Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has promise to reinstate order after at least 31 deaths throughout an anti-drug unpleasant in Kingston.
He said he regret the loss of life as safety forces battled armed forces loyal to a supposed drug dealer wanted by the United States.
Mr. Golding said the police carry on searching for illegal armaments and criminal suspect.
Stay The place of heavy criminal Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is unidentified.
He has thousands of loyal group who have promised to defend him at all expenses.
Police say they have under arrest more than 200 people and seized arms and bullets in operation involving thousands of policemen and soldiers heavuily armed and back by unbreakable vehicle and helicopter.
New gun battle raged Tuesday as police and soldiers search Kingston's Tivoli Gardens district of Mr Coke.
The hostility has regularly infertile the road to Kingston's airport, forcing some flights to be given up for lost.
Western countries like the United States and Britain have warned their citizens against itinerant to Kingston and the nearby area under the current situation.
"Trucks piled with bodies
Golding prime minister have conventional Mr Coke exile to the United States last week after a delay for nine months report to Parliament on the catastrophe.
"The process was conducted under the urgent situation powers of extraordinary measures, but they are an unusual reaction to a strange challenge to the safety and safety of our citizens," he said.
It added that the administration deeply regretted "the loss of life of members of the safety forces and the innocent law-abiding citizens who were wedged in the crossfire."
Estimates of the numbers killed vary from 1931 to 1960, but approximately all the victims are said to be civilians.
Police director of infrastructure Karl Angell said that 26 civilians had been killed and 25 injured in Tivoli.
Thurs the 2nd civilians were shot dead by suspected supporters of Mr Coke in Spanish Town, an area 14 miles (22 km) west of Kingston, officials said.
At least three members of the safety forces were also killed in the aggression which began on Sunday.
Hospital sources told AFP that more than 60 bodies were unload Tuesday at a morgue in Jamaica capital's hospitals.
AFP's reporter was told by the first two trucks that had provided "some 50 bodies" to the Kingston Public Hospital, then witness the third truck, "stack with bodies riddled with firing wounds, including a baby."
A nurse counted 12 bodies on the third car, "said reporter.
'Big on Human Rights “
A state of crisis has been in place in parts of Kingston since Friday, when more than a few police station were attacked.
Mr. Coke, 41, insists he is a legitimate manufacturer and has the support of many poor Kingston inhabitants, who see him as a sponsor.
The U.S. Justice Department accuses him of being one of the world's most dangerous drug barons.
Jamaica's Education Minister, Andrew Holness, told BBC World Service that the establishment had the situation under control.
"The government is always in control, we never lost control," he said.
Security forces were acting according to law, he insisted, adding: "This government is one that is big on defensive human rights."
Violence has not touched the tourist areas along the Caribbean island of North Shore, which lies more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Kingston or Montego Bay airport, the Associated Press information.
But several hotels reported cancellation.
"I'm very worried," said Wayne Cummings, President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist friendship.
"The entire Caribbean and the world try to pull out of recession. This type of hit, if you could call it that, come at a very, very bad time."
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