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 ...

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 ...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth — Accompong Maroon Chief Richard Currie could find ... Senior Superintendent of Police Stephanie Lindsay, told the Jamaica Observer on Sunday that there is an ...

“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 ...

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 ...

(Jamaican Gleaner) – Maroon Chief Richard Currie yesterday declared that he does not need permission to use any modern weapon to defend his people and their property. “It is my duty to defend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Maroons of Jamaica have always prompted varied reactions ... The apology came 8 days after the anniversary of a slavery rebellion led by Chief Takyi, an enslaved West African from Ghana ...