The Dudus Connection
Dudus - photo Sunday Herald
Things are starting to unravel in Jamaica, as the drug money link between dons and politicians, starts to get the media attention it deserves.
The United States want Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke – the notorious don man of Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston for trafficking drugs and guns. But will the ruling Jamaica Labour Party give him up?
The connections are many. They are outlined here and include,
a construction company called Incomparable Enterprises, where Dudus is a partner was awarded three govt contracts by the JLP valued at $ US 400 thousand.
Another contract worth a $US 150,000 contract, was given to transport materials to Riverton City landfill.
Dudus heads up the entertainment company Presidential Click which organises the very popular Champions In Action event.
Police say that Dudus also owns several residences, including this house in Plantation Heights, Red Hills, St Andrew.
This is Dudus's house in Red Hills- looks real nice
This house is a far cry from the living conditions of the residents of Tivoli Gardens, people are said to fear him and love him. I’ve written more about passa passa in this blog post - a dance he keeps which is not subject to the 2am noise laws.
Conditions in Tivoli are not so lavish- photo by miss patricia
The former national security minister – Peter Phillips from the opposition Peoples’ National Party has spoken up on the issue, predictably saying the government should give Dudus to the Americans.
So what’s stopping them? Dudus’s money has bought him alot of power in the JLP, will it be enough to protect him?
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I AM A JAMAICAN LIVING IN NORTH AMERICA FOR MANY YEARS,WHILE I WAS LIVING IN JAMAICA I HAD CLOSE TIES WITH THE THEN RULING PNP PARTY.I HAVE FOLLOWIED THE POLITICS IN JAMAICA MOST OF YOUTHS WERE ARMED BY THE SAME POLITICIANS THAT IS PUTTING THEIR HANDS IN THE AIR AND WONDERIGING HOW COULD JAMAICA HAVE REACH THIS STAGE WITH THUGS ROAMING THE STREETS WITH GUNS.THEY THE POLITICIANS ARE THE ONE WHO CREATED THESE MONSTERS.I DONT THINK JAMAICA SHOULD HAND OVER DUDDUS,IAM IMPRESS WITH THE WAY HE CONTROLS HIS ENVIORNMENT.I THINK HE SHOULD BE THE PERSON RUNNING JAMAICA.I HAVE NEVER MET HIM,BUT IAM VERRY IMPRESS WITH HIS LEVEL OF CONTROL IN THE GARRISON COMMUNITY OF JAMAICA.WHO WOULD THINK THAT THE DAY WOULD COME WHEN YOU COULD LEAVE ARNETT GARDENS AND GO TO TIVOLI TO WATCH A MATCH WITHOUT ENDING UP DEAD.
I understand that you appreciate the security that a man like Dudus provides to the local area.
But at what cost? Is there a wider picture here that you should be taking into consideration?
Why is Dudus feared? What has he done to get to where he is today? Should his bad man status make him untouchable? should any corruption and collusion with the politicians be overlooked? Just so you can watch a football match in peace?
I think you miss the point i am making.We need more people like dudus in jamaica.Do you understand that every youth in Jamaica wants to be a moviestar,the country is at point where no one listen.Just imagine a company without a manager.
Mario239303. Do you know what it feels like to live somewhere and can’t cross a street because it’s a boundary?. Now picture that street been two blocks away. As simple as a Football match seems to you It’s a LUXURY FOR US. Free your self from mental Slavery.
I THINK THEY SHOULD LEAVE DUDUS IN JAMAICA WHERE HE BELONGS….WHAT IS JUSTICE IN AMERICA IS NOT JUSTICE IN JAMAICA!THEY RELEASE RAPIST LIKE COMMON SHOPLIFTERS BUT THEY ALWAYS WANT TO PUNISH EVERYONE ELSE(ESPECIALLY JAMAICANS) TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW FOR ANY CRIME THEY CAN PIN ON YOU!!!!IF AN AMERICAN MAN WAS TRAFFICKING DRUGS AND GUNS TO JAMAICAN, AND JAMAICAN DEMANDED AN EXTRADITION…..AMERICA WOULD LAUGH AT THEM, THEY PROTECT THEIR OWN AND WE SHOULD TOO
AS A FORMER TOP SHOTTAH DAT BEEN PON DI BATTLE FIELD OF GARDEN FOR MANY YEARS, PRESIDENT RUN DI RESIDENT…..SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!
if this man leaves jamaica,our economy will continue drop because crime and violence will increase and if something was wrong with, then so many people would’nt be on his side. face it, this man does more things for the country than the politicians so what will happen without him.
