Ocho Rios, Port Antonio & the North Coast
When super-stylish Kaya opened its doors in 2018, it became the first legal marijuana dispensary in the Caribbean. Equal parts clinic and hipster boutique…
Must-see shopping in Jamaica
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Montego Bay
In the suburb of Catherine Hall, this is the best-quality gallery in town. It sells genuinely original arts and crafts from around the Caribbean,…
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Negril
An excellent selection of tasteful, Jamaican-made crafts, including clothes and jewelry designed in Treasure Beach, as well as Blue Mountain coffee,…
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Jamaica
Warning: don't walk past this artistically attired Rasta shack that's been defying hurricanes, dodgy drivers and all else in Belmont since 1977; it's…
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Jamaica Standard Products Coffee Factory
Jamaica
Stop by the JSP coffee factory to purchase fresh bags of Island Blue (Blue Mountain) coffee at extremely fair prices, as well as cheaper High Mountain…
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Kingston
Orange St was once home to a host of fabulous music shops, but Rockers International is the last one standing. Still, it has the best pick of reggae, dub…
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Kingston
Excellent New Kingston bookshop. Stock includes a strong selection of titles on Jamaica and the Caribbean, including guidebooks and a fiction section…
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Montego Bay & Northwest Coast
The Falmouth branch of the St Ann's marijuana dispensary stocks almost two dozen distinct Sativa, Indica and hybrid strains of the herb, grown in their…
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Montego Bay & Northwest Coast
In the hamlet of Coxheath, between Sherwood Content and Windsor, you'll find this Usain Bolt gift shop, run by his welcoming and jovial aunt, Miss Lilly…
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Ocho Rios
Since its 2002 opening, this self-contained entertainment park has changed the face of Ocho Rios. The 2-hectare development claims to resemble a ‘Jamaican…
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Jamaica
Goombay drums, along with medicinal herbs, calabash shells and abengs (cow horns), are for sale in the tiny red-and-green craft shop as you enter town…
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Kingston
Kingston's first medical marijuana dispensary, with knowledgeable and friendly staff ready to dispense ganja buds, oils and tinctures, along with advice…
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Kingston
Well-placed on Hope Rd. Bookophilia is a bookshop, social space and creative oasis. In addition to books, grab a coffee courtesy of Deaf Can! Coffee, or…
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Port Antonio
This wooden complex facing Fisherman's Beach on the main road has a series of small huts, each with craftspeople selling carved wood, jewelry, T-shirts…
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Port Antonio
This fresh produce market is the best place to come if you're self-catering. There's a small craft section and a secondhand book stall with an eclectic…
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Negril
At the Kuyaba hotel, there's a focus on locally created art and other crafts, which makes a refreshing change from the mass-produced tat in most Negril…
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Ocho Rios
This market features fair-quality ceramics and art, as well as the usual T-shirts with chirpy Jamaican slogans and Rasta tams with fake dreadlocks…
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Kingston
Excellent contemporary art and crafts by local artists, with regular open studio residences for Jamaican creatives.
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Kingston
Large shopping mall (and important Kingston navigational landmark), with a supermarket, food court and cinema.
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Ocho Rios
All the sounds Jamaica can offer – reggae and dancehall CDs, as well as ska, mento and calypso.
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Negril
A dozen practically identical shops selling elephants from Rajasthan, wooden cats and colorful masks from Bali, Chinese ashtrays, and Jamaican bamboo…
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Montego Bay
The largest selection of typical Jamaican souvenirs in MoBay – coconut-palm baskets, woven hats, Rasta-themed wood carvings and Haitian art rip-offs – is…
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Montego Bay
With a nightclub vibe and bouncers inviting you in, this is a medicinal marijuana dispensary only in the sense that there's a nurse onsite, ready to write…
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Montego Bay
This crafts market behind the fort sells a good selection of Jamaica wood carvings, vibrant paintings ripped off from Haitian art, locally made items…
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Negril
Just north of Plaza de Negril. Crafts that are locally made are the varnished wooden carvings (you'll see some guys carving), plus some woven hats,…
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Ocho Rios
Firmly aimed at cruise-ship souvenir needs, this open-air market will meet all your tacky T-shirt, batik, wooden sculpture and crafts-made-of-coconut…
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Kingston
Tourist souvenir shop that has it all, from jerk sauce and Blue Mountain coffee to every green, gold and black item of Jamaica-branded clothing you could…
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Port Antonio
A simple white clapboard gallery and studio run by Hopeton Cargill, a Port Antonio realist painter and ambassador for the local art scene.
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Negril
Shopping center with several shops selling identical trinkets – mostly Chinese-made, with the exception of some Jamaican wood carvings.
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Montego Bay
For all your Rasta wig hat, palm straw basket, wood carving and reggae wear needs. Bargain hard.
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Ocho Rios
Reggae wear in Rastafari colors, Usain Bolt T-shirts, and a fair selection of reggae music.
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