Jamaican festival honours Wailers legend Tosh

Murdered reggae legend Peter Tosh is to be be honoured at the fourth annual Calabash International Literary Festival later this month.

Murdered reggae legend Peter Tosh is to be honoured at the fourth annual Calabash International Literary Festival later this month.

The May 28-30 festival will bring together several internationally recognised writers, actors and musicians for public readings and performances at the small fishing village of Treasure Beach on Jamaica’s south coast.

The festival will honour Tosh to mark what would have been the dreadlocked singer’s 60th birthday.

Tosh was the most outspoken member of the famed Wailers group in 1960s and went on to have a successful solo career.

He was murdered during a robbery at his Kingston home in 1987.