Dem Catch Dudus!

The police captured Dudus on Wednesday. He waived his rights to trial in Jamaican court and is now in the US. He probably did this in order to get out of Jamaica as soon as possible. His father died in a Jamaican prison, killed by co-conspirators who didn't want their identity unveiled. The arrest came as a surprise to everyone. It was non-violent and everything in Kingston has remained relatively calm since then.

Comic by Clovis from the Jamaica Observer

However, the real story was revealed by the the cartoon and comments which accompanied the article in the observer. Dudas was wearing a wig to disguise himself as a woman! I was really surprised to see the wig because most Jamaicans are very homophobic. Male friends don't usually touch one another. It is a big insult to say a man moves like a "fish" or is "chi chi" or a "batty man." Apparently he is not the first Jamaican cross-dressing gangster either. As one of the commenters on the Observer article said "I guess when trouble tek yuh, pickney shut do affi fit yuh." (Literally: When trouble takes you a child's shirt will have to fit you.)

An extreme example of anti-homosexual sentiment. I took this picture in a local taxi. A lot of Jamaicans will write things on their cars in white letters (usually on the outside). Bunn is Patois for burn and sadamite is gay person (from sodomy)