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St. Andrew Parish Church, St. Margaret's Church - Anglican, Sts. Peter and Paul Church - Roman Catholic, St. Thomas Aquinas Centre - Roman Catholic, Church of the Ascension - Anglican, Mona Baptist Church, The Office of the Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (soon to be relocated on Duke Street, Downtown), Carberry Special School,
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Les Jolies Eaux is a villa situated at the southern tip of Mustique Island. [6] The villa's name is a French term which translates to ‘beautiful waters’. [7] This name was coined by locals as a result of the prime geological location of the property which overlooks the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic. [8]
St Catherine Parish Council offices. St Catherine is located at It is bordered by St Andrew in the east, Clarendon in the west, and by St Mary and St Ann in the north. It has an area of 1,192 km 2, making it one of Jamaica's largest parishes and it is one of the fastest growing parishes in the nation and has the largest economy out of all fourteen parishes.
Portland, with its capital town Port Antonio, is a parish located on Jamaica's northeast coast. It is situated to the north of St Thomas and to the east of St Mary in Surrey County. It is one of the rural areas of Jamaica, containing part of the Blue Mountains, where the Jamaican Maroon communities of Moore Town and Charles Town are located.
Lyssons is named after Nicholas Lycence, who was the member for St. Thomas in the East in the Jamaican Assembly from 1671 to 1672. [1]The Lyssons Estate was a sugar plantation located in Lyssons which was owned by Simon Taylor, who was once the wealthiest sugar planter in the Colony of Jamaica and one of the wealthiest men in the British Empire in the eighteenth century.
Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
A few places in Jamaica are named in Ken Jones' honour, including: The Ken Jones Aerodrome in St. Margaret’s Bay; The Ken Jones Highway in St. Thomas; The Ken Jones Park in Manchioneal; The Ken Jones Post Office in Haddington, Hanover [4] Ken Jones' mysterious death is portrayed in his brother Evan Jones' 1998 novel Stone Haven. [9]