Tivoli Gardens, Kingston
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Tivoli Gardens, the political Garrison, is a West Kingston neighbourhood
Neighbourhood
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 in Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica
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. Tivoli Gardens has been the scene of confrontation between gunmen and security forces in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and during the 2010 Kingston unrest
2010 Kingston unrest
An armed conflict between the Shower Posse and Jamaica's military in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, has killed at least 73 civilians and wounded at least 35 others since 23 May 2010...

. It is home to the alleged drug 'Don
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' Christopher Coke
Christopher Coke
Michael Christopher Coke , also known as Dudus, is a Jamaican drug lord and the leader of the Shower Posse gang. He is the son of drug lord Lester Lloyd Coke...

. A monument called Lest We Forget in the form of a black cross at the corner of Darling Street and Spanish Town Road has the names of four people who died in the 1997 incident and twenty-seven people who died in the 2001 incident engraved on it.

History

Tivoli Gardens was developed between 1963 and 1965 by demolishing and redeveloping Back-O-Wall, and is named after a theatre which is now called the Queen's Theatre.
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