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3 unusual facts about Saint Catherine Parish


Chris Humphrey

Christopher Charles Humphrey (born 19 September 1987 in Saint Catherine, Jamaica) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Football League One side Preston North End and the Jamaica national team.

Escape to Last Man Peak

First published in 1975, it chronicles the adventure of ten orphans who embark on a dangerous journey across Jamaica, from Spanish Town, St. Catherine to Last Man Peak located near Falmouth, Trelawny, after a deadly pneumonia epidemic kills the caretakers of their orphanage, and propels the country into a state of anarchy and desolation.

Gariece McPherson

Gariece Kayon McPherson (born May 14, 1989, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine) is a Jamaican footballer and the current goalkeeper for Cavalier F.C. team.


Peter Beckford

He took an active part in island politics, representing St. Catherine in the Assembly in 1675, and was later called to the Council where he was appointed President.

Railways of Jamaica: Spanish Town to Ewarton

The Spanish Town to Ewarton line was built to serve the citrus growing regions in the interior of Saint Catherine, particularly those around the towns of Bog Walk, Linstead and Ewarton.


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Free Villages

Henry Lunan, formerly an enslaved headman at Hampstead Estate, purchased the first plot in the very first Free Village or Baptist Free Village scheme to come to fruition at Sligoville (in Saint Catherine parish and named after the Marquess of Sligo, the Jamaican Governor at the time of abolition), ten miles north of Spanish Town.