On Tuesday night, Shane ‘Biggs’ Ricketts, whose house was demolished in Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, earlier that day, could not help but reflect on Bob Marley’s hit song, Talkin Blues, in which the legendary singer declared “ cold ground was my bed last night”.

Ricketts, who lost all his belongings in the actions of a demolition crew that flattened some 20 houses using bulldozers, tractors and sledgehammers in a pre-dawn operation that started at 3 a.m., was left with nowhere to sleep.

“Last night a waa tent wha de MP (member of parliament Tova Hamilton) bring come mi sleep under…. yu caa seh cold ground was my bed last night,” said Ricketts, who described the action of the demolition crew as inhumane, immoral and illegal.