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JAMAICA - GUNS, VOTES AND THE DON

By Simone Ebanks · 4 parts · 12 h 27 min · English

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Kingston, Spanish Town and Montego Bay, 1963 to 2026. Jamaica's two parties built housing schemes for their supporters, and the armed garrisons that grew inside them produced dons who delivered votes, kept order and ran drug networks into American cities. It follows that bargain from Tivoli Gardens to a Manhattan courtroom, through an incursion in which sixty-nine civilians died, into the lottery scams of the western parishes, investment schemes that swallowed the savings of tens of thousands, and the public purse, and ends with the watchdogs that now investigate the people who appoint them. Covers Christopher Coke and the Shower Posse, Lester Coke and Vivian Blake, Tesha Miller and the Klansman gang, David Smith and Olint, and Carlos Hill and Cash Plus.

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  1. Part 01

    2:49:20

  2. Part 02

    2:59:37

  3. Part 03

    2:57:38

  4. Part 04

    3:40:23

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