parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
, in the
West Indies
The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island country, island countries and 19 dependent territory, dependencies in thr ...
. In 2011 its population was 15,231. It is located NNW of
Spanish Town
Spanish Town (Jamaican Patois: Spain) is the capital and the largest town in the Parishes of Jamaica, parish of St. Catherine, Jamaica, St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica, Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and Briti ...
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Description
Close to
Ewarton
Ewarton is a town in the parish of Saint Catherine, Jamaica.
History
The name is most likely a compound of the surname "Ewart" and the suffix -ton, meaning town.
The town's economy prospered particularly from 1957 when ALCAN established a baux ...
and Windalco Ewarton works, a large aluminum plant employing many of the local population. Often employing a job share scheme as work in the area is scarce.
It holds a Grand Market celebration each
Christmas Eve
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when people come out and fill the streets, small shops sell toys and other Christmas gifts, and events and parties are held in the square.
It was popularized in the song
Linstead Market
"Linstead Market" is a Jamaican folk song of the mento type that tells of a mother who goes to the market with her ackee fruit but does not sell any, with the result that her children will go hungry.Charlemont High School
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Linstead Primary and Junior High School
Linstead Primary & Junior High is an elementary school in Linstead, Jamaica; one of oldest in the island. Despite several official name changes it has always been colloquially known as Linstead School.
The school is attended by students from Lins ...
*Dinthill Technical High
*Rosemount Primary and Junior High
* Redwood primary school
*Victoria All Age
*Trinity Preparatory
*Saint Dominic Preparatory School
*Bread of Life Christian Academy
*Mickleton Preparatory
*Victoria Primary
*Wakefield Primary
*McGrath High School
Culture
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Clive Hunt
Clive Hunt (born 31 May 1952) is a Jamaican reggae multi-instrumentist, arranger, composer and producer.
Biography
Hunt was born in Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica. He learned the trumpet while at Stony Hill Approved school, and joined the ...
- musician and reggae producer
* Hedley Jones - musician
* Leslie Laing - Olympic gold medalist in 4x400 m relay.
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Keith Anthony Morrison
Keith Anthony Morrison (born May 20, 1942), is a Jamaican-born American painter, printmaker, educator, critic, curator, and academic administrator. He is professor emeritus in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. Morris ...
- artist, educator, critic, curator and administrator
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Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell (born 23 November 1982) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. He set the 100 metres world record twice, between June 2005 and May 2008 with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds. Powell has consistently ...
- athlete
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Arthur Wint
Arthur Stanley Wint OD MBE (25 May 1920 – 19 October 1992) was a Jamaican Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War, sprinter, physician, and later High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Competing at the 1948 and 1952 Olympi ...