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Portmore began as a large area for schematic residential development in the late 1960s, [5] as the West Indies Home Contractors (WIHCON) organization built thousands of prototype housing units in an effort to alleviate the over-population of Kingston; the first was called Independence City. [5]
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [2] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Kingston, Jamaica from the masthead of HMAS Melbourne - 1915. During the 1930s, island-wide riots led to the development of trade unions and political parties to represent workers. [19] The city became home to the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. It was founded in 1948, with 24 medical students. [11]
Jamaica cricket team, Jamaica Tallawahs: End names: Blue Mountains End Headley Stand End: International information; First Test: 3–12 April 1930: West Indies v England: Last Test: 20–24 August 2021: West Indies v Pakistan: First ODI: 26 April 1984: West Indies v Australia: Last ODI: 16 January 2022: West Indies v Ireland: First T20I: 19 ...
Harbour View was built in 1960, two years before the country's Independence in 1962. The community was the first in Jamaica to have a community paper and its residents claim that the community was the first to host street dances. [1] Harbour View is located in East Kingston and can be described as one of the best communities to live and raise ...
Port Royal is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica.Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and most prosperous city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the 17th century. [1]
Jamaica (/ dʒ ə ˈ m eɪ k ə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean.
Trench Town (also Trenchtown) is a neighbourhood located in the parish of St. Andrew, part of which is in Kingston, the capital and largest city of Jamaica.Today Trench Town is the location of the Trench Town Culture Yard Museum, a National Heritage Site presenting the unique history and contribution of Trench Town to Jamaica.