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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.
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John Kenneth McKenzie Pringle CBE OJ (October 4 1925-December 12, 2006) was an entrepreneur, Jamaican ambassador, advertising executive and founder of one of Jamaica's hotels Round Hill. Pringle was the youngest member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica when appointed aged 31. [ 1 ]
The mortality rate of British soldiers in Jamaica was very high, particular as a result of yellow fever. A 156-acre (0.63 km 2) estate known as Up Park Pen was purchased by the War Department in 1784, to set up barracks. However, the mortality rate fell only when many were posted away to a hill station at Newcastle, high in the Blue Mountains.
Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [15] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [20] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [9]
William Wellington Wellwood Grant OD (1894 – 27 August 1977) was a Jamaican labour activist. [1] [2] He was known as "St. William Grant", [1] [2] "St." presumably meaning "Sergeant" in reference to his military or UNIA service.
The Jamaica Observer wrote in 2018 that the "general view" was the fire was arson. [6] In 1997 the Sistren Theatre Collective put on their play, QPH, in memory of the fire. It won a National Theatre Critic's Award. [7] Remembrance events have taken place in at least 2011, [8] and 2020. [4]
Royal tours of Jamaica by Jamaica's royal family have been taking place since the 20th century. Elizabeth II , Queen of Jamaica ( r. 1962–2022 ), visited the island six times; in 1953, 1966, 1975, 1983, 1994, and 2002.