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  2. Jamaican Americans - Wikipedia

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    76% of Jamaican immigrants are working age (18 to 64). An estimated 30% of Caribbean immigrants are in the service occupations, 21% are in sales and office positions, and 25% are in management, business, science, and arts occupations and only 9% of Jamaican immigrants are in construction and maintenance jobs.

  3. Indo-Jamaicans - Wikipedia

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    Indian South Africans. Indo-Jamaicans are the descendants of people who came from the Indian subcontinent to Jamaica. Indians form the third largest ethnic group in Jamaica after Africans and Multiracials. [1]

  4. British Jamaicans - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica was a British colony between 1655 and 1962. More than 300 years of British rule changed the face of the island considerably (having previously been under Spanish rule, which depopulated the indigenous Arawak and Taino communities) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade.

  5. Economy of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 71% of the country's GDP. [17] Jamaica has natural resources and a climate conducive to agriculture and tourism. The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica's economy from sugar, and bananas.

  6. Category:Jamaican people by occupation - Wikipedia

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    E. Jamaican editors ‎ (1 C, 1 P) Jamaican educators ‎ (7 C, 19 P) Jamaican engineers ‎ (1 C, 2 P) Jamaican entertainers ‎ (7 C) Jamaican explorers ‎ (1 P)

  7. Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica ( / dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [11] Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south ...

  8. Jason Allen-Paisant - Wikipedia

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    Self-Portrait as Othello. Awards. OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2022) T. S. Eliot Prize (2023) Website. www .jasonallenpaisant .com. Jason Allen-Paisant (born 1980) is a Jamaican poet, writer and academic. His second collection of poems, Self-Portrait as Othello, won the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2023 Forward Prize for Best ...

  9. Afro-Jamaicans - Wikipedia

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    African Caribbean, British Jamaicans, Black Canadians, Jamaican Americans, Akan people, Igbo People. Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominant African descent. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country. [1] The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican people stemmed from the Atlantic slave trade of the 16th century, when enslaved ...

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