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               Coli dez    Sweet   Music   Jamaica    Tech Life At the current rate of spread everyone including my late Grandmother will be catching Chikungunya before Christmas. The unbelievable statistics of note is that the first case of the virus in Jamaica was only reported on July 17, 2014. In only two (2) months without official data but careful observations it would seem that one in every three hundred Jamaicans between St. Thomas and St. Catherine has what appears to be symptoms of Chikungunya. This would therefore suggest that as much as 5,000 Jamaicans could have, by now, been infected with the virus. This also suggest that as much as 100,000 persons could potentially contract the virus by the end of October and theoretically the entire island by Christmas. Given this, here is the reality every Jamaican must face. Everyone is at high risk of contracting the Chikungunya virus and more so as the Government really does not have the resources to adequately contain the

               Coli dez    Sweet   Music   Jamaica    Tech Life Let me first say that this article is not about taking a position in defense of criminals or the defense of the unlawful police actions. In light of a recent killing of two young men in Garveymeade, Portmore, St. Catherine I decided to take it up on myself to do a little investigation into the incidences of police killings in Jamaica. I however believe that from the courts of public opinion not all these individuals killed are innocent but that doesn't justify extra judicial killings. I am also of the belief that the Jamaican police clearly carry out extrajudicial killings and in so doing often kill very innocent people. The are also cases where police kill individuals over issues unrelated to criminal activities and use the cover of crime to justify the killings. Those sort of killings must however stop. It was noted in a speaking engagement  to the Rotary Club of Downtown Kingston at the Hotel Four