Accompong Town News Today

Imagine, escaping slavery, carving freedom from mountains, forging your own destiny. This ain’t fiction, it’s the true story of Jamaica’s Maroon communities, like Accompong Town and Moore Town, a testament to the unwavering spirit of freedom....

At the recent January 6 Maroons celebrations at Accompong Town in St Elizabeth, there was a group of people who drew stares, and perhaps admiration, wherever they went because they were bedecked in outstanding Africanesque attire and accessories....

On Saturday, in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth, there was much to see, hear, buy and eat at the 286th anniversary celebrations of the 1738 signing of the treaty of peace and friendship between the Trelawny Town Maroons of St James and the British....

Dressed in Africanesque attire, with an abeng in his hand, Chief Richard Currie of the Accompong Town Maroons in St Elizabeth stood barefoot at the base of the Kindah Tree as he addressed the massive crowd of local and overseas visitors, and the...

Controversial American motivational speaker, psychologist, and Pan-Africanist Dr Umar Johnson has vowed to return after an intensely moving experience attending the Accompong Maroon Festival for the first time. Speaking briefly at the First...

A QUESTION over whether the Government has consulted with the Maroons in the ongoing constitutional reform process triggered a testy exchange between Marlene Malahoo Forte and Steven Golding after the legislator asserted emphatically that Jamaica...

The Charles Town Maroon community is vowing to continue its vital work in preserving Jamaica’s history, art and culture. The group was presented with its RJRGLEANER Honour Award at a ceremony on Tuesday at Television Jamaica’s Lyndhurst Road studio...

Marcia Kim Douglas, acting colonel of the Charles Town Maroons, is overjoyed that the group is to receive the RJRGLEANER Honour Award for Arts and Culture. “I am very happy that we are able to use our music to entertain and that the cultural...

On the eve of the Christmas holidays the Government of Jamaica found itself before a United Nations (UN) body, fending off allegations of racial discrimination against the Rastafarian and Maro...

Dear Editor, In the letter Enough talk, show us proof! ( Jamai...