Following his capture by Jamaican police, Michael Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has been extradited to the United States to face pending charges of drug and arms trafficking. “The President”, as he is also known, issued a statement about his decision “to waive [his] right to an extradition hearing in Jamaica and to proceed directly to the United States…”, a decision met with interest by some Jamaicans who “want him to sing like a canary regarding his dealings with influential people in the society.” YardFlex.com quotes one unnamed woman as saying “that there is a lot of dirt to come out” and “that Jamaicans should be prepared for a rude awakening.” There has also been a lot of discussion about the fact that Reverend Al Miller (the clergyman who was reportedly escorting ‘Dudus’ to turn himself over to U.S. authorities at the time of his capture) “has been charged by the Police for perverting the course of justice and harbouring a fugitive.” As that fugitive arrived on U.S. soil, YardFlex was prompted to ask: Now dat dem have him wah now…. Jamaica can go back to normal or not, hope we the people can see the difference. …while other netizens decided to crack jokes via Twitter, which were, of course, retweeted: @meishagaymattis: Two black presidents in America now! Dudus and Obama @ArnoldKer took a more serious view of the situation in a series of tweets: So wat happens now? The PM is forgiven & all is bak to normal, rite? smh I hope the opposition keeps pressing d govt for answers. I'm irritated by how short our memory is. These politicians just keep playing us & we take it and move on. Let's not be distracted by the wigs & the other red herrings. The issue is still at hand. Our leaders must be made to answer questions… Where r the strong positions that were taken few weeks ago? the national outcry? Everybody had sumtin to say, now its like nothin happened. As a ppl, unless we stand by our word, our politicians will do wat is necessary to pacify us for d moment. They kno how to play da game… Weeks ago everyone was callin for Dudus’ capture & now that he has been & the media has humanized him we're not so sure anymore…. Anyway, that's all I'm gonna say. I really do wish we were different though. A lot of things would change in Ja if we were… After a while, though, she too got in on the fun: him happy him reach US alive lol RT @MizAlly_baby: no this is serious.. y is Dudus smiling in all the pics??? u nuh tink something wrong lol Meanwhile, Annie Paul lamented that it was left up to the international media to “speculat[e] on the reasons for Christopher Coke's nickname…”: The New York Post tells us that of Jim Brown's three sons: The youngest was Christopher, who earned his nickname ‘Dudus’ — pronounced DUD-us — because he wore an African-style shirt favored by Jamaican World War II hero and Cabinet minister Dudley Thompson. She did concede, however, that “there [was] a ray of hope on the media horizon in Jamaica with the establishment of On the Ground News Reports”, which she called “an invaluable source of news in the wake of the May 23rd assault on Tivoli”: At first i was wary of the tweets coming from OGNR but then i noticed that almost everything they tweeted was later confirmed in the mainstream media. OGNR was providing the news live and direct almost as it happened. In fact they were the ‘social media’ that the information minister Daryl Vaz was fulminating against when the government cracked down on media here denying them access to Tivoli and its environs. Commenting on her own blog post on Twitter, she added: In Jamaica farce, intrigue and tragedy remain inextricably intertwined…http://bit.ly/9qubr …further explaining the situation – and the implications for Jamaica's future – in a piece she wrote for Channel 4 News. In a separate post on her blog, Paul explained: In a matter of weeks Coke has gone from being the most feared gang leader or strongman in Jamaica to a figure of scorn and ridicule after Police released photos of him wearing a wig and looking like an earnest church-going matron. Many are convinced that the police deliberately placed the wig on his head before photographing him in order to humiliate him and raise doubts about the awesome powers he is supposed to possess. She also put Coke's decision to waive his right to an extradition hearing in perspective: The nation which had waited with bated breath to see if Coke would actually leave the island alive heaved a sigh of relief. His ill-fated father, the legendary Jim Brown, was set ablaze in his Kingston cell on the eve of his extradition to the US for similar charges. That was in the nineties.