Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Indian jewellery, in the form of intricately wrought gold bangles, are common in Jamaica, with their manufacture and sale going back to the 1860s. During the first half of the 20th century, Indians such as the Jadusinghs owned several jewellery shops in Kingston specializing in pure 18-karat gold.
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies 11 km (6.8 mi) off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmost island in the West Indies.
FLOW Sports is the only regional channel that broadcast in full High Definition (HD) from a state of the art broadcasting studio located in Trinidad. JET – Jamaica Education TV; FLOW TV Michele English, president and chief operating officer of Flow in Jamaica, put the local content drive in the context of the company's development.
Indo-Caribbean people in the 19th century celebrating the Indian culture in West Indies through dance and music. From 1838 to 1917, over half a million Indians from the former British Raj or British India and Colonial India , were taken to thirteen mainland and island nations in the Caribbean as indentured workers to address the demand for ...
Chinese Jamaicans. Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century; there was another moment of migration in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the descendants of early migrants have moved abroad, primarily to Canada and the United States. [ 3]
Jamaica: Jamaican dollar: JMD Bank of Jamaica: float Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad and Tobago dollar: TTD Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago: float Turks and Caicos Islands: United States dollar: USD Federal Reserve Bank: float United States Virgin Islands Puerto Rico British Virgin Islands
Caribbean Airlines Limited is the state-owned airline and flag carrier of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. [ 5] Headquartered in Iere House in Piarco, the airline operates flights to the Caribbean, North America and South America from its base at Piarco International Airport, Trinidad. Presently Caribbean Airlines employs more than 1,600 people ...
From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957. Human settlement in Trinidad dates back at least 7,000 years. The earliest settlers, termed Archaic or Ortoiroid, are believed to have settled Trinidad and Tobago from actual Venezuela at northeastern South America around 4000 BC. Twenty-nine Archaic sites have been identified, mostly in south ...