Vivian Blake Dead

[Bricktop]

Of Shower Posse fame. Suh mi here.

[Hortical]

Former Shower Posse boss Vivian Blake dies

Former Shower Posse boss Vivian Blake dies
Monday, March 22, 2010

FORMER Shower Posse boss Vivian Blake died at the University Hospital of the West Indies yesterday after suffering a heart attack Saturday. According to a close associate, Blake had been ailing for some time.
Blake returned to Jamaica last year after spending eight years in a US prison. He was fingered as the mastermind behind the ruthless Shower Posse, which had established drug bases in more than 20 US cities, Canada and the United Kingdom and was reportedly responsible for more than 1,400 murders.
In December 1988, Blake slipped out of the United States on a cruise ship and entered Jamaica in Ocho Rios, St Ann. He managed to remain free for five years before he was arrested on an extradition warrant in 1998. He spent five years fighting extradition to the US before he was eventually handed over to US authorities.

[Willi]

Even PNP people a defend Dudus? Frightening!

'Dudus next to God'

Monday, March 22, 2010


Dear Editor,
The word "Dudus" seems to have successfully eclipsed "recession" as the most widely used word in the country. The Dudus affair has generated much interest, resulting in all and sundry pronouncing on the matter.
The US law enforcement agencies have spoken through their unsealed Grand Jury indictment accusing Dudus of gun running and drug dealing.

Dudus's lawyer, Senator Tom Tavares Finson, has spoken up in defence of his client, stating that Dudus is an upstanding businessman who is focused on taking care of his family and developing his community. The government, through Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has spoken in defence of Dudus's human rights, indicating that the government will not facilitate the extradition request because America has breached Jamaican law.

The Opposition has spoken, mainly through former national security minister, Dr Peter Phillips, accusing the government of political interference. Civil society, including the PSOJ and the Jamaica Council of Churches, has spoken, urging the government to allow the courts to deal with the matter. Some of the country' legal minds have spoken in favour and against the government's handling of the matter.

However, the most profound statement was made by a group of women from Hannah Town. The women, who indicated that they were PNP supporters, spoke on national television and proclaimed in a worship-like manner that "Dudus next to God". Before we rush to condemn these women, let us examine why they ascribed near divinity status to Dudus.

They said that Dudus assisted their children in going to school, provided funding for their businesses, provided protection and maintained the peace, among other things.

The women's statement that Dudus is next to God provides a critical insight into our prevailing social and political order. For those women in Hannah Town and thousands of Jamaicans in several communities across Jamaica, their dons are next to God, because traditional values, the established social order and legitimate leadership are crumbling before our eyes.

Dudus and his counterparts throughout Jamaica will continue to be acclaimed as next to God as long as parenting and family life remain weak, churches and pastors remain indifferent and irrelevant, civil society remains dormant, and political parties and their leaders remain visionless and uninspiring.

If we continue to cede parcels of the country to strongmen and outsource law and order to others rather than the police force and the courts, then all Jamaica will soon be forced to worship at the altar of lawlessness and criminality and join the women of Hannah Town in praising the dons as gods.

Orville Plummer
oaplummer@yahoo.com

[Mosiah]

Sensationalism, Willi!

A group of women from Hannah Town (it matters not if they are PNP supporters) can hardly be called "PNP people"! Fact of the matter is ghetto people support ghetto people and support ghetto institutions, namely donmanship. They appreciate what dons do for communities and can't see pass the next lunch money fi dem pickney!

[Hortical]

Well one would expect those who are fed by Dons would be appreciative of the sustenance that they receive.

[Mosiah]

love your signature!

[Sir X]

Like uptown people support those who defend dem visa ?

[Mosiah]

exactly!

btw, a don't waan fi see yuh pon di site in a couple hours!

[Me]

You have to wonder what caused the heart attack, given his recent disagreements with the one who may not be extradited.

[Mosiah]

something attacked his heart. dat is all you need to know!

[Farmah]

If you live by the syringe you might also die by the syringe! Selah.

[Time]

Jim Brown controlled commerce in PNP areas

Even PNP people a defend Dudus? Frightening!

'Dudus next to God'

Monday, March 22, 2010


Dear Editor,
The word "Dudus" seems to have successfully eclipsed "recession" as the most widely used word in the country. The Dudus affair has generated much interest, resulting in all and sundry pronouncing on the matter.
The US law enforcement agencies have spoken through their unsealed Grand Jury indictment accusing Dudus of gun running and drug dealing.

Dudus's lawyer, Senator Tom Tavares Finson, has spoken up in defence of his client, stating that Dudus is an upstanding businessman who is focused on taking care of his family and developing his community. The government, through Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has spoken in defence of Dudus's human rights, indicating that the government will not facilitate the extradition request because America has breached Jamaican law.

The Opposition has spoken, mainly through former national security minister, Dr Peter Phillips, accusing the government of political interference. Civil society, including the PSOJ and the Jamaica Council of Churches, has spoken, urging the government to allow the courts to deal with the matter. Some of the country' legal minds have spoken in favour and against the government's handling of the matter.

However, the most profound statement was made by a group of women from Hannah Town. The women, who indicated that they were PNP supporters, spoke on national television and proclaimed in a worship-like manner that "Dudus next to God". Before we rush to condemn these women, let us examine why they ascribed near divinity status to Dudus.

They said that Dudus assisted their children in going to school, provided funding for their businesses, provided protection and maintained the peace, among other things.

The women's statement that Dudus is next to God provides a critical insight into our prevailing social and political order. For those women in Hannah Town and thousands of Jamaicans in several communities across Jamaica, their dons are next to God, because traditional values, the established social order and legitimate leadership are crumbling before our eyes.

Dudus and his counterparts throughout Jamaica will continue to be acclaimed as next to God as long as parenting and family life remain weak, churches and pastors remain indifferent and irrelevant, civil society remains dormant, and political parties and their leaders remain visionless and uninspiring.

If we continue to cede parcels of the country to strongmen and outsource law and order to others rather than the police force and the courts, then all Jamaica will soon be forced to worship at the altar of lawlessness and criminality and join the women of Hannah Town in praising the dons as gods.

Orville Plummer
oaplummer@yahoo.com

You late man, Dudus daddy infiltrated PNP areas by focusing on commercial activity.

[Assasin]

"A group of women from Hannah Town (it matters not if they are PNP supporters) can hardly be called "PNP people"! Fact of the matter is ghetto people support ghetto people and support ghetto institutions, namely donmanship. They appreciate what dons do for communities and can't see pass the next lunch money fi dem pickney"

I can't believe you say this. So the Donmanship is supported?

[Mosiah]

Den yuh neva know dat? Yuh neva see what happen when dem did hold Zeeks in the 90s, how di place rail up till him haffi address dem from di balcony of di police station?!?

And as far as I'm concerned, this support crosses political lines! An attack on Dudus is an attack on a ghetto institution!

[Willi]

But he was not a PNP don!

The lines are now blurred?