Roots Rasta's Community

In Sunning Hill Community, you experience Jamaican living. You move with a Jamaican rhythm and pace and do as the locals do.

Things to do:


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Rasta and smiling Jamaican man
Mokko and his late friend Dwight

Mokko has a farm and grows Blue Mountain coffee, ackee, pumpkins, mango and many other crops.

Jamaican woman cutting chicken in half with a macheteShopowner staring

  • Shop in local markets
  • Discover the process of making chocolate from Mokko's neighbor, Miss Mary
  • Travel in local taxis

Travelers and Jamaican family pose for the cameraJamaican woman talking with a bearded white traveler
Ready to leave, Shanell, Dianne, Shawna, Sefton (local taxi driver and neighbor), Doret, Eric, Mokko and Dave and Eric with Doret

Many Jamaicans and one traveler, swimming and washing in the river

  • Swim in the river
  • Fish for mullet, sand fish, perch, day or night lobster
  • Attend a local cricket match
  • Play dominos
  • Visit the girl's school
  • Attend the local church service
  • Dance at a local dance

Ras Soloman Jackson (Mokko)
Phone # 1(876) 849-1543 (cell)

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River bank with stone steps and bridge crossing
New flood control on the river

 

Modest wooden house
Local house

Cricket batter in white uniform, posed for a hit
Cricket match

Elderly Jamaican man with a long pole picking ackee from a tree
Neighbor, Lorenzo Scott, picking ackee

Elderly Jamaican woman in a red baseball hat looks straight on to the camera with a big smile
Miss Mary, the Chocolate Lady

Travelers and Jamaican family walk through the river
River walk

Jamaican man on donkey with a dog leading a dozen goats
Man with goats

Jamaican man
Liven would like an American wife

Church as seen from the back
Church

Colorful schoolroom with many posters and a chalkboard, desks too small for the children.
Classroom at Thornton Primary School

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