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Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury . The community seceded from Roxbury during the formation of West Roxbury in 1851 and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed in 1874. [ 1 ]
The People's Political Party (PPP) was Jamaica 's first modern political party. It was formed in 1929 by Marcus Garvey. [1] The PPP set out a 14 point manifesto—the first of its kind in the island's electoral history. The points contained in the PPP's manifesto were far-reaching and perceptive as illustrated by a few of them, such as: The PPP ...
Newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations. Number of employees. 1,400 (2004) Website. www.nationmedia.com. Nation Media Group (NMG), formerly known as East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. It is owned by Aga Khan IV.
In March, Jamaica formally pledged 200 personnel for the U.N.-backed mission, but the long-delayed security force has been slow to deploy and its initial mandate will expire in under a month if it ...
M. Mission Hill School. Monument Square Historic District (Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts) Morton Street.
Monument Square Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of Monument Square in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The 43 acres (17 ha) district is bounded on the northwest by Pond Street, the northeast by Myrtle and Pond Streets, the southeast by Centre Street (excluding the commercial properties on Centre Street itself), and Holbrook and ...
The Gleaner is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Western Hemisphere, [2] and is considered a newspaper of record for Jamaica. [5] [6] The morning broadsheet newspaper is presently published six days each week in Kingston. The Sunday paper edition is called the Sunday Gleaner. The Sunday edition was first published in 1939, and ...
Designated CP. June 2, 1987. The First Church of Jamaica Plain is a historic church at 6 Eliot Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The stone Gothic Revival church was designed in 1854 by the well known Boston architect, Nathaniel J. Bradlee, for a congregation which was established in 1769 as the Third Church of ...