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Hace 4 días · 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 [6] ) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan ...
Hace 2 días · The island’s various Spanish, French, and English place-names are remnants of its colonial history. The great majority of its people are of African ancestry, the descendants of slaves brought by European colonists. Jamaica became independent from the United Kingdom in 1962 but remains a member of the Commonwealth. Land Relief
Hace 2 días · In 2011, a survey showed that approximately 60% of Jamaicans believe that the country would have been better off had it remained a British colony, with only 17% believing it would have been worse off, citing as problems years of social and fiscal mismanagement in the country.
Hace 4 días · Analysing these different spaces and their residents within the same framework, World War II Camps in Jamaica: Evacuees, Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War takes an ‘inside-out approach to the wartime experience’ (p.10), demonstrating that Jamaica’s contribution to the Second World War went beyond the U-boats, fundraising, and Royal Air Force recruits typically associated with the region.
Hace 21 horas · In 2009, the British Museum returned the Anthony Robinson Volumes to the Institute of Jamaica, which had loaned them in 1920 to support preparation of a book on Jamaican plants.
Hace 2 días · In 1848, Britain designated the Turks and Caicos as a separate colony under a council president. In 1873–4, the islands were made part of the Jamaica colony; in 1894, the chief colonial official was restyled commissioner.
Hace 6 días · Statistical records for the colonies of Antigua, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Honduras, Dominica, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Christopher, Nevis, St Lucia, St. Vincent, Tortola, the Turks Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago. The records include the years 1839-1938, though some begin in 1824 and others continue to 1950.
