Darliston
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Darliston is a town in Westmoreland Parish, West Jamaica, 16 km ENE of Savanna-la-Mar. In 1991 the population was 1,435 (2007 estimate 1595)[1]. Principal economic activities include the production of sugarcane, rice, breadfruit and livestock.[2]
In 2005 the Government of Jamaica opened a transport centre in Darliston costing $6.6m, funded by the national Urban/Rural Renewal Programme and the Westmoreland Parish Council.
Darliston was the birth place of S U Hastings, the first Jamaican to be consecrated as a bishop of the Moravian Church.
