Stories
History · 4 min
Sam Sharpe led the rebellion that helped end slavery in Jamaica, and was executed in the Montego Bay square that now carries his name.
Places · 3 min
Montego Bay's best-known stretch of sand owes its name to one landowner and its fame to a visiting osteopath who called the water curative.
The great house on the hill is real, and so is its history of slavery. The white witch who supposedly murdered three husbands is a novel.
History · 2 min
The most widely accepted explanation has nothing to do with anybody called Montego, and everything to do with wild hogs.
Food · 3 min
Pimento wood, slow smoke and a rub that has been refined for three hundred years — and the places around MoBay that still do it properly.
Music · 3 min
Reggae Sumfest has been held in Montego Bay since 1993, and for one week in July the city stops pretending it sleeps.
Life · 3 min
Gloucester Avenue is the seafront mile most visitors never leave. Here is what is on it, and why locals time their visits.