Love All, Hate none.
What are you referring to as mental slavery, think about the millions of people Dudus has enslaved by running a communism within jamaica, are you even privy to what’s taking place behind the walls of TG. The Jamaican government has created a monster which has single handed infested the country with major corruption and all you can think about is the freedom to watch a football match. What about the freedom for contractors to bid on jobs and not have Dudus’s so called contractors have all the jobs because of the fear he drives into people…what about the freedom to have “u ooman an dudus an him fren dem nuh sen man come fuc har because he’s the so called don” These are the type of things and many many many more acts of evil that takes place in TG and around Jamaica by the hands of Dudus. So stop follow the hype and sit back hold a medz, per say and consider the greater good. Taking Dudus to face the music won’t solve all the issues Jamaica (MY COUNTRY) has but it will surely be a step in the right direction. What ever happened to promoting the greater good?
wake up my people ,and face reality jamaica is heading in the wrong direction.from ever since we get our independence.we don’t have a government that have things in control,more than these monsters who have killed people throughout the island for years. first thing the police force is corrupt whichsoever party is in power they only pay attention to their party supporters while the others perish,and the country go deeper into poverty
wise words garfield
people don’t be fool the boss bigger than the prime minister and the govern general if unno want Jamaica to be like Gaza or Haiti touch him lolololololololol ahhhhhhhhhhh sah
who in the PNP to say this gov. should give up dudus. didn.t they denie knowing Kennet Black? what happen to Tony Brown and George Flash when they where wanted
dave rose – two wrongs do not make a right, we all know the PNP have no right to say anything as their hands are just as dirty as JLP – no difference there, but no good can come out of blaming one or the other.
SELASSIE I COME FIRST,BUT I HAVE TO BIG UP DUDUS,HE IS MY HOPE IN JAMAICA,I LOOK UP TO THIS MAN ,FOR THE RADIACAL WORKS HE IS DOING,TAKE HIM AWAY AND U’LL HAVE A CIVIL WAR,PEOPLE VERSUS BABYLON.”HE THAT IS SLOW TO WRATH,IS SLOW TO ANGER:BLESS MR COKE
IF HE AS DONE U NO ARM LET BYGONE BE BYGONES,IF U DONT SEE ANYTHING TO DIE FOR,U SHOULD NOT LIVE,TO I “DUDUS” IS MARCUS GARVEY.ONE LOVE,SHORT MAN SEND THE YUTES DEM TO SCHOOL,BABYLON VEX WITH THE MAN ,TRU HIM NAW WAR WITH THE PNP MAN DEM,HIM SAY PEACE,SO BABYLON DONT HAVE ANY WORK,I WILL DIE FOR PREZI.JAH GUIDE HIM STEP DEM,LOVE LIV UP, MORE LIFE JAH T,SEE IT DE,BIG RESPECT TO OX”JIM BROWN”,EVER LOYAL ,LOVE CHRIS ROYAL.
Wow, that’s all I can say… the presented arguments are two(2) dimensional, ITS difficult to reach a balanced conclusion. SIGH
ras you are so full of shit its a disgrace to see you comparing the right hon MARCUS GARVY TO DUDUS A OUT RIGHT known killer i think you sould be the one sent to school so what if we have 100 dudus would that save our lovely country
Dudus a di bosss!!! bless him up! there are three parts to jamaica. the good, the bad, the ugly!!the bad was created by all the politicians in jamaica from the early 80’s till now..both pnp and jlp. both governments armed the garrisons fi mash dem works!!! (used the youths dem) then the same politicians play games fi get rid of the same youths dem.!!!
the good: Dudus send nuff youths to school, bring peace to “Jamaica” and is the “the real government” he has done more for communities than any politician in jamaica!!! There is a saying ” only the elites want to conquor the world, by any means” and a this rast a tell people from me a bwoy!!!!!
the ugly: the same people who want dudus a the same people who created him for there use.. now them dun with him!!!
Big up Dudus!! nuff respect and belssings!!!
Interesting comparative images of Dudus’residence and the stalls of Tivoli Gardens !!
Those stalls are not of tivoli. they are of the the nearby coronation market area
dudus is the man who control the youth them from not killing each other ,thing the US goverment should leave him alone because what they are saying is not true.we need prove ,dudus is the real big man & we love him.
