Gun laws in Jamaica Gun laws in Jamaica Gun laws in Jamaica began to be tightened in the early 1970s, when Jamaica experienced a rise in violence associated with criminal gangs and political polarization between supporters of the People's National Party and the Jamaica Labour Party. After a rash of killings of lawyers and businessmen in 1974, the government of Michael Manley attempted to restore order by granting broad new law enforcement powers in the Suppression of Crime Act and the Gun Court Act. The Suppression of Crime Act allowed the police and the military to work together in a novel way to disarm
Jamaica United Front Jamaica United Front The Jamaica United Front was a political party in Jamaica. It was a right wing small party and was first noticed when in 1980 it proposed a national unity government of the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party. They were involved in an attempted coup on June 23, 1980. The leader, Charles Johnson, had been a member of the United States Army, serving in Vietnam and was running a security company in Kingston. The coup was seen by the left as a plot by the CIA and by the Jamaican Labour Party (which had not