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Jamaican posses originated in the slums of Kingston as gangs of enforcers for the Jamaica Labour Party, led by Edward Seaga, and the rival People's National Party, headed by Michael Manley. [2] The term "posse" was adopted from Hollywood Western films, which were popular in Kingston and other impoverished areas in Jamaica.
Lester Lloyd Coke, commonly known as Jim Brown, [2] was a Jamaican drug lord and the founder of the Shower Posse, a gang based out of the Tivoli Gardens [3] garrison community in West Kingston. Coke was identified by the Netflix documentary ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff ? as present and a party to the shooting of Bob Marley on 3 December 1976.
Christopher Michael Coke was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1969, the youngest son of Lester Lloyd Coke and Patricia Halliburton.He had an older sister and brother. His father Lester Coke, who was also known as "Jim Brown", was the founder of a violent drug gang called the Shower Posse.
The Supreme Team was a street gang organized in the early 1980s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, New York, by a group of teenagers who were members of the Five-Percent Nation.
KINGSTON - Four Kingston residents were arrested this week and charged with gang assault and other felonies in connection with a non-fatal stabbing in the Kingston Plaza on March 10.
The 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.
Tivoli Gardens was developed in West Kingston, Jamaica, between 1963 [3] and 1965 [4] by demolishing and redeveloping the area of the Rastafarian settlement Back-O-Wall. [5] The area was notorious in the 1950s as the worst slum in the Caribbean, where "three communal standpipes and two public bathrooms served a population of well over 5,000 people."
cops on the scene at a Jamaica, Queens nightclub where 10 people were shot and wounded on the evening of Jan. 1, 2025; four images show four separate gunmen involved in the shooting at a Jamaica ...