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Visiting Bob Marley’s Jamaica and ‘the Government Yard in Trench Town’

by Jim Benning | 03.02.07 | 4:05 PM ET

Trench Town, the tough Kingston neighborhood made famous in Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry, got some love from the New York Times today. Tens of thousands of visitors are expected in the Caribbean during the next two months for the Cricket World Cup, and Marley’s old neighborhood is one place that could see an increase in visitors. “In Trench Town, where street gangs battle over turf and where people live in shacks about the size of the garages at the glorious homes in the hills, expectations for the cricket tournament are high,” the Times reports. “Community leaders will have tour guides at the ready to take visitors around a neighborhood they say has a proud past.”

Tags: Bob Marley, Music, Caribbean, Jamaica, Pop Culture Travel