And, according to chief of the Windward Maroons, Colonel Wallace Sterling, the newly established lumi currency is a factor in that economic empowerment. Speaking with the Jamaica Observer at the ...

Maroon Chief Richard Currie has declared that he reserves the right to defend his people “using modern means” if the Jamaican Government, in his estimation, continues to infringe on the ...

“It’s a bold and ambitious journey that I am about to embark upon,” says Chief Richard Currie as he pauses pensively to take a sip of coffee. It has been less than 72-hours since his oath of ...

Queen Nanny, a Jamaican national heroine and a l egendary ... According to Atlanta Black Star, Simms was installed as paramount chief by Maroons from Suriname in a ceremony that was captured ...

The Jamaican Maroons trace their lineage to Africans who ... journeyed to Accompong. Welcomed by Chief Richard Currie, Paramount Chief of Accompong, they engaged in a symposium addressing the ...

the historian of Jamaica, the word maroon signifies, among the Spanish Americans, hog-hunter, the woods at that time abounding with the wild boar, and the pursuit of them constituting the chief ...

Among the wild mountains of Jamaica, the Maroons dwelt in a savage freedom. So healthful and beautiful was the situation of their chief town, that the English government has erected barracks there ...

The annual event, held on January 6th by the Accompong Maroons—the descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped the plantations and settled in Jamaica’s mountains ... Richard Currie, Chief of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct. 1. -- Official reports absolutely contradict the stories in circulation about Maroon outbreaks sent out from Port Antonio. The only foundation for the reports was that a ...

This achievement not only signifies the resilience of Jamaican individuals but also traces its roots back to the Maroon culture and their fight for freedom. As Jamaica’s Independence Day has ...

The serene setting belies its stormy past. Harris’s idyllic village of Moore Town is the ancestral territory of Jamaica’s legendary Maroons. Her foreparents were a band of escaped African ...