for the better goin forward!!

Nonnne Namey
5/25/2010

This is just terrible. And people, please stop blaming young people when is adults who supply them with amunition and weapons. Look at all the lives that have been ruined and all the pain that have been caused because well off people parasite the poor and target them as items to be bullied...

Tania Allen
5/25/2010

It is so sad to know that innocent people has lost there life's because of bruse and Dudus mess but for sure Bruce Golding know what he was doing and hiding form the start. am i believe that he is the one hiding Dudus or arange everything. jamaica was a mess and PJ was the one that brought back jamaica to where if was until bruse come and mess it up again.

Carrie Adamson
5/25/2010

My Man was one of the ones they killed and HE had nothing to do with any of this. Hes just a Hard working Father of 3 and now what???? Who's going to take care of his kids? Who's going to explain Y Bruce your going to do this. What is wrong with this.

anthony dunn
5/25/2010

I read a report that women in tivoli say them have no food or water..short man did really want unno fi dead!!..how could he not provide food for the masses, knowing that is him keep hoilday treats,send the pickney dem to school and feed unno!!!..stupid people in garrisons all over jamaica who love hand outs,let this be a lesson to all of you!!!!.
you are all for sale to the highest bidder.

Antonette W.
5/25/2010

May God forgive me for having this thought, but I hope good medicine won't be wasted on anyone among those who have been killing or terrorizing innocent people in JA. I know vengeance is the Lord's, but I am disgusted with all the vicious murders. I pray for everyone, especially the aged and the poor innocent children. May God be with them. I'm calling for all the other expatriates to gather in our churches and meditate and pray for our homeland. If we are later called upon to help rebuild JA, let us get ready.

leo winter
5/25/2010

are praying for our security forces everywhere there re jamaicans

Wilfred Gray
5/25/2010

Some folks are even Golding, the PM, who we have so much respected, have sent, polices and soldiers, to faced the his incensed, supporters/
Tel us, could ahve this be done much better and without all this fanfare ,that is severel yaffacting our society,economy.
Never seen a MP ,attack his own constituents in such vicious,non-caring attitude yet?
Many fiond strange, that would have idea, this would ahppen and if,so ,why did not , it more sensibly.
So much stories,running i nUSA,
we do not know who beleive.
We thank, God, thru edication, we never to be such situations and have to sell drugs ever.
Oh, my God, it look bad,bad,bad!
Oh, God is good, to us.

Gloria Reynolds
5/25/2010

As I read of the events unfolding it saddens me but it was something that has been long coming.
As somebody who left Jamaica a long time ago I sit and wonder if whether people like me who travelled away from the country had returned and tried to contribute to the society that made us if any way we could have helped.
Unfortunately none of my childen feel a connection with Jamaica yes they know that is where I am from but that is all. With all that is happeningg in Jamaica the politics reminds you of all the other African countries who got their independence and had civil war.
Have no doubt this is civil war, it is a few who recognised anothe man and not the elected Government as their Government.
I hope the people of Jamaica can now stand up and let these politicians know it has to stop, and I hope that people like myself can contribute in a new Jamaica, because we abroad are hoping this can be a new beginning for a country that we love.
My Jamaica that rright now is in pain.

Jay Brown
5/25/2010

How do we end up with people looting in a SOE - Shoot dem on sight !!

Donavon Murray
5/25/2010

Will we now have the moral decency and political will to deal with this blight to our existence once-and-for-all? You can't make omelet without breaking egg, now a whole lot of eggs are being broken. Lives are being lost. Let these lives of our citizens and brave men and women in uniform not go in vain.
Cure this disease NOW and correct the situation permanently!
We are a small island, we're not that challenging to police and monitor so that we return to being an orderly society.

Rrainne Pheonix
5/25/2010

Apparently this is what our leaders wanted, because of their greed and disrespect for the jamaican people. apparently the Goverment wanted this and apparently does the people of TG, they support the criminals, the women wash the bloody clothes and hide the guns. My security force please be safe , my family who is a part of the JDF and JCF please go with GOD , be protected, but be vigilant in your duties and convictions. dont let the Criminal elements win. I wish you GOD speed and protection.

John Henry
5/25/2010

`Firearms have been around for over 400 years, yet it is only in the last 20 years that people have begun shouting "gun control". Why then, only recently, has this become such an issue? Moreover, why are there more mass-murderers than at any other time in our known history? It is not because weapons are more powerful -- 200-year-old muzzleloaders have a much greater force-per-round than today's "assault rifles". It is not because weapons are semi- or fully-automatic -- rapid-fire weapons have been available for most of the last century. It is not due to a lack of laws -- we have more "gun control" laws
than ever. It IS, however, because we have chosen to focus on "gun control" instead of crime control or "thug control." It IS because only recently has the public become complacent enough to accept, by inaction, the violence present in our society.'

Marc Lockhart
5/25/2010

I was hoping that looting would not take place. It is rather unfortunate. Beyond this concern though is the reality of the inevitable loss of life. It didn't have to happen if our political leaders cared about us. They have spawned a multi-head monster whose tentacles spread far and wide to the extent that gunmen from literally all over Jamaica are reportedly being called up for action in Tivoli. Regrettably, many more will die. I trust that among the dead will be the gun runners, narco-terrorists, rapers, kidnappers, and others of ill repute. May God be with our security forces at this time.

5/25/2010

a now d funeral bizniz a go flourish.

David Wu
5/25/2010

When the battle is down and the police as put down most of these criminals (I mean all the gunmen), they should immediately go through the areas in search of their weapons and ammunition. I known the police will be tired, but it woul dwould have stand as a proactive approach in curbing the overall basal voilence of Jamaica. The criminals should not be allowed to recover and rise. Research as shown through mathematical models of war, that if the security forces ease up after the unrest, the criminals will get stronger. The gunmen are pretty experience now, so they will use that.
Get the thugs. Be safe.

Tamika Dowdie
5/25/2010

sad just sad to hear these stories the first thing that befalls you in the morning

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