Jamaica and Ethiopia

Ethiopia's foreign ministry has said it will issue identification cards to Rastafarians !

The Rastafarian community who emigrated to Ethiopia has long complained

of living in limbo in their so-called promised land.

Rastafarians will now be eligible to receive ID cards that will allow them

to reside and have most legal rights in the country.

However, they are still not considered citizens.

Under the revised guidelines, the cards will also be available to foreigners

who have contributed to the country's development and to Israelis

of Ethiopian descent.

Rastafarians revere Ethiopia's former-Emperor Haile Selassie as a god.

This started after the black consciousness leader Marcus Garvey's prophecy:

"Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned,

for the day of deliverance is at hand".

In 1963, a dozen Jamaica Rastafarians took up the offer

and those numbers swelled to around 800 today 

Why Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados et al never had Rastasfarian ?

A different Tribe was dropped off in Jamaica ??

from slave ship days ..... :-\

ramesh, how come Garvey never caught on in GT !

Why no one Hail Selassise  :-\