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Retired crime-fighter, Reneto Adams, believes the revocation of his United States visa is not likely to have any significant negative impact on the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). "No, not at all," Adams responded to a question posed by Loop News on whether the cancellation of his visa and his ultimate ban from the United States will negatively affect the police force from which he retired in 2008. The opinion came as questions continue to circulate in various circles regarding the implications of the ban of both retired and current members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) from the U...

His heart heaving with fear, Rohan Thomas has vivid recollections of bolting through bushes at lightning speed, each stride faster and longer as if chased by a ghost. It was his own ghost that he was fleeing to escape. A survivor of the quadruple killing in Kraal, north-central Clarendon, Thomas is still wracked by the trauma linked to the bloodletting that unfolded on May 7, 2003, a flashpoint that regained international prominence last Thursday when the Trump administration slapped six current and former Jamaican policemen with travel and other sanctions. Washington’s ban against Reneto A...

Reneto Adams Reneto DeCordova Adams, one of Jamaica’s most feared crime-fighters of all time, says Jamaicans should accept the not guilty verdict that was handed down by the Supreme Court in relation to the murder cases against him and other police personnel that arose out of the fatal shooting of four persons in Kraal district, Clarendon in 2003. The US State Department appeared to have been referencing to the incident in Kraal district, where members of the Adams-led Crime Management Unit (CMU) were implicated in the controversial killings of two women and two men. The deceased were ident...

Jamaica’s national security establishment is now grappling with how to deal with four serving policemen who have been sanctioned by a “hypocritical” lame-duck Trump administration for alleged “gross violations in human rights”. “I’m searching and trying to understand why now; why almost two decades later,” a senior official in the Holness administration said of the US imposing the entry block and other sanctions on the six men and their immediate families over the 2003 incident in Kraal, Clarendon, that left four civilians dead. “Visas are cancelled all the time, but we’...

Khadane Rowe, who witnessed the condition his uncle Rohan ‘Bulby’ Thomas was in as he ran for his life in Kraal, Clarendon, on that fateful day of May 7, 2003, says it is a memory that will never be erased. Reacting to the news that the United States had imposed travel and other sanctions on six former members of the disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force as well as members of their immediate families because of the Kraal incident, Rowe said it brought little consolation. The six – retired Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams, who led the unit; Devon Orlan...