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The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655–1796: A History of Resistance, Collaboration & Betrayal. Granby, Mass: Bergin & Garvey, 1988. ISBN 0-89789-148-1; Carey, Bev. (1997). The Maroon story: The authentic and original history of the Maroons in the history of Jamaica, 1490–1880. A Maroon and Jamaica heritage series. Gordon Town, Jamaica: Agouti Press.
Gomes, Shelene (2011), The social reproduction of Jamaica Safar in Shashamane, Ethiopia (Thesis), Ph.D. Dissertation, University of St Andrews, hdl:10023/2548 Gomes, Shelene (2010), "Sites of Belonging: Caribbean and African Diasporas in Ethiopia" (PDF), in De Pretto, Laura; Macri, Gloria; Wong, Catherine (eds.), Diasporas, Rediscovering and Visiting, Inter-Disciplinary Press, ISBN 978-1-84888 ...
The Jamaica Letter or (or Letter from Jamaica or Carta de Jamaica, also Contestación de un Americano Meridional a un caballero de esta isla "Answer from a southern American to a gentleman of this island") was a document written by Simón Bolívar in Jamaica in 1815. It was a response to a letter from Jamaican merchant Henry Cullen, in which ...
Many cultural events in Jamaica are also observed by Jamaican Americans in local public celebrations or in the privacy of their homes. Many Jamaican Americans have also been very influential and successful in Hip hop music. DJ kool Herc is credited as being a pioneer in rap/hip hop music.
Government funding for original Jamaican programming was increased, with news and documentary programmes such as Public Eye, and Jamaica's first soap opera, Lime Tree Lane. [2] By the 1980s, JBC had television, two national radio stations, and several regional radio stations.
The local branch of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) also began publishing their own paper, The Chung San News (中山報) in 1953. [22] Prior to Jamaican independence, there was an annual Miss Chinese Jamaica pageant, initially organized as a fundraiser for the CBA. [25]
Town/Village: The Statistical Institute of Jamaica considers an urban area to be any area with 2,000 or more residents. [8] A town would generally be considered to be ranked as a higher populated urban area, and a village as a minor urban area. Neighbourhood: Geographically obvious subdivisions of any of the above.
The Jamaica Regiment - The Jamaica Regiment is the operationalization of a terrestrial and combat focused Regular Force formation with an overarching operational headquarters in command of five battalions; the First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Battalions the Jamaica Regiment (1, 2, 4, 5 JR) and the Combat Support Battalion (Cbt Sp Bn).