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The word "barbecue" has its origins in the Caribbean where the Taínos, Indigenous people who inhabited the Caribbean islands ...
In Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, it is estimated that over 70 per cent of the population live in informal settlements.
Seaford Town, founded by German settlers in 1835, remains one of Jamaica's most unique and enduring cross cultural ...
Air Jamaica was a Caribbean airline that expanded rapidly, but unsustainably, eventually merging with another tropical ...
While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...
On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...
That in Jamaica, out of many, we would be one people. Our mottos were aspirational, inviting us to believe, beckoning us to put our shoulders to the wheel to make them a reality.
Today’s Jamaica reveres its Maroon history. Among the seven figures designated as “National Heroes” by the government, the only woman is Nanny, who also appears on the country’s $500 banknote.
Jamaica is one of 14 realms where the King, 76, is head of state, and Forte previously said that Jamaica would move to become a republic by the next general election in 2025, according to the BBC.
Jamaica introduces bill to remove King Charles as head of state and become a republic. Jamaica is one of many former British colonies that retained a British head of state after independence in 1962 ...
The term “Emancipendence” gradually came into use some years back, after August 1 (Emancipation Day) was reinstated as a national holiday in Jamaica in 1997. The date is close to that of the island’s ...