IN JAMAICA: Agent Sasco's (also known as Assassin) crime plan...... the authorities should stop focusing on certain communities when there is an upsurge in a particular area. Rather, they must look at the issue as a Jamaican problem. DO YOU AGREE with his suggestion?

Agent Sasco
 (also known as Assassin)

BY RICHARD JOHNSON Observer senior reporter johnsonr@jamaicaobserver.com

Saturday, February 22, 2014   

LONG-TERM solutions and not quick fixes. That's the suggestion to authorities by deejay Agent Sasco, in order to curb the spate of violence gripping Jamaica.

For Agent Sasco (also known as Assassin) the authorities should stop focusing on certain communities when there is an upsurge in a particular area. Rather, they must look at the issue as a Jamaican problem.

"It is not a Dunkirk or East Kingston problem. When you look at it, it is the same violent acts which just pop up from community to community," the deejay insisted.

"We really need to look into ourselves and establish why certain acts of violence take place and work towards solutions for the country as a whole... it can't be a three-month thing. Police, soldier and curfew, and once the violence die down they move on to the next community."

Police on guard in Dunkirk

During the past two months, East Kingston has been rocked by a series of violent acts including the be-heading of a woman last weekend.

Agent Sasco spent his formative years in the troubled McIntyre Villa (Dunkirk) community of East Kingston. He told the Jamaica Observer that based on his interaction with persons in these communities, there is lack of hope.

"When you talk to the people who live in these realities one gets a sense that they feel they do not have much to live for -- a sense of hopelessness. In addition they feel marginalised by the wider society." more