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Tivoli Gardens Documentary - Hard Road To Travel - Public Housing in Jamaica

The Real Jamaica 64,192 3 years ago
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This a documentary made in the late 1960s perhaps by a fledgeling Jamaica Information Service (JIS). The film chronicles the history of the Tivoli Gardens public housing development. Edward Seaga the member of parliament for the constituency was a young sociologist who formulated a plan to develop the area that was once called Back-O-Wall. The area was the location of the city dump and a sprawling shanty town that was a breeding ground for crime.

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