Words and Images: Martei Korley Jamaica is an Island of contrasts. From shanties to opulence, crowded inner cities to “country”. Country is the term Jamaicans use for most locations outside of Kingston. One goes “Down country” on the weekend to visit family and friends. When a Jamaican ask a fellow countryman: “Which country you hail from?”, he is actually asking which one of the 14 parishes is his home. Some parishes, however, like St. Catherine are more sprawling developments of all types, planned and unplanned, than actual bush. Spanish Town and Portmore, the fastest growing urban center in the Caribbean, are both part of the equation in St. Catherine. Being Jamaica’s first capitol, Spanish Town definitely holds some claim to fame in the urbanization of Jamaica. But you really don’t have to drive too far from these bustling urban centers before the landscape changes into broad plains w cattle and goats, gorges and rolling hills with Citrus groves all around. If you begin your journey in Kingston and drive West, that is. If however, you decide to look to the east to escape the dust and heat of Kingston, the Blue Mountains loom majestically over the horizon.
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