Does anyone have any information on why the sea side ares in Treasure Beach is referred to as Pedro ?(pronounced Pee-dro).

I only know pedro is a spanish word.
Means peter in english.I also would like to know.

Dunno kno but it's pronouced Ped-dro

because de plains an de bluff at great bay

I've always assumed it was named for one of the Spanish, who of course had commissioned Christopher Columbus (and who "discovered" Jamaica on his second trip -- and later sent his son to set up a new colonial capital in what we call Spanishtown. Several of the kings of the Spanish royal house of Aragon had been named Pedro (PAY-dro in Spanish). Then there was an early king in the house of Castile, called Pedro the Cruel, the family line that produced Ferdinand and Isabella. It was probably one of them for whom Great Pedro Bluff, and the Pedro Plains, and Pedro Beach (as it was known before some touristic developer, I think the one who built the Treasure Beach Hotel, decided "Treasure" would draw more flies than "Pedro")were named.
There was also a contemporary named Peter Martyr, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade Columbus that he'd found a new world; he thought to his dying day he'd discovered outlying parts of Asia. Although the Spanish would have called him Pedro, I think he was English.

Thanks to everyone for their imput.Dunno, I am aware of the proper pronunciation but in Jamaican we say Pee-dro.Pee-dro Cay, Pee-dro Bluff and of course our people are called Pee-dro people.

So Don,Columbus probably discovered Pedro then when he looked to the west of us he saw more land thus giving Westmoreland (west-more-land) it's name.History sure is fascinating.

JAMAICA was not discovered by Columbus.

Keep it coming JJJ.Please expand on what you have said a little more.My understanding is that the Arawaks were already here before Columbus came but did the rest of the world realize that ( Xamaica ) Jamaica existed ?

If not Christephor Columbus,then who?

That's why I put "discovered" in quotes