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The global banana trade, currently a multibillion dollar industry, has its roots in Portland and St. Thomas. The originators of the banana trade were American sea captains George Busch and later Lorenzo Dow Baker of the 85-ton Telegraph, who arrived in 1870.

Paul Bogle was the founding deacon at the Native Baptist Church in Stony Gut, St. Thomas, a village at the base of the Blue Mountains about eight kilometers inland from Morant Bay. Bogle founded a church where African elements similar to those found in Revival were strong and a black pride ethos was a central doctrine.

Errol Flynn Marina: This world-class facility in the heart of Port Antonio has a sea wall lined with flowers and benches.

Bonnie View: No degree of dilapidation to the remains of one of Errol Flynn's grand hotels can take away its view.

Boston is home of jerk, and jerk purveyors across Jamaica know it. The community is located 10km east of the town of Port Antonio, its main features beach its sandy beach suitable for surfing in the horseshoe-shaped bay, and a ramshackle array of jerk pits abutting one another on the lane leading down to Great Huts, a rustic clifftop hotel.