I LEFT JAMAICA WHEN I WAS 8, BUT STILL SEE MY COUNTRY AS YESTERDAY. I DONT KNOW ALOT ABOUT DUDUS, BUT IF THE MAN HAVE TINGS UNDA CONTROL WHY TROUBLE HIM NOW. IT MUST NE SOMEONE IN HIS ORGANIZATION WHO DOES NOT WANT PEACE GIVE HIM UP. WHEN YOU INNA GANG SOMEONE ELSE ALWAYS WANST YOUR POSITION, BUT SAYING THAT TG UNDER CONTROL, PASSA PASSA NICE UP,(NO GUNSHOTS UNLESS AH DUDUS MAN DEM AH BUSS IT) I LIKE THAT IT SHOWS CONTROL. YOU LOSE HIM YOU LOSE THE CONTROL AND FOR SURE JAMAICANSWILL BE AT NO MECRY TO ANY GANG WHO WANTS TO MOVE IN. WHATEVER HAPPENS I HOPES IT FOR THE BEST. GOLDING I HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING
what is golding waiting for why this criminal is not arrested yet
army and police your job is to provide security for the country security forces do your job help the jamaican people
It is very sad but it is true that politics has made this happen. However, people who say Dudus controls the crime in downtown Kingston maybe right. But on the other hand Dudus send the criminals elsewhere to rob and kill other people in places like Montego Bay and Clarendon. So the crime rises at an alarming rate. I feel very bad for the people in mental slavery that actually think that Dudus could rule Jamaica and stay and do what he has been doing. Remember Jim Brown he was burnt in his cell who do you think was behind it? The real “BIG MAN” not Dudus or any little shotta youth, the men who run Jamaica who decide when you come and when you go. Dudus time now!
A lot of you guys making comments about this situation never been in the garrison community on a day to basis to know how these places run.If the Jamaican police can restore law and order then how comes so much people is dying daily.Mark my words take away dudus and see what the west will look like.There will be no law and order and because their is so much copycats ,every community is going to want to be namebrand.
um which 1 a unu liv ya wat goes on in d garden is far from communism but rather freedom in a well controlled setting bein here 4 18yrs i shud knw so dnt judge based on rumours n d negativ image d media portrays,jus tink about it
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Im American and Ive to Jamaica many many times and ive never felt safer in Jamaica Ghettos more than i felt safe there. The problem is that Goverment offical need the steets like the streets need the Government offical. But i feel that Jamaica should me loyal to there own and keep him safe. Go Dudus the people love U Prezzy
Tivolite ur so right and people should let uno handle uno business. Atleast ur Prez make sure every1 eats
Dudus is no different a man than george washington (1st US president). Back then in 1775 “they” called GW a rebel an outlaw, is the same title them want to place on dudus. but a the best thing, why? bcuz a di same way GW did set fi him ting a di same way Prezi run fi him ting.
an fi everybody that argue over the inequality between him an the ones that follow:
IF U DONT WORK/HUSTLE/JUGGLE/DO SOMETHING U DONT GET PAID. it simple as that.
All hail the PreZident of Jamaica.
DUDUS FI DEAD.
NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO,DUDUS IS GOING DOWN.IT’S AN UNSEALED INDICTMENT,SO HE HAS NO OTHER CHOICE.IF IT TAKES 5 OR 10 YEARS ,THE U.S. HAS TO GET THERE MAN.AND IT BE IN JAMAICA’S BEST INTEREST TO HAND HIM OVER.
Seriously, every order have a price. Talk about the greater good? Why not have all the bad man dem a eat from one source. Let them out make dem eat a road everybody suffer. Been To TG have fren deh. Leff me car open cause music a play and alarm will go off. nuff times. nobody no trouble you. Mr coke does nothing that the politicians themselves do not do. sorry except making promises and not fulfill them. Politicians do more harm than he does. and i am sure there are more politicians that deserve to be sent to the gallows before you even think about touching Mr. Coke. Crime will always be a monster and we do not have the resources or a proper police force to maintain calm and peace at the grass root level. But you have a man like Mr. Coke that set the order and maintain it and you want to give him up. At what price? we need to be careful.
So we have a problem with fear. Fear of what? fear of order.
If a man step out a bounds there are consequences. Will a man step out of bounds? no. Me naw violate cause you know say u mustn’t violate or else.
