When political violence erupted in the Olympic Gardens area of St Andrew West Central in the 1980s, Bradley McCallum Jr, who was living in the United States, saw the greatest exodus his community would experience. As the nation was gripped by bloody political tribal violence, houses were fire-bombed and many citizens killed, many in multiple-shooting incidents. Read more here: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20201029/haunted-1980-violence-triggers-mass-exodus-olympic-gardens#slid

Forty years after the bloody election campaign in 1980, Rosemarie ‘Debbie’ Maragh believes that she would not be alive today had it not been for her insistent sister and the heroic help of a man who braved heavy gunfire while ushering her to safety. That occurred during the infamous Gold Street Massacre. Read more here: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20201028/dark-dance-death-survivors-remember-gold-street-massacre #Election1980 | Jamaica Gleaner