What’s going on in this little dot on the world map called Jamaica? If the Sunday Observer story is to be believed, then it would seem that FBI and DEA agents --- and should we assume Interpol as well? -- are crawling all over the island.


According to the report, “agents from two American intelligence-gathering organisations have descended on Jamaica in unusual numbers over the last six months in what political watchers believe is a move by the United States to add more muscle to its request for Jamaica to extradite Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.


A highly placed source told the Sunday Observer that some of the agents have been given strict instructions to pay close attention to three Government ministers, several members of the security forces, and two major downtown business operations.”


Anybody cares to guess which businesses the Observer story is referring to?


It continues, “Sunday Observer sources say that a batch of 23 arrived in the island during the last three months to complement others already here.”


Well, it comes as no surprise that they are here, but the question is, are these US intelligence people here in the numbers that this story would expect us to believe?