Tivoli Gardens, Kingston - Wikipedia
WEBTivoli Gardens is a neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica. Developed as a renewal project between 1963 and 1965, the neighbourhood continued to suffer from poverty. By the late twentieth century it had become a center of drug trafficking activity and social unrest.
The tumultuous history of Tivoli Gardens - Jamaica Gleaner
WEBMay 23, 2021 · As the prototype political garrison and the most independent urban political enclave in Jamaica, Tivoli Gardens was West Kingston’s ultimate political paradox and social challenge. The housing project was named Tivoli Gardens after one of Europe’s most outstanding music and dance theatres.
Inside Tivoli Gardens: The Reality of Life in Jamaica's ... - YouTube
WEBMay 11, 2023 · Take a journey with me as we explore Tivoli Gardens, the former worst slum in the Caribbean. Meet the people who call this place home.
2010 Kingston unrest - Wikipedia
WEBThe 2010 Kingston unrest, dubbed locally the Tivoli Incursion, was an armed conflict between Jamaica's military and police forces in the country's capital Kingston, and the Shower Posse drug cartel.
Jamaica’s Organized Crime After the Fall of Dudus Coke
WEBApr 24, 2023 · Entering the Tivoli Gardens ghetto in West Kingston, scars of the battle to arrest Jamaica’s most infamous criminal kingpin, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, in May 2010, are everywhere. Blocks of apartments remain riddled with bullet holes, where soldiers and police battled with Coke’s gunmen.
Tivoli Gardens Documentary - Hard Road To Travel - YouTube
WEBThis a documentary made in the late 1960s perhaps by a fledgeling Jamaica Information Service (JIS). The film chronicles the history of the Tivoli Gardens public housing development.
A Massacre in Jamaica | The New Yorker
WEBDec 4, 2011 · In Tivoli, blue fifty-five-gallon shipping barrels, with addresses that indicate they once travelled from London or Miami, are repurposed as hampers, barbecues, rented storage units, and garbage...
Tivoli healing through art 12 years after deadly operation
WEBSep 1, 2022 · Pondering on numerous initiatives after the operation to try and heal both young and elderly residents, social organisers in the community believe they have now found that healer — art ...
BBCCaribbean.com | Tivoli explained
WEBMay 24, 2010 · Within West Kingston is the infamous Tivoli Gardens. It's one of the most notorious of the government-built housing schemes which Jamaicans have aptly come to call "garrisons".
The remarkable history of how Tivoli Gardens was named after …
WEBMar 23, 2023 · There are many identifiable recreational centers and landmarks that have been named Tivoli, but there is one that many Jamaicans identify with, Tivoli Gardens. Its foundations were laid in the...