Tivoli Gardens, Kingston

Tivoli Gardens, the political Garrison, is a West Kingston neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica. Tivoli Gardens has been the scene of confrontation between gunmen and security forces in 1997, 2001, 2005,^[1] 2008^[2] and during the 2010 Kingston unrest. It is home to the alleged drug 'Don' Christopher 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.^[3]

History

Tivoli Gardens was developed between 1963^[4] and 1965^[5] by demolishing and redeveloping Back-O-Wall,^[6] and is named after a theatre which is now called the Queen's Theatre.^[4]

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