Official: Jamaica's opposition easily wins vote
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:04:39 -0800

Samuda has said the party was partly hobbled by lingering questions about ex-Prime Minister Bruce Golding's handling of a 2009 US extradition request for Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher " Dudus " Coke, the island's most notorious extralegal figure. ...

More Domino awards
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:57:24 -0800

Take a bow, Dudus . You win. You and yu neighbour have changed at least 73 civilian lives forever. My unscientific election prediction, based on my assumption of a rapidly maturing electorate? JLP 50; PNP 13. No fancy pollster required. ...

I-Octane, Rising Dancehall Star, Poised to Break Through
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:51:21 -0800

... topper "Lose A Friend," a somber tribute to a departed companion that was later adapted as an homage to the casualties of Kingston's Tivoli Gardens incursion in May 2010, as Jamaican authorities pursued wanted drug lord Christopher " Dudus " Coke. ...

Nubiart Diary - End of Year Review
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:26:57 -0800

Jamaica's JLP PM Bruce Golding resigned after his administration was exposed as supporting the garrison community mindset by trying to avoid the extradition of Christopher ' Dudus ' Coke to America on drugs and racketeering charges for which Coke was ...

Can St. Kitts Nevis learn any lessons from the recent Jamaican elections?
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:56:31 -0800

The JLP betrayed the trust of the Jamaican people in the ' Dudus affair' and they underestimated the depth and the extent of the pain especially of the 70 deaths in the Tivoli Gardens affair. Then by defending the "rights"of the wrong people, ...

Letter of the day - Election lessons
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:38:04 -0800

Case in point, the Dudus -Manatt issue. JLP MPs, across the board, must work much harder at the constituency level. It is all well and good to, at the national level, have many accomplishments, but if constituents feel neglected, they will either not ...

Patrick Atkinson to be next attorney general
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:03:29 -0800

He was also a major standout at the Dudus /Manatt commission of enquiry, which many believed helped toppled the JLP government. He is currently one of the defence attorneys in the Cuban light bulb trial, involving former PNP junior minister Kern Spencer ...

More like sports than elections
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:24:50 -0800

THE commission of enquiry to determine who it was that hired Manatt, Phelps and Phillips to defend Christopher ' Dudus ' Coke dominated the news for a major part of the year. During the proceedings of that enquiry, attorney KD Knight told Bruce Golding ...

How Homeland Security Helped Jamaica Massacre 73 Civilians
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:12:25 -0800

The New Yorker has just posted Mattathias Schwartz's excellent piece in last week's magazine on the disastrous raid to arrest Jamaican druglord Christopher " Dudus " Coke. At the DEA's insistence, Jamaican authorities reluctantly raided Tivoli Gardens, ...

JDF calls out reserves for election
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:32 -0800

He said that the last call out of the JDF reserves was in May last year, during the manhunt for former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher " Dudus " Coke after a warrant was issued for his arrest. At that time Kingston was placed under a limited state ...

Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:09:08 -0800

In addition, many drug traffickers have become both respected as well as feared figures within Jamaican society, such as the infamous drug lord Christopher Dudus Coke, one of the most dangerous criminals in the Caribbean and the United States. ...

And the winners are ...
Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:00:57 -0800

Days of Our Lives Award (for the biggest soap opera-type event of the year: The Manatt/ Dudus enquiry kept us tuned in every day, without fail. Of course, like all soap operas, there was no point to it in the end and no one was found criminally ...

Marcia Forbes: Jamaica Votes 2011 and the Women Who Ran
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:01:19 -0800

They came to the national elections on a strong tide of anti-JLP sentiment fuelled by charges of botched handling of the Dudus extradition, exposure of gross mismanagement of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP a mega-million ...

Call a garrison a garrison - Academic slams political leaders for obfuscation ...
Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:08:16 -0800

However, he suggested that despite the constraints, opportunities still existed to turn the corner on crime especially in light of the Christopher ' Dudus ' Coke controversy last year because since then Jamaica has seen a significant decline in all ...

And the awardees are ...
Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:50:20 -0800

(Remember, former Jamaican prime minister Bruce Golding won the " Dudus Coke Award" last year, and the US government sent its "congratulations" by cancelling the visas of Jamaican government officials.) I am "advised" that Ish and Steve sent Trinbago ...

On trial: rule of law T&T-style
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:42:20 -0800

With Attorney General Anand Ramlogan's decision against appealing their latest victory, they have defied the long arm of US law that had snatched superstar bandits Roger Khan from Guyana and Christopher " Dudus " Coke out of Jamaica. But this is T&T, ...

In Giamaica stravince la sinistra
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:42:10 -0800

Holness era diventato primo ministro due mesi fa dopo le dimissioni di Bruce Goldling, impopolare e sotto accusa per le cattive condizioni dell'economia e per essersi inizialmente opposto all'estradizione verso gli Stati Uniti di Christopher Dudus Coke ...

Holness deflects blame for Manatt affair
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:22:49 -0800

He was responding to a question during the just-ended leadership debate on whether he should be punished by the electorate for being part of an administration that frustrated the extradition request for alleged crime lord Christopher ' Dudus ' Coke. ...

Different strokes: General elections in Guyana and Jamaica
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:03:04 -0800

Even allowing for the role which the JLP's handling of the economy might have played in voter choices, the tainting of Mr Golding and his administration by the ' Dudus ' Coke affair appeared to have contributed in no small measure to the JLP's loss of ...

Elecciones bajo tension en Jamaica ante escrutinio que se anuncia disputado
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:31:41 -0800

Estos comicios fueron provocados por la renuncia del primer ministro Golding en septiembre de 2011, luego del mal manejo de la extradicion a Estados Unidos de Christopher Coke, conocido como " Dudus ", acusado de ser el baron de la droga en Jamaica, ...