Vivian Blake is dead
Ode to JLP gunmen, Tivoli Gardens Photo by Gorney66
The convicted drug boss and reported head of the ‘shower posse’, Vivian Blake has died. He came back to Jamaica last year after spending 8 years in a US jail for his leading role in a drugs gang which is thought to have been responsible for over a thousand murders.
I have written about him on this blog before click here
In that post, I write about Blake saying that he was afraid for his life and that he thought the politicians wanted him dead. All Jamaican newspapers are reporting that Blake died from an illness – read what they say here and here. Blake’s own lawyer says he had kidney disease and was on dialysis but he was admitted into hospital the day before his death following a heart attack.
All I would like to add is that this death is all the more relevant right now as Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is facing an extradition order – which the Jamaican government is refusing to comply with. Read more on that here.
There are many similarities between the two don men, Blake and Dudus, both from Tivoli Gardens in Kingston (the Prime Minister’s own constituency), both high profile criminals with money, power – political influence and secrets. Dudus is the current leader of the same shower posse according to AP.
Just how is the Dudus situation going to end and will the truth about the relationship between Jamaica’s dons and politicians ever come out?
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It will be interesting to see which politician,and businessmen will be attending the funeral of Vivian Blake.
In the past these criminals were given funerals akin to a state funeral, with their bodies lying in repose at the National Arena. It will be interesting to see what happens in the case of Vivian Blake.
boy jamaica mach up because a the gun man them. i’m a jamaican but me so glad me left a ready cause i couldn’t take that. the gun man them really mach up the place causeit’s like them a the police and the police a the gun man cause that’s what it seems like the police them need to come in full force, to get read of these gun man because them a take over the world. and them a kill too much inocent people.
[...] up the food chain. Dudus may be thinking of the fate of his associate and family friend, Vivian Blake who after serving out a sentence in the US, came back to Jamaica fearing for his life and died about [...]