Save Pinnacle

A relative of Rastafari's most celebrated adherent is now leading a fight to protect one of its most significant historical sites. Donisha Prendergast, Bob Marley's eldest granddaughter, is among a group of activists occupying a Rastafari tabernacle on a Jamaican hilltop known as the Pinnacle -- the site of the religion's first community on the Caribbean island. The spot, near the village of Sligoville, is where Leonard P Howell -- one of the founders of the Rastafari movement -- built a large house and established a self-sufficient Rasta community during the 1930s. The campaigners hope the Pinnacle will be declared the property of the Howell family and the Rastafari faith. Yet the site is the subject of a long-running dispute between the Howells and St Jago Hills Development Ltd, the local property developer whom Jamaican courts say is its official owner.