[1] Lit in the afternoons by an apricot light that may have inspired its Spanish name, Oracabeza, or "Golden Head," Oracabessa's commercial district consists of a covered produce market and a few shops and bars.

[2] To the east, Oracabessa merges into a residential community, which is the site of luxury villas such as Goldeneye, Golden Clouds, and Firefly Estate, the latter once the home of British playwright Noël Coward.

Blackwell owns Goldeneye villa, original home of author Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond novels while living in Oracabessa.

[5] For the next 200 years, Oracabessa functioned as a tiny agricultural community with its main crop, bananas, controlled by a small group of British landowners.

Phillippo built the first church in Oracabessa and led a defiant protest against the local landowner's refusal to sell land to former slaves after emancipation.

With this show of force, combined with a decree from the British Government, the landowners relented and sold Phillippo enough land to build houses, schools, churches, and businesses for the hundreds of freedmen residents in the area.

In 1910, Ruth Bryan Owen, the daughter of one of the richest men in the United States, had read the story of James Phillippo and his grand experiment in Oracabessa.

[11] Fleming purchased the land next door to Golden Clouds and built his house, Goldeneye, where he proceeded to write the James Bond novels and earned worldwide acclaim.

Fleming's coterie of friends included actors, musicians, and filmmakers,[12] who were enamoured with Oracabessa's main street, beautiful beach and its quiet, unassuming local population.

[13] In the mid-1990s, the Island Outpost corporation owned by Blackwell bought 70 acres of prime coastal land and opened the village's main attraction, the James Bond Beach Club.

The music group UB40 has a studio in Oracabessa[18] and large reggae concerts are presented at James Bond Beach, with artists such as Rihanna, Ziggy Marley, and Lauryn Hill performing.

In 2012, Mikeal Jansson shot the Ferragamo campaign featuring Gisele Bündchen in Oracabessa and referred to it in Vogue magazine as "a dream-like location.

In the 1973 film, Live and Let Die, James Bond and his guide, Quarrel Jr., drive through Oracabessa and stop at the triangular intersection in the main square to ask for directions.