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.
American actor transforms into criminal gangster Whitey Bulger in the new film, “Black Mass”.
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.
Per reports, Buruji Kashamu, an alleged drug smuggler was elected senator in Nigeria.
According to the Associated Press, a man indicted in America for allegedly smuggling heroin, in a court case that was the basis for the TV hit Orange Is The New Black, has been elected a senator in Nigeria.
Buruji Kashamu was little known before he returned home in 2003 from Britain despite a US extradition order to become a major financier of President Goodluck Jonathan’s party.
Election results identify Kashamu as a senator-elect in south-west Ogun state. Opponents are challenging his victory in court, saying ballots were rigged.
Kashamu, 56, hung up the phone twice when the Associated Press called for comment about the drug case. Kashamu has said he is “a clean businessman” and that the 1998 indictment by a grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in the United States is a case of mistaken identity. He has said Chicago prosecutors really want the dead brother he closely resembles.
A British court refused a US extradition request in 2003 over uncertainty about Kashamu’s identity. Chicago Judge Richard Posner thought otherwise when he refused a motion to dismiss Kashamu’s case last year.
A dozen people were long ago tried and jailed in the case, including American Piper Kerman, whose memoir about her jail time became the Netflix hit Orange Is The New Black. Kerman’s book never identified Kashamu by name, but there is a west African drug kingpin whom she calls “Alhaji”, meaning one who has completed the haj or pilgrimage to Mecca.
A Nigerian federal court last year ordered Kashamu’s extradition, an order upheld by an appeals court. But Nigeria’s government has not extradited him.
That failure caused Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, to warn that “drug barons … will buy candidates, parties and eventually buy power or be in power themselves”.
Jonathan’s perceived protection of Kashamu was a factor that led Obasanjo to defect from the ruling party before recent elections to the opposition that won most votes in Ogun, the home state of Kashamu and Obasanjo.
Kashamu is suing Obasanjo for libel for stating that Kashamu is a fugitive from US justice. He had won a court order halting publication of Obasanjo’s autobiography but a judge this week rescinded it, saying Kashamu had misled the court. Obasanjo’s lawyer argued that the truth cannot be libel.
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, a former military dictator who had people jailed for littering in the 1980s, has promised to fight corruption. That has many politicians fearful in a country where corruption is endemic.
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.
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