dave6 : Whats happening to the Rastafarian ?

Leonard P Howell established the Rastafari village in the 1930s but it was destroyed in 1953

                                     

Bob Marley's granddaughter has become involved in a campaign to protect the site of Jamaica's first Rastafarian community....

Donisha Prendergast says the supporters will "camp out and reason" 

                                                                                   

The campaign wants the property - a hilltop called The Pinnacle west of the capital, Kingston -

to belong to the Howell family and the community.

It appears that the Rastafarian community may have no title to the land   :

but they claim they are entitled to use it due to their historical and cultural connection to the site.

Howell's son, Monty, says papers proving the family's ownership of the land were destroyed during the 1930s and 1940s
because the island's then-colonial authorities thought it "presumptuous" for Howell to own it.


"No black person in Jamaica owned property, nothing compared to Pinnacle," he told the Jamaica Observer .


"They tried everything to chase my father off that land."