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

Although this experiment devolved into a political garrison and a new "back a wall", I will give Mr. Seaga credit for dreaming of a better society. I am sure that some of the people of Tivoli have used the experiment to lift themselves out of poverty and into a better life. We must all continue to dream.

This documentary brought tears to my eyes. True community development and nation building. What a visionary Mr. Seaga was! I have new found respect for him. ONE LOVE🇯🇲

Everybody dressed decently, well groomed and no false hair back in those days, can we please bring this style back.

I remember those days when I was little boy from denham town I use to love and visit my cousins and friends in tivoli and love going to the library and then after watching the drum corp practicing when Paul Dushing was the drum major

An amazing initiative to restore hope in individuals needing to experience a different kind of life has now returned to what it was prior. I will continue to pray to see a transformation in this historical community 😢🙏🏾

The man was a visionary. Respect

Very impressive I didn't know all this, the leaders then did well and truly we can see that

When "Back a wall" was transformed into Tivoli Garden the only thing it didn't have was a fire station. it was a good initiative, however we all see how it turn out....

I see decency and respect in this. I may have been around too. I was born at jubilee hospital in Denham Town. This is my born ground

To God be the Glory great things He has done. Greatness is a Humanitarian bread. Jamaica the Land we love, thanks Mr Seaga and the ones who make it possible.

The last time Seaga toured Tivoli, he said he wished he could tear it down ..Now the mother of all garrison

I really enjoyed watching this video, it gave me a lot of insight into the history of Kingston and politics around that time.

This documentary will help bring love and great change towards peace and honor to the beautiful land of Jamaica 🇯🇲 🙏🏾 ❤️ ✨️ I am a seed of greatness, and Tivoli's beauty will rebirth. "The rose that grew from concrete." IamOmegasWill ❤

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

The politicians today should take a page from his book!

I remember growing up hearing about Tivoli Gardens and imagined this place being like the wild Wild West. The very first time I walked through the community after becoming a student at Tivoli Gardens Comprehensive I couldn’t believe my eyes,was this the place that people feared, that upon entering would be instant torture and death. I walked through that community five days a week, I ate at PWD,I had lunch in the community and not once did I have any need to worry or fear. Now is a total different time, the area is plagued with violence and truly lives up to it’s moniker “Mother of all garrisons”.

Wow! this is what was needed for all communities in Jamaica that surely would have given the great majority of people a chance. Instead a lot of them were forced to leave Jamaica to look for a new life abroad to find work. In so doing a lot of them experienced poor housing and general institutional racism for years. They would have been better off in a community like this documentary shows in their own country of Jamaica. Tivoli gardens back then was a thriving community and the vision for it was on point. Corruption today has prevented a lot of Jamaicans in poor communities from experiencing this kind of development. Even Britain could have learnt from such a vision back in those days, a third world country that achieved this. Wish I was brought up in such an environment that I could have thrived in that way. All benefitted from babies to pensioners. A true utopia society. I found the documentary extremely encouraging. I’ve never known a prime minister in my life time to have done this. These documentaries should be shown in schools to show parents and children how a thriving environment impacts their future.

As much as I am opposed to the politics of Mr. Seaga I admired the development of " bakka wall" into the Community of TG. Sad to see it evolved into the garrison of garrisons.

Big up to west kg born and part grow seaga was about education amd improvement in his division,born right kph live right beside Denham tow station my mada move to Oxford Street I love my growing up there but that 70s election did a toll in west kg,am really happy my mom was one othe smart parents back then who took us away from the crime and voilence, 😢it was too much nah forget weh me come from.thank you for this reminiscing ❤if politics didn't step in oxford st would've look like tivoli gardens that was his plan and the next party won and that idea was shelve😢in the 80's they did build a couple buildings in rema and surroundings Though seaga was well love by tg that is why he never lose that seat ever.

People looked fine natural beauty, it is sad i can see big from then to know, please bring back that first Lovex

Exactly what I should've added in my post. If the party that took over in 1972 had followed suit. Jamaica would be a first world country today.

I'm 10 mins in this flim and I'm very confused how this concept didn't work out for Tiloli Garden! Because this idea is gold! What happened!?

Boi dem days were good I can recall the free zone that was created for job creation Seaga wanted betterment for the people of the country

This is the same method used in the United States...every ghetto was once a shining new "housing projects "

The plan is legendary but over time, the evolution of that community became a disaster.

