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Dr Deborah Hickling Gordon, the recently appointed shadow spokesperson on culture and creative industries, has reportedly affirmed a commitment to strengthen the historical bond between the Maroon people and the People's National Party (PNP)...

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...

Reggae singer Warrior King will be a part of Maroon Fest’s history as the major headliner for the event’s first live concert, during the annual January celebrations in Accompong, St Elizabeth. “I see a lot of great artistes on the show but it’s...

WESTERN BUREAU: The community of Accompong, St Elizabeth has a decades-old legacy of kindness and family values embodied in Eglah Blake, a 100-year-old resident who recently celebrated her milestone birthday and is currently the oldest living...

The relationship of the early Maroons to the enslaved Africans is further complicated by research showing that colonial records from the 1800s identified persons in Maroon communities a "slaves" a...

Accompong ’s annual traditional celebration, Maroon Fest, will be hosting its inaugural stage show as an additional spectacle to the customary activities. Maroon Fest is now slated to be a two-day festival, with the traditional annual activities...

The appellation of "Maroon" was not self-chosen but was rather a derivation of the Spanish word "cimarron" meaning "wild", which was first applied in the Spanish colonies to runaway indigenous peo...

Jamaican lore is filled with stories of and references to a legendary people, the Maroons — fearsome warriors who could melt into the bush and ambush many a British Redcoat. We hear tell of the ...

The Government is being warned that it is missing an opportunity to modernise its relations with the Maroons by not involving them in the constitutional reform process. That is the assertion from attorney-at-law Marcus Goffe, who represents the...