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Newcastle is a settlement in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Formerly a military hill station for the British Army it is now a training centre for the Jamaica Defence Force . The Blue Mountain and John Crow Mountain National Park in which Newcastle is located was established in 1992.
Up-Park Camp (often Up Park Camp) was the headquarters of the British Army in Jamaica from the late 18th century to independence in 1962. From that date, it has been the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force. It is located in the heart of Kingston. There is a heliport there which is used by the Jamaica Defence Force.
Dwight Devon Boyd Gayle (born 17 October 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish Premiership club Hibernian.. Gayle played in the Arsenal academy as a youth, but was released in 2007, [4] after which he began his career with Ryan of the Essex Olympian Football League.
Richards' grandmother is English, and was eligible to represent England at international level. [5]In March 2023, Richards was called up to the Jamaican senior team for a friendly game against Trinidad and Tobago, with manager Heimir Hallgrímsson stating that he was "ready" to represent the nation, despite his young age. [12]
On 1 October 1717, Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica, requested the Board of Trade's permission for the founding of a local printing press. [1] [2] [3] [note 1]I am of opinion if a printing press were set up in Jamaica it would be of great use, and benefit for publick intelligence, advertisement, and many other things.
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 Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade. [6]
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William Beckford's Roaring River Estate near Savanna-la-Mar, engraving (1778) after George Robertson. William Beckford of Somerley, Suffolk was the son of Richard Beckford (c. 1711–1756) and his friend Elizabeth Hay ("whom I have esteemed and do esteem in all respects as my wife" [2]), and was born in Jamaica in 1744 into an influential slave-holding family of colonial Jamaica. [3]