The full extent and magnitude of the decades-long link between Jamaican government and don power is on unprecedented display as lays siege to terrified city. Organized gunmen have crossed party lines in to defend their territories and their “arrangement.” in a battle that pits secutity forces against its people in a battle that leaves them outmatched and outgunned.
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Jamaica News: Kingston Under Siege, Extradition Warrant Signed for Christopher Dudus Coke
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christopher Dudus Coke, ChristopherDudusCoke, Jamaica Labor Party, Jamaica news, Jamaica state of emergency, JamaicaLaborParty, JamaicaNews, JamaicaStateOfEmergency, Julian Robinson, JulianRobinson, Peoples National Party, PeoplesNationalParty, Private Sector Organization, PrivateSectorOrganization, Tom Tavares-Finson, TomTavares-finson on May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dispatch From Kingston: Diplomacy and the Tivoli Don
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bruce Golding, Christopher Coke, Christopher Dudus Coke, dudus, garrison, jamaica, Jamaica extradition, Jamaica politics, Kingston, Shower Posse, tivoli Gardens, US Department of Justice, US-Jamaica relations on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is a thunderstorm raging over Jamaica that threatens to capsize the island’s already hobbled economy and put its government in a diplomatic quandary with the United States. Last August, the U.S. Department of Justice issued an extradition warrant for the arrest of Christopher “Dudus” Coke, reputed don of West Kingston’s infamous Tivoli Gardens garrison. Coke, counted among the “world’s most dangerous narcotics kingpins” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), has been charged with conspiracy to traffic firearms and to distribute marijuana and cocaine.