Thank you for this great piece of history. Sadly anytime something is an "experiment" or a "project" created for poor black people, it's usually becomes a problem, why? Well because it starts off like a well oiled machine, being cultivated and cared for by it's donors and inhabitants. Until something goes wrong and the people get depressed and anxious and the donors disappear, then the machine gets rusty and can't move anymore and everyone suffers.

And then after all this tivoli gardans turn out bad and in to a ghetto under the watchful eve of bruse golding smh look how beautiful Tivoli garden was back then

Wow wow so it can be done Jamaica can be uplifted

Beautiful video, please bring back ❤ that first Love

Omg where did all that vision went mighty God Mr seaga did a marvelous work in developing that community look how much amenities were created for the community. If Jamaica had stayed on that path we would’ve been so industrious, but a the same ppl dem mash up the community

Jamaica was really on the right path

And hopefully none of those youngsters end up as gunmen and waste their life’s all in the name of loyalty to politics and greediness 😢

This is a very true story.

God is love ❤️ love my people one love ❤️

I see the current pm holness trying but not hard enough!.today I saw pics of a social housing beneficiary who was crying and I was moved,I do hope his initiatives can reach thousands more!

Papa Eddie. The man wasn't for no handout. He created vision and jobs for his people. RIP

Love this vedio everyone innocent

This is fascinating. I guess 1972 had something to do with what happened there after.

This was one member of parliament who spent taxpayer money on the people and not only himself

The word of God says the poor will be poorer and the rich shall be richer still

Now i see and know for sure andrew is the worst prime minister thus far

When Jamaica was nice

This is shocking to watch knowing what Tivoli Gardens is now. How did it go from such a promising new development to one of the most precarious areas of the city ?

So it seems the opposition party influenced the political arena that brought this into a shootout alley in the late 70’s and 80’s. Seaga brought hope and advancement to the dirt poor and the future of their children.

HELL on earth I use to spend holidays there with my aunt she was the spiritual mother for Eddie Seaga at Ebenezer Zionist church and one of the first tenant who moved in on Keith Avenue

Before being named Jamaica Information Service it was called API. I can't recall what those initials meant

Wow, everybody under HEAVY manners! But what happened? How did we get from that wonderful utopia back then to where we are now?

what year was this documentary made I am guessing the late sixties early seventies but exactly when in that time . Great channel this is and a great documentary . Many I know did not like Seaga said the worse PM Jamaica ever had but I liked him and I could vote in Jamaica JLP all the way , and hope they win the next elections .

One of the toughest political garrisons

Good history lesson. It would be interesting to see what has transpired over the years from this documentary and see what it’s like now. Was the experiment sustained.

Is the Kiwanis Center still up and running anyone knows?

Lee Kwan Yu saw our master plan and run wid it. We on the other hand burned our original copy of the master pan.

I remembered Jamal, now kids are bragging about being Dunce.

29:15 what song?

He didn’t work with ministers of housing Wilton Hill, what he did he made himself prime minister and minister of finance, so the money was controlled by him.

Beautifully dressed babies sweet 💕

The best Prime Minister and MP in Jamaica's History.

When did evil step in????!!!

What happened .

Tivoli was a tribute to eddie seaga lebanese jewish heritage

A swear this scene 26:15 is completely staged...🤣. I also like the part about 2 man police team having nothing to do and that people walk about freely day and night without fear, yet, burglar bars (grille) are seen on the flats.

This whole Garden thang is American Government u can find these same Garden inna Los Angeles....Nickerson Garden Avalon Garden etc....

They even cut out the part in the song and said seaga name there vewing him as there god smh you cant do that thats why Tivoli is like that

When did all this change!! I will say politics..cuz Tivoli now is a Dump!!! Wudn live dh so prfr go ochi

The people should be hopeful?

I wish that this was copied nationwide. I don't think that Seaga was given enough credit for what he did for Western Kingston and what he wanted to do for Jamaica. His government needed at least 20 years to make a significant transformation to Jamaica. Many Jamaicans are impatient. They thought that the country wasn't moving at their speed which is the reason they voted out the JLP.

The same man who built it destroyed it.

When I watch this all I can think is ( what went wrong )....jah jah