Trenchtown

Jamaican ghetto upholds Marley legacy
Bob Marley's legacy is being revived in Trenchtown

By Soutik Biswas
BBC News, Jamaica

I remember when we used to sit/ In the government yard in Trenchtown.../ And then Georgie would make the fire lights/ And it was logwood burnin' through the nights/ Then we would cook cornmeal porridge/ Of which I'll share with you...
These days, people in Trenchtown, a gritty, violence-wracked district of Kingston, don't gather around logwood fires, sup on communal broth and sing songs any longer.

Life has moved on in Bob Marley country.