Trenchtown

Rose Town, according to my friend Hank Dittmar, who heads The Prince's Foundation, is the ghetto in Kingston next to Trenchtown, which of course gave us Bob Marley.

F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Jamaica's Rose Town Pursue's Healing Through Rebuilding 2009

That is when Kingston's worst slum areas --- places with names like Concrete Jungle, Dunkirk, Trenchtown and Jim Brown's own Tivoli Gardens-were carved into so-called "garrison constituencies," controlled, Chicago style, by shifting hierarchies of local bosses for both leading parties.

'Jim Brown' Is Still Dead, Isn't He? 2008

I remember when we used to sit/In a government yard in Trenchtown ...

John Tomasic: What Happened Inside A Boulder Caucus 2008

In Jamaica, 300 years of colonialism followed by the economic doldrums of independence sent scores of young men to the shanties of Trenchtown where, infused with perhaps too much marijuana, the Rastafarians cast Haile Selassi, a minor African despot, as the Lion of Judah.

Wade Davis: For a Global Declaration of Interdependence 2008

'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic', which reveals vocalist/writer Sting's willingness to drop his stylized Trenchtown accent when the material dictates it.

Ghost In The Machine 1981

Where the skinhead ska-revivalists Madness cooked at Hurrah, throwing caution to the wind with their Bowery-Boys-in-Trenchtown stage show, the Police played their music with a stiff professionalism that made their mixture of styles seem more academic than inspired - cool as Kojak, kings of the natty-blond beat.

Reggatta de Blanc 1979

His adrenaline was flowing like the teeming streets of Trenchtown.

The Season Of The Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977

His adrenaline was flowing like the teeming streets of Trenchtown.

The Season of the Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977

Marley while wearing the company's Marley Destiny Trenchtown Rock headphones on press preview day at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show January 4, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

Born on July 23, 1954, in the Trenchtown section of Kingston, a place as musically rich as it was economically poor, Mr. Burrell immigrated to England with his family when he was 5 and returned to Jamaica as a teenager.

NYT > Home Page By ROB KENNER 2011