Jamaica: Roots of The Rastas
Observer Magazine 04/09/1978

Including the Black Jesus Christ, The wisdom of Bongo Blackheart and the two gangsters who brought about the astonishing Ghetto Peace while I was there – Bucky Marshall and Claudie Massop. They effected a ceasefire unknown to Kingston by meeting at the frontier between the two factions and embracing – a kind of reverse High Noon. It rattled the politicians as my subsequent news story headline in The Observer newspaper described: Rival Gangs Turn Their Guns on Jamaica’s Politicians.

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