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BY PAUL A REID Observer West writer  

MONTEGO BAY, St James – High Court Judge Donald McIntosh yesterday began the Michaelmas session of the St James Circuit Court with a damning indictment of the second city.

“Montego Bay, once a hospitable place has descended to a place ‘rife with corruption’ and not fit for habitation where ‘people are killed for no apparent reasons’,” he said, noting that although he once looked forward to visiting the western city, these days he “felt like an alien” as “based on reports this is not a place to live anymore”.

His comments came after Crown Counsel Maxine Jackson outlined the list of 39 cases – which included 22 murders – to be tried in the six-week session.

McIntosh said that while murders and corruption were not unique to any one area, it appears “St James was the foremost in that