Economy In the colonial era sugar became ‘King’ in the island’s export-agriculture based economy although there was also significant production of coffee, tobacco, cotton, indigo dye and domestic food crops. Over the last century however, a massive diversification process has been under way. Jamaica’s most important modern economic activities are tourism, bauxite mining, agriculture and […]
HISTORY The town of Port Royal is today part of the parish of Kingston and is served by the same parochial body. But, it was Port Royal and not Kingston that originally held the interest of the world. Port Royal was the headquarters of the English buccaneers, those “colourful criminals” of whom so much has […]
The second smallest parish in the island, the municipality of Kingston and St. Andrew nevertheless is Jamaica’s capital politically as well as in culture and business. Located in the south-eastern quarter of the island, the Corporate Area spreads from the Blue Mountain backbone down to the fertile Liguanea Plain before arcing into the Caribbean in […]