Oracabessa, Jamaica Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Lit in the afternoons by an apricot light that must have inspired its Spanish name Orocabeza , or "Golden Head", ORACABESSA , some sixteen miles east of Ocho Rios, is a friendly one-street town with a covered produce market (main days Thursday and Friday) and a few shops and bars. A centre for the export of bananas until the early 1900s, Oracabessa became something of a ghost town when the wharves around the small natural harbour closed in 1969, taking with them the rum bars, gambling houses and most of the workers. The town snoozed quietly until the mid-1990s, when the Island Outpost corporation, owned by … more »