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'SAVE COCKPIT COUNTRY' Web links Information on the Campaign and the Cockpit Country can be found at:
Press links can be found at:
N.B. Corrections to note in the two articles below (apparently from the same source): - The licences that were issued were for PROSPECTING, not mining - The licences have been SUSPENDED, not ‘withdrawn’ - The area of land granted to the Maroons in 1739 (according to H. N. Cawley & Kofi Agorsah in ‘Heroic Hearts of Jamaica,’ 1995) was 1,500 acres, of which 1,000 was for Maroon leader Accompong himself. The 1,000 acres is marked out on a 1757 map of Accompong (no reference cited). There is considerable debate about the extent of the area allocated under the Treaty and the Maroons have long challenged the Government of Jamaica about its treatment of the boundaries of Maroon territory over the years. However, it is safe to say that the AP article above is mistaken in saying the area was “roughly 10,000 hectares”.
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