Jamaica’s Parishes and Regions

Comparison

⚠ FOURTEEN PARISHES, AND THEY DO NOT EAT ALIKE. KINGSTON and SAINT ANDREW — the city, Coronation Market, the jerk pans and the patty shops. PORTLAND — the north-east, Boston Bay, and the parish that claims jerk. SAINT ELIZABETH — the breadbasket, on red bauxite soil, growing the island’s vegetables; also the Accompong Maroons on its Cockpit border. TRELAWNY and the COCKPIT COUNTRY — the karst limestone wilderness that made Maroon resistance possible and where Accompong still holds treaty land. SAINT ANN — pimento, yam country, the "garden parish". WESTMORELAND and HANOVER — sugar and rum in the west. SAINT THOMAS — Bath, Morant Bay, and a strong Kumina and Indian presence. CLARENDON and SAINT CATHERINE — the plains, sugar, and the largest Indian-descended population.