Eleven Caribbean countries were cited in the latest...

Eleven Caribbean countries were cited in the latest Amnesty International report on international human rights violations.
The report, which covers events from January to 2001 December in 152 countries, details a wide range of abuses, including cases of torture and ill treatment, and extra-judicial killings by police.
Jamaica and Guyana were among 47 countries, in which there were documented extra judicial killings by police. In its report on Jamaica, Amnesty said at least 148 persons were killed by the police, many in disputed circumstances.
Detentions without charge or trial and ill-treatment were also reported. The report also points to conditions of detention, which frequently amounted to cruel and inhuman treatment. Amnesty says at least 50 persons were on death row in Jamaica at the end of the 2001.
The human rights group claims that the economic situation remains dire with large sections of society living below the poverty line. Amnesty says in 2001, a total of 1,139 persons, including 15 police officers, were reportedly murdered in Jamaica.
In Guyana, there also were frequent reports of killings in circumstances suggesting that they were extra judicial executions, the international human rights watchdog says.
"President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that the recommendations of a review of the police force, prisons and the justice system would be considered by the government. Death sentences continued to be imposed. No executions were carried out. Approximately 23 people, including two women, remained on death row at the end of the year," the report said.
In Belize there were also several reports of torture and killings in disputed circumstances by police officers as well as in the Dominican Republic, where the pattern of "unlawful killings" by security forces, noted in previous years, continued to concern the human rights watchdog in 2001.
In Trinidad and Tobago, Amnesty reports of torture and ill treatment by police persisted and abuses in detention continued to be a cause of "grave concern".