Breaking News: Government Apologizes to Rastafarians
A Trust fund is to be set up with J$10 million to be used as compensation to descendants and or survivors of this 1963 event in Coral Gardens, St James, outside Montego Bay, Jamaica W.I.
He honoured this commitment today April 4, 2017 in Parliament when the PM issued a statement in which he apologized to the Rastafarian Community for a massacre by the Police of at least 6 Rastas in 1963. There was an uprising and the Police detained an estimated 400 Rastafarians. Some were shaved and abused. Detained without cause and humiliated because they were Rastas.
Coral Gardens Massacre
Public Defender
Parliamentary Review Committee
Hon ‘Babsy” Grange, Culture Minister, Hon Marlene Malahoo Forte, Attorney -General, Hon. Mike Henry, Transport Minister, a ball head Rasta, Hon. Delroy Chuck, Justice Minister were among the committee members who examined the Public Defender’s Report on Rasta Compensation for the Coral Gardens incident.
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