But if you know you might get away, you might try.
You know what we need to take this man from TG, for real. lets send him to Gordon House..
LET US DEAL WITH THE ISSUE,WANTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO TRAFFICK DRUG AND GUNS IN THE US,SUCH A JOKE,I WAS IN MIAMI RECENTLY SO MUCH DRUGS AND GUNS ON THE STREET FOR SALE AND THEY CANT CATCH THOSE GUYS IN MIAMI,BUT THEY WANT TO COME TO JAMAICA FOR SOMEONE WHO THEY CLAIM STAYED IN JAMAICA AND CONSPIRED TO SELL ARMS IN NEW YORK,WHY DID THEY NOT INTERCEPT THE ARMS AND DRUGS IF THEY KNEW OF THE CONSPIRACY THAT OCCURED IN 1994,WHAT A JOKE,YOU CHARGE SOMEONE WITH CONSPIRACY 14 YEARS AFTER THE CONSPIRACY TOOK PLACE.WHERE IS THE DRUGS AND THE ARMS THAT HE CONSPIRED TO SELL IN THE USA,WHAT A JOKE.AS FOR DR. PETER PHILLIPS AND THE PNP THEY ARE SUCH HYPOCRITES.WAS HE AT THE FRONT ROW OF WILLIE HAGGARTS’FUNERAL ALONG WITH OMAR DAVIES AND KARL BLYTHE AND MANY OTHERS, IS DR. PHILLIPS STILL A DRUG USER/ABUSER? I DARE HIS HIS FRIENDS TO ANSWER NO,JUST TO LET YOU ALL KNOW WILLIE HAGGART WAS IN THE USA,KENNETH ‘SKENG DON’ BLACK WAS ALSO THERE,WHAT KIND OF JOB DID THEY HOLD DOWN SHOW HIS THEIR RECORD.
The picture shown is not of any residence in Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli Gardens consists of attached dwellings and high rise buildings. This pictaure appears to be of a stall outside the market area. Come on people, please give a more accurate depiction.
I think they should turn this guy over to the US. It’s people like him who distroy our country. I am from East kingston and I have a daughter who’s grown and has never been to Jamaica. I am shamed I am can’t go back to my home town and show her where I grew up. The schools I went to just because of a few degenerates. Jamaican have always think we are better than everybody else. I think it’s time we take a look at ourselves.
Yow a which dudus dem a talk a nuh my king a couldn’t shortman highly unlikely dem a try tek garden man lightly dem better mine dem overcrowb dung a maddon
the reality is that Dudus drives fear into the people around him to maintain his power. i cant respect a man who deals drugs and guns while he himself and his henchmen defiles young girls who are as young as age 12.
my family had to leave our home in tivoli. we moved out of garden but rented the home we worked damn hard for to an old lady. Jah T (Dudus brother) seized the house for one of his woman. When we went to the most corrupt the hon. Edward Seaga for assistance he simply asked us who told us to leave tivoli. I have personally witness the murder of a friend by men from tivoli because my friends father is from matches lane they accused him of being an informer due to where is father lives.
what about the woman who asked dudus to simply lock up her son for a time in one of the prison cells because her son was being rude. her son was taken from the cell and killed by dudus hench men who were coming from a raid and didnt know why he was in the cell. the cell he was placed in was the death cell. i.e. anyone placed in that cell was due to die.
people may believe that there is law and order in tivoli…there is only fear….yes you can leave your car unlocked, no one will trouble it…..because people are well aware that if you steal in tivoli the perpetrator will be beaten or killed.
I have see too many mothers having to send their teenage daughter to dudus because he or his men demand sex.
What about all the business owners that are being extorted by dudus in the cross roads to down town area?
dudus may run tivoli but his power spans most major garrison areas of the country this is due mostly to his ability to distribute drugs/guns coming in from the kingston wharves where 2/3 of the workers there are from tivoli and the former police commissioner can sign clearance for recent shipments of ak47s to enter the island without being checked. kgn wharves is a few meters from tivoli.
has anyone even looked into the fact the the prime minister of this country is not allowed to occupy the jlp constituency office in tivoli. the doors are chained and only edward seaga is allowed to enter. The prime minister had to have his office located in payne land.
rumours which are actually true:
Dudus sent men to KSAC making threats….desmond mckenzie came out saying that it was untrue when the employees of the KSAC themselves had to call the police for protection. but then again D Mckenzie is from tivoli.
