Bubba, Bobo, Zambo and Zeeks

摘要

After 30 years in the job, Eddie Seaga plans to step down as leader of Jamaica's opposition Labour Party on November 6th. In the 1970s, the Labour Party fought bitterly to unseat Michael Manley's People's National Party, then on the political left. Unwisely, both sides sought allies among the island's criminal gangs. "When councillors are campaigning, most of them use gunmen as agents," said Andrew Wheatley, the deputy mayor of Spanish Town, a hard-bitten Jamaican city, last month-retracting quickly after a howl of protest. Jamaican police now count 85 gangs, up from 35 in 1994.