JAMAICA Observer online readers have summed up the police’s investigation into claims of a mass burial site in East Kingston as “one big joke”. As I did comment on the first article that there will be enough time for the police and gangster to cover up, I think that’s exactly what is happening right now. A so dem a search for burial site that is supposedly dug with heavy-duty equipment?ysmith I am happy to read that this situation was investigated, however, there is a missing piece to this puzzle.jayjayja …This is how we carry out investigation in Jamaica and the reason why we have so much success in solving crime… Just looking at this picture says a lot.Holy Perv Bwoy. This is what we have to settle for as investigation? Did they question the families of any missing victims? Is this just a one-day, one-shift process consisting of a little shallow dig wid machetes?… If this is the way they investigate such a case, no wonder so many cases go unsolved.CRICKET Yes man, we believe you… was the area secured after this earlier disclosure? What a joke! … The police need to explain how come they take so long to go there, and also how they couldn’t get heavy equipment’s to use to dig? JahbenAlessandro FerrariBig joke! I knew this would happen. woodpecker To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honour grows from qualms.Bryan Leahing What can you find with pickaxe, shovels and forks and sniffing dogs? How deep could the bodies be. Shirley Holness

 In a release on the weekend, the police dismissed the existence of such a site, saying that their “intensive investigations” had proved the claim, made by an ex-gang member in a Sunday Observer article nearly a month ago, to be false.

However, the Observer has since revealed that the police visited the area only one day last week and that the only equipment they had were machetes and pick-axes that could not excavate the site to determine whether bodies were buried deep in the sand with heavy-duty equipment as the ex-gang member stated.

 Here are some edited comments:

David

 It just shows that we are not serious about fighting crime.

 After almost three weeks [after] this story was published, they (the police) are just investigating? How can we have police investigating something that they are involved in?

The Firefox

 This ex-gang member should be further questioned because there may be much more information he can give to the authorities.

 I don’t believe he lied about the burials; it’s possible that the erosions may have caused anything or anyone not deeply buried to have been washed out to sea.

donnietalker

 The gangster said heavyduty equipment was used to bury those bodies.Yet, cops are going in with forks, sticks and machettes to dig. Are those cops really serious? Does the authorities even know about this operation and agreed to it being carried out? This is one big joke.

Dwayne

 so soh Are we joker, poppy shows and court jesters?

noshel

Pickaxe, shovels and a couple of mongrel dogs disguised to search the site.

 Yea man, we believe the finest crimefighters in the world who solve a whopping five per cent of murders.

 — John Leonard, critic (1939-2008). I am afraid we have yet to evolve to this point as a country and its extremely sad. We have lost the ability to feel SHAME.

 I wonder how far these dogs can sniff…

I can’t really believe all this stupidity: A team of police investigators armed with a machete and a garden fork converge on a site to uncover bodies that are suspected of been buried there by “heavyduty equipment”. Commanding officer in charge, please explain the objective of this.