Vivian Blakes brother was recently killed by thugs from tivoli under the guise of a robbery.
today dudus has sent threats to the media houses to desist from carry the extradition in the media.
there is a lot more to be said about tivoli and dudus….the politicians (seaga, desmond mckenzie etc) but not now.
There is only three known avenues that can be taken.
1. the corrupt politicians will find a way to kill dudus before extradition happens to protect themselves……this will cause war within the country and fall out with the US
2. dudus will be extradited after police/military force battles his hencemen across the island
3. dudus will decide to leave the island on his own and peacefully…..leaving a successor
MAd – thanks so much for your very interesting and informative post – you make very excellent points
It all started back in the ’80s with the then government establishing strongholds, garrisons, protecting dons and other criminal. The Politicians in Jamaica are no better than Dudus, they are birds of a feather so how are we expecting our country to move forward?
I am a Jamaican and Jamaica should give up (dudus) to America. that fool earlier who dares to compare MARCUS GARVEY with common criminal dudus. Is he a leader with any moral to pass on? Has he in any way contributed to peace in Janaica? look at Jamaica’s murder rate it is a shame to all that is good in this world.I know there are those who will defend him because they are worthless and good for nothing dont want to work and want to live off blood money.
ALL YOU WORTHLESS PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO JUST GO AROUND GETTING CHILDREN AND WAIT FOR dudus TO SEND YOU CHILDREN TO SCHOOL, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. UNNU NO KNO BOUT BIRTH CONTROL? UNNO TOOOOOOOOOOO WORTHLESS!!!!!…..
every man of to face their destiny, so if its destine for the president of tivoli fi guh dung nobody can stop it. but nuff tings is going to happen if that man should guh dung. nuff a uno a talk uno not even kno di man. uno jus chat to much, real nigga shit this pussyole a seh prezzy a dis prezzy a dat who worthless round prezzy. u aint shit, prezzy can be compare to marcus garvey cause he is the marcus garvey of our time
The most honorable Edward seaga must be shaking in his boots. It must be bringing back memories of 1992, like father like son, as just like his father dudus is wanted by the united states. It was feared that if dudus father sang like a bird then names like Edward seaga my form some of the beautiful melodies! So what did the minister do? He did wat anyone in his shoes would he captured and had dudus killed? Think of it, a day before he was supposed to be extradited, he was killed. Who gains? Seagas old ears must be ringing a loud melody in fact he must be very torment thinking of how he can help his buddy from being extradited or how he can let the same fate that befalled dudus father befall-ed dudus as well! Certainly for all the wrong Mr seaga did in his days he should pay for some before judgment day! building and Maintaining Garisons Supplying and Distributing Guns. Killing innocents an not so innocent people, you name it. The united states should pressure us to give him up infact they should give us a deadline!
No wonder the Island is the way it is when you have people who suppose to know better or so we thought is bigging up a well known criminal,it does’nt matter how much good he’s done if his means are ill gotten the he should face justice. Have any of you ever stop to think how many lives have been ruin by drugs and gun think about it because the next one could be yours or someone close to you, he should be put to trial and if found guilty should be put to death.
What kind of people are the ones who say we should not arrest Dudus and extradite him. In the USA he will be tried under a sysytem where he will recieve no special favor. Some of the people leaving comments here obviously, don’t have a job or are educated enough to know how badly the international community, including tourists and most importantly foreign governments and INVESTORS are looking at this issue after the JLP promised transparency and change.The man is a known criminal.
How many deaths has he been responsible for? Let us not continue to be known as backward, criminal-loving people.
If he is not surrenderes to the US, the USA should refuse to issue any new visas to ANY Jamaicans.
Dudus should be arrested and sent to the feds and if any bad man talk bout shooting and killing in retaliation mek dem know say the JDF will be sent in to “neutralize” all bad man. Bad man will start to disappear and their families will be harrassed. we must be governed by laws and murderers should be brought to justice. We will not be held hostage to a bunch of child-raping, drugdealing, cowards.
Dudus must sent to the feds and if any bad man talk bout shooting and killing in retaliation mek dem know say the JDF will be sent in to “neutralize” all bad man. Bad man will start to disappear and their families will be harrassed. we must be governed by laws and murderers should be brought to justice. We will not cower to a bunch of child-raping, drugdealing, cowards.