Qualla: Green Bay Massacre https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/1/q/green-bay-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Green Bay Massacre https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre Green Bay Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. They were promised jobs. In the early hours of January 5, 1978, a group of young men from the Southside community in downtown Kingston climbed into an army ambulance and a minivan at the intersection of Higholborn Street and Port Royal Street. Drivers and bodyguards, they had been told -- steady work for men who had little. The vehicles headed west through the darkness toward the Green Bay artillery range in Saint Catherine, where no jobs waited. What waited was a team of snipers from the Jamaica Defence Force, positioned in the hills above the range, armed with machine guns and rifles. Five men would die in the ambush that followed. The survivors would flee into the bush and the bay. And Jamaica would confront the fact that its own military had carried out a political assassination on its own soil.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/1/q/green-bay-massacre-wp/d71q-green-bay-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Green Bay Massacre: The Politics of Violence https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Jamaica in the late 1970s was tearing itself apart along party lines. The ruling People's National Party, led by Michael Manley, and the opposition Jamaica Labour Party had carved Kingston into political territories as rigid as any gang boundary. Southside -- the neighborhood aro...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/1/q/green-bay-massacre-wp/d71q-green-bay-massacre-the-politics-of-violence.mp3 0:06 2 full Green Bay Massacre: The Firing Range https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Green Bay artillery range sits along the coast near Port Henderson in Saint Catherine, west of Kingston. It is a military installation, isolated and controlled -- the kind of place where gunfire draws no attention. When the vehicles arrived in the early morning darkness, the ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/1/q/green-bay-massacre-wp/d71q-green-bay-massacre-the-firing-range.mp3 0:06 3 full Green Bay Massacre: The Dead and the Living https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The men killed at Green Bay were not abstractions. Norman Thompson, known as "Gutto," was twenty-seven years old and a former national footballer who had played for the Santos football team. Glenroy Richards was twenty-nine and an aspiring reggae singer. They came from Southside....

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/1/q/green-bay-massacre-wp/d71q-green-bay-massacre-the-dead-and-the-living.mp3 0:06 4 full Green Bay Massacre: Justice Denied https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. In July 1978, the Supreme Court issued warrants for ten members of the Jamaica Defence Force, charging them with first-degree capital murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The accused included Major Ian Robinson, Captain Karl Marsh, Lieutenants Suzanne Haik and Frederick Frazer...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/1/q/green-bay-massacre-wp/d71q-green-bay-massacre-justice-denied.mp3 0:06 5 full Green Bay Massacre: A Wound Unhealed https://qualla.com/green-bay-massacre/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Green Bay Massacre endures in Jamaican memory as one of the most brutal acts of political violence in the nation's history. It exposed the lethal extremes of garrison politics -- the system in which political parties armed and controlled entire communities, using them as base...

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