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Nesta Carter OD (born October 11, 1985) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres event. Carter was successful as part of the Jamaican 4 x 100 metres relay team, taking gold and setting successive world records at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 London Olympics. He also won a 4 x 100m silver medal at the 2007 World ...
Chinese Jamaicans. Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century; there was another moment of migration in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the descendants of early migrants have moved abroad, primarily to Canada and the United States. [3]
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.
The main characters in Breaking Cat News are based on Dunn's own cats Elvis, Lupin, and Puck, augmented by recent arrivals Goldie, Iggy, and Ora Zella. They are drawn in watercolor and ink. The characters' personalities are based on the personalities and behavior of their real-life counterparts. Also in the cast are a human family originally ...
The Voice, founded in 1982, is a British national African-Caribbean newspaper operating in the United Kingdom. The paper is based in London and was published every Thursday until 2019 when it became monthly. It is available in a paper version by subscription and also online.
May 23, 2010. ( 2010-05-23) Current status. Active. On the Ground News Reports ( OGNR, stylised OG.NR) is a citizen journalism news platform that collects, validates and distributes user-generated news in short form (250 words or less) from Jamaica and around the world. Citizen Reporters, along with professional editors provide regular reports ...
Term. From 2004. Mark Shields (born 1957) Is a former British law enforcement officer and security consultant. After nearly three decades of service with the City of London, Essex and the Metropolitan Police Services, in 2005 he moved to Jamaica to take up a new position as Deputy Police Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. In that ...
The 2024 Jamaican local government elections were held on 26 February 2024. [1] Nomination day was on February 8, 2024. 228 divisions and the leadership of 14 municipal bodies will be elected. [2]