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Rastas rally to defend 'Pinnacle'
Thursday, January 30, 2014 | 5:32 PM
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — About 100 Rastafarians have rallied in Kingston to lay claim to a site in the parish of St Catherine where a founding father of the movement once led a flourishing community.
Rastas are fighting to keep a developer from building at ‘Pinnacle’, where Leonard P Howell founded the first Rastafarian settlement 70 years ago.
According to reports, about 4,500 Rastafarians once lived in Pinnacle, but the police and British colonial officials destroyed the community in 1954.
The site is considered sacred to Rastas.
Ruins where Howell's house once stood were declared a national heritage site by the government last year. But the Court has ruled that the developer owns adjoining lots.
Jamaica's culture ministry says the developer is open to negotiations regarding the future of the lots.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 | 5:32 PM
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — About 100 Rastafarians have rallied in Kingston to lay claim to a site in the parish of St Catherine where a founding father of the movement once led a flourishing community.
Rastas are fighting to keep a developer from building at ‘Pinnacle’, where Leonard P Howell founded the first Rastafarian settlement 70 years ago.
According to reports, about 4,500 Rastafarians once lived in Pinnacle, but the police and British colonial officials destroyed the community in 1954.
The site is considered sacred to Rastas.
Ruins where Howell's house once stood were declared a national heritage site by the government last year. But the Court has ruled that the developer owns adjoining lots.
Jamaica's culture ministry says the developer is open to negotiations regarding the future of the lots.
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