May 2010
5 posts
numbers.
i like numbers. i do. they are comforting in a way; they help to explain and predict an inexplicable and unpredictable world in which every moment is informed by the actions and reactions of more people than we can imagine.
but, as helpful and reliable as we would like numbers to be, they never tell the whole story. case in point: my post from the other day, which took a few numbers (73, 500, 6)...
73...500...6...
An article in the NY Times yesterday reported 73 dead and 500 detained in Tivoli, and only 6 guns found by security forces. 6 guns. 6. After 3 days of scouring the neighborhood, restricting access to the media, the security forces weren’t even able to rustle up enough seized weapons to make it look like a justifiable incursion, even during a State of Emergency. Instead, it looks like a...
While it seems that the widespread violence has been quelled for now, troubling reports from the family of friends in Tivoli suggest a wholesale detention of men under 30 by the JDF. Many of these men, like our friends, are not implicated in recent events, other than by virtue of the fact that they live in Tivoli, but will still be detained, processed and fingerprinted like criminals. If nothing...
The long-simmering garrisons exploded Sunday afternoon, fueled by the obvious conclusion that the police were going to take advantage of the long holiday weekend to try and execute the arrest warrant on Dudus in Tivoli. Reports and rumors of gunfire and violence across Kingston flooded Twitter and Blackberry Messenger as people panicked and struggled to grasp exactly what was going on.
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These are, as the adage goes, interesting times in Kingston. The country is a-twitter with rumors that a highly controversial extradition request will be signed today. As a result, businesses are closing early, people are crowding the supermarkets, and uptown folks are running for the hills.
Who is the not-so-lucky recipient that could inspire such panic? One Christopher “Dudus”...
