After being forced to stage a scaled down event in 2022, the Accompong Maroons put on a far ... Traditionally I always come to Maroon Town on January 6, the day after my birthday.

Accompong Maroon Chief Richard Currie is refuting claims ... ‘gun-butted’ by one of Currie’s security men as they shut down a party in the town, allegedly on orders from Currie.

The Maroon nation of Accompong in the mountains of Cockpit country in St. Elizabeth Jamaica is an agriculturally based state with a population of approximately 1000 residents, some 600 of whom are ...

Some fear the dwindling Maroon population is too weak and scattered to fend off intruders. About 800 Maroons live in simple wood-and-cinderblock houses dotting the Accompong Town hillsides ...

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—celebrates the Maroon heritage by ...