IF you know where to look,’ says music mogul and hotelier Chris Blackwell, ‘Jamaica can be heaven.’ Might I suggest you start by looking out from Strawberry Hill, Blackwell’s hotel 3,000ft above Kingston in the Blue Mountains?
To the south and west, across treetops and valleys, lie Kingston and the Caribbean. Submerged in the harbour, like some underwater Pompeii of the pirates, are the remains of the original Spanish settlement, Port Royal. For a while ‘the richest and wickedest city in the New World’, it was obliterated in a matter of minutes by the great earthquake of 1692. Seen from Strawberry Hill at night, the lights of present-day Kingston appear at once near enough to scoop up in handfuls
