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The Jamaica International is an open international badminton tournament in Jamaica. This tournament established since 1950s, thus making this as one of the oldest badminton tournament in the Caribbean. The tournament has been an International Series level.
This is a list of Jamaica's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won four victories : Four — Miss World crowns ( 1963 • 1976 • 1993 • 2019 )
However, due to the overwhelming responses from non-commonwealth countries, the director decided to change the title to Miss Global International. Since 2004, he has produced some fabulous queens from all over the World including Canada, Zimbabwe, Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.
Country or territory Titles Years India 6 1966, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2017 Venezuela 1955, 1981, 1984, 1991, 1995, 2011 Jamaica 4 1963, 1976, 1993, 2019 United Kingdom
The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award is an annual U.S. literary award.. At the Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards Ceremony every April, the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation presents the New Writer Award (since 1985) and New Illustrator Award (since 2001) to an author and an illustrator who are at an early stage of their career.
The ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships (better known as Champs) is an annual Jamaican high school track and field meet held by Jamaica's Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association. The five day event, held during the last week before Easter in Kingston , has been considered a proving ground for many Jamaican athletes.
Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index: 99 out of 180 World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report: 91 out of 133 World Intellectual Property Organization: Global Innovation Index, 2024 [2] 79 out of 133
Vanessa Spence (born 1961, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican novelist. Her first novel, The Roads Are Down, won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean. [1] She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at the University of Oxford, and Yale University. [2] She works as an economist, in Kingston.