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Tivoli Enquiry Commission Tours The West Kingston Community Of Tivoli Gardens; Home Of ‘Dudus’ Coke

The Commission of Enquiry visited Tivoli Gardens on Friday as part of its probe into the operation of May 2010 to apprehend then don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. The announcement was made on Tuesday by Commission Chairman Sir David Simmons.

The bus departed the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston at 9:30 am for Tivoli Gardens. The tour ran for roughly 3 hrs.

The tour route included most of the sites mentioned during the enquiry.

Tivoli Gardens is a garrison community located in West Kingston and is the birthplace and former ruling grounds of the Jamaican drug lord.

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Haiti Two Years After the Quake

On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti. More than 220000 people were killed and over 300000 injured.

My women’s charity, The Prettie Committee, has since been dedicated to providing relief efforts to the people of Haiti.

Join our efforts to “Benefit Haiti” with your donations of clothing and personal care items. No cash donations accepted.

For more information on how you can help Benefit Haiti, click here.

HAITI SAK PLEN

On January 12th, the Haitian people “celebrated” the two-year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake which took the lives of some 360,000 men, women, and children. What they celebrated was not the tragedy itself, but the progress which has been made since that fateful day.

With the exception of the downtown area, referred to as “Le Ville,” which may never the rubble has been largely removed, erasing the superficial physical traces, but not the profound emotional scars. Families separated, faculties stolen, children orphaned – this was a tragedy on a unimaginable scale for people who already endure a grinding poverty with little hope for much more than incremental progress generation after generation.

Yet, you’d never know it from looking at them. These are a people who are too proud to wallow in defeat. Huge factories and entrepreneurial individuals alike churn out grey cinder blocks – the staple to Haitian construction –…

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Hollywood Actor Johnny Depp Becomes Crime Boss Whitey Bulger

Johnny Depp is one of my absolute favorite Hollywood actors of all time, especially when he plays a gangster.

He won my heart ~~and money~~ when he starred in the “Hollyhood” blockbuster, “Blow” –a biopic about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung.

I was more than excited to hear he was back on the gangster scene with his portrayal of Irish crime boss Whitey Bulger.

“Black Mass” will be in theaters in the fall, and I have already prepared a safe place for the DVD deep within my bountiful gangster flick collection.

Right next to “Blow”…

Peep the trailer below!

Via Time:

Johnny Depp is famous for taking on roles that require some serious transformations, but decades into his career, it’s still a shock to see him as Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger in the trailer for Black Mass. The actor is nearly unrecognizable in the somewhat unconventional trailer, which mostly consists of one derailed dinner party scene to convey just how creepy and threatening Bulger, a convicted murder currently in prison, could be.

Black Mass, which also stars Kevin Bacon and Benedict Cumberbatch, hits theaters Sept. 18.