Richard Currie, colonel of the Accompong Maroons in St Elizabeth
LIKE other communities in St Elizabeth, Accompong took a battering from Hurricane Melissa, so much so that one resident shared that he felt the historic maroon village in the hills of the Cockpit Country would have been obliterated.
“I didn’t think I was going to make it out alive,” the resident, who requested anonymity, said last Thursday.
“Based on what I experienced, I thought Accompong was going to be wiped off the map,” he added.
Category 5 Melissa, spewing 185-miles per hour winds, slammed into Jamaica’s south-western coast on October 28, 2025, leaving a trail of
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