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Jamaica [a] 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 . [ 9 ]
The chief justice of Jamaica is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Jamaica. This article lists chief justices from before and after Jamaica's independence in 1962.
Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies in Edwards' The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies V.2 (1801) In 1784 Edwards wrote Thoughts on the late Proceedings of Government respecting the Trade of the West India Islands with the United States of America, in which he attacked the restrictions ...
Professor Dianne Edwards CBE, FRS, FRSE, FLS, FLSW (born 1942 [1]) is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.
The Baptist War, as it was known, became the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, [46] lasting 10 days and mobilised as many as 60,000 of Jamaica's 300,000 slaves. [47] The rebellion was suppressed by colonial forces under the control of Sir Willoughby Cotton. [48]
Gerty Archimede (1939): [137] [138] [139] First female lawyer in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin) Sylvie Favier: [ 143 ] [ 144 ] First female to serve as the President of the Administrative Courts of Basse-Terre , Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin (2010)
Jamaica in 1717. Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community of formerly-enslaved escapees, the majority of them West African in descent, called the Windward Maroons, along with their children and families. [1]
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.