arson caused severe damage in Jamaica Bobo Camp

  • The conference room, an office and two houses were burned in the incident.

An unfortunate incident affected the Bobo Camp facilities located in Bull Bay, St Andrew, after an individual started a fire that left serious damage to the place.

As related by Priest Gentle Edwards, the intruder started the fire around 06:00 hours last Friday because a missing goat of his was found dead in the place.

“When we come to start reading the Psalms, we heard loud noises and then we saw smoke from the guard room”, Edwards said, consigned The Star of Jamaica.

The subject even faced a priest and then returned to the camp with a firearm, to later start multiple sources of fire in the facilities, destroying the conference room, the office and two houses.

“The office is where we have all our documents, all our computers and laptops, radio and other devices. They were all destroyed”, Priest Gentle Edwards commented to the aforementioned media.

Regarding the situation of the goat, Edwards confirmed that she was found dead, but he said he did not know how it happened.

“Goats arriving here have been a problem for some time, we always try to keep all the animals out, but we have a problem with the fences”, he added.

While, the author of this attack fled before the arrival of the Police, who maintains the investigations.

Despite the incident, Edwards said Bobo Shanty's group still has an open door policy.

“We have to keep our open door policy, because sometimes schools travel here and people come from all over the Caribbean”, commented.

“We take various types of people because we are here to wipe the dirt clean and put the crooked straights on”, Edwards said. “There are so many things that have been taken from the black man that they leave them traumatized, that's why we become violent against each other”.

At the same time, Archibald priest, whose house was destroyed by fire, he also considered that it is the trauma of slavery that caused the intruder to burn down his house.

“Blacks have been suffering trauma from what the slave masters put on them, and they do it to fight each other”, said Archibald.

The reaction from Chile

“As the Office of Congress here in Chile we are organizing ourselves to be able to provide financial support for reconstruction., since that's the force we can send”, manifested Reggae Chalice Priest Igo, member of the Bobo community in Chile.

“In one way or another this is sabotage because the Conference Room was burned, a very important place, because it was the tabernacle that was in this time”, he added.

Priest Igo also regretted the sinister because “our office burned down, there was relevant information about Repatriation, about the communication between Congress and the United Nations and all that diplomatic business that Congress has done for the repatriation and all those papers have been lost, the computers, the bibles, that is why it is important that it be restored as soon as possible”.

Community members in Chile are also organizing to come to the aid of the headquarters in Jamaica.