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4 unusual facts about Spanish Town


Jamaica Police Academy

The Jamaica Police Academy is a training school located in Spanish Town where force applicants undergo physical activities to ensure that they are fit for the specific jobs that they will be doing after their 5–6 months at the training school.

London Borough of Lambeth

Lambeth also has twinning arrangements with Bluefields in Nicaragua; Moskvoretsky in Russia (although this is abeyance since changes to the city government of Moscow); Brooklyn, New York in the United States; Shinjuku in Japan; and Spanish Town in Jamaica.

Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands

Spanish Town on southern Virgin Gorda is the second largest town (after Road Town) on the British Virgin Islands.

The Machine's Child

Joseph sets himself up in the less rowdy inland community of Spanish Town, ready to wait years for their arrival, equipped with a device that can detect and jam the Captain's signals.


Briar Stewart

In 2010, Stewart won an AMPIA Award for her documentary "Journey to Jamaica", a story that followed a group of First Nations cadets from Hobbema, Alberta on an exchange that took them to the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

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.

Ewarton

Ewarton is on the A1 road (Kingston - Lucea), which climbs up from Spanish Town and Bog Walk in the south, enters the town from the south east, passes through the town's central square and continues north towards Moneague and Saint Ann's Bay.

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.

Stylo G

Jason McDermott (born 1985 in Spanish Town, Jamaica), known by his stage name Stylo G, is a British Reggae artist, known for his three hit singles, "My Yout" "Call Mi A Yardie" and "Soundbwoy".


see also

Aranda

Aranda de Duero, a Spanish town located in Burgos province, the site of the Council of Aranda

CATUAV

Lorca earthquake: In May 2011 CATUAV performed a series of flights over Lorca (Spanish town in Murcia) 38 hours after it was stuck by a strong earthquake.

Chiviri

The chíviri is a popular festival which takes place in the Spanish town Trujillo.

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.

Miknasa

The modern Moroccan city of Meknes bears witness to their presence, as does the Spanish town of Mequinenza.

Psilocybe hispanica

It has been argued that prehistoric rock art at a site known as Selva Pascuala near the Spanish town of Villar del Humo offers evidence that P. hispanica was used in religious rituals 6,000 years ago.

Pueblo de Panay

It adopts the “Pueblo” or small Spanish town concept of development; wherein the center of governance, education, religion, commerce, culture, recreation and other important community activities are integrated in a central “plaza” or park.

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.

Samuel ibn Seneh Zarza

According to Zunz, his surname is derived from the Spanish town Zarza (= "thorn-bush"), and is accordingly synonymous with the Hebrew "seneh."

Sergius of Cappadocia

Some saints lists say his relics were brought to the Spanish town of Úbeda; it is a mistake: Primus Cabilonensis, in his Topographia (ca. 1450) states that Sergius' relics were moved to Baetulo (now Badalona, near Barcelona), but there is no evidence for this.

St John of God Health Care

The pomegranate symbol was chosen by the Sisters of St John of God to reflect the order’s patron Saint, John of God, who ministered to the sick and poor in the Spanish town of Granada – ‘pomegranate’ in Spanish – in the early 16th century.

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

It tells the story of a small Spanish town, Villar del Río, which hears of the visit of American diplomats and begins preparations to impress the American visitors in the hopes of benefitting under the Marshall Plan.

Zinzan Brooke

Brooke suffered head trauma in May 2007 while falling out of a taxi in the Spanish town of Elche, though the circumstances are unclear.