KINGSTON’S CAPITAL APPEAL IN JAMAICA

“Take your time,” says Cheree, my guide, as I admire the rose-beds of Emancipation Park and the bronze figures of the redemption song memorial, named after the Bob Marley song and dedicated to the slaves of Jamaica’s past.

Next up on my Kingston tour is The Bob Marley Museum, the singer’s former home and, Cheree explains, where he survived an assassination attempt in 1976. My history lesson in Jamaica’s capital continues at the antique-stuffed

Georgian mansion, Devon House, built by Jamaica’s first black millionaire, George Stiebel. Aside from the tropical foliage, the heritage site has a definite UK west country feel, with brick cottages and stables turned into a bakery, and the iscream ice cream parlour where I choose a clotted cream vanilla cone.

Leaving the house, Cheree spots a roadside fruit seller and we buy a bag of orange jackfruit, that grows on the treetrunk, and the Jamaican apple which is like a plum but less sweet.