Historical Resource Corner

Place Names in St. James

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Provided by the National Library of Jamaica Adelphi which was initially known as ‘Stretch’ and ‘Set’ is speculated to have being named by Isaacs Lascelles Winn an English Quaker, after the similar place in London. Barracks Road and any reference to Barracks in other parishes was the result of the English occupation in Jamaica. Barnett Read More

Freedom Monument

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The Freedom Monument which stands 10 feet tall in the courtyard of the Montego Bay Cultural Centre, was established by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) and the St. James Parish Council (now Municipal Corporation), as a tribute to the many ancestors who fought bravely to end slavery in the Emancipation wars of 1831 -32 which Read More

Traditional Jamaican Dishes

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Here are some of the most delicious Jamaican foods on the island… Rice and peas and chicken, jerk chicken, curry chicken, Ackee and Salt fish and dumplings, meat patties, escovitched fish, callaloo, peas soup, oxtail, cowfoot, “run-dung”,…and more… Rice and Peas and Chicken This one is at the top of the list of our island Read More