Tivoli Enquiry Chairman Tours The West Kingston ‘Rasta City’ Neighborhood Raided By Police During Christopher Coke Manhunt

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Signs marking territory within Tivoli Gardens community once ruled by The Shower Posse/ Christopher Dudus Coke. Photo: Christopher Edmonds

The chairman of the Tivoli Commission of Enquiry, Sir David Simmons made his first stop of the tour in Rasta City, an area of the Tivoli Gardens community.

Local residents there openly complained that police officers conducting the tour were not taking the chairman to the right areas of the community.

They told Simmons that Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke left the community about 10:00 am on May 24, 2010 and then the police entered the community, firing shots at residents without justification.

The chairman was then taken through a hole in a wall where residents showed him areas where alleged police abuse took place and homes were severely damaged during the incursion.

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

tivolijamThe 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

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

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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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