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Spotlight On
Within the lush, Tolkienesque hills of the parish of St Ann, is one of the most remarkable communities on the whole island. In the 1970s, faced with poverty, a lack of basic amenities, gross unemployment and constant migration of the area’s young people to Kingston, residents of the village banded together to form the Walker’s Wood Village Council, a group made up of representatives from local churches, schools, farms and other organisations in the area. > Learn More
| Harmony Hall was built in the mid-19th Century as a Methodist manse, and is one of Jamaica’s most beautiful buildings. Opened in 1981 after a year’s restoration, it has since received international acclaim as an art and craft gallery. There are regular exhibitions during the winter season, featuring the works of Jamaica’s finest painters and sculptors, and over 100 artists and crafts people are represented. > Learn More
| Located in Mammee Bay within an enclave of luxurious private homes on a splendid white sand beach, just a short drive west of Ocho Rios.This neo-Georgian style 4 bedroom villa features traditional furnishings and spacious, cool interiors. > Learn More
| | This event is an amalgamation of Jamaican Folk Forms in celebration of African ancestors and their contribution to Emancipation. Exhibitors will include Jamaican traditional cuisine and craft. The Seville Heritage Park will be transformed back in time to morning of Emancipation in the nineteenth century with an atmosphere of festivity. > Learn More
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Old Woman Savanna:
In Clarendon, running roughly from Kellits to Crofts Hill there is an area known as Old Woman's Savanna. It appeared so on earliest maps and apparently the old woman was a Spaniard -who refused to leave Jamaica when the English captured the island in 1655, even though her house and property in Spanish Town were seized. She received permission to retire to her hato in the country thus giving the name to the area
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