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Tyrone Marshall, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; Darren Mattocks, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; Mike McCallum, champion boxer; Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-born Slovenian sprinter, the world's most winning female athlete; Asafa Powell, sprinter, former 100m world record holder
According to the official Jamaica Population Census of 1970, ethnic origins categories in Jamaica include: Black; Chinese; East Indian; White; and 'Other' (e.g.: Syrian or Lebanese). [1] Jamaicans who consider themselves Black (according to the United States' One-drop rule definition of Black), made up 92% of the working population. Those of ...
Richard James (born 1 December 1979) is a Jamaican former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 8th World Athletics Indoor Championships gold medallist in the 4 × 400 m relay. He was an All-American track and field runner for the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and won medals at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics ...
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In 2023 she won her fourth Jamaican national championship title in the hammer throw. [3] That year, she set a lifetime best mark of 71.18 metres in Canada. [4] She became the first Jamaican to compete in the Hammer Throw competition at the World Athletics Championships (man or woman) at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [5]
Lisa Rene Shanti Hanna (born 20 August 1975) [1] is a Jamaican politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1993, [2] becoming the third Jamaican to win the title. A member of the opposition People's National Party, Hanna currently serves as Member of Parliament for Saint Ann South East, and was Jamaica's Minister of Youth and Culture from 2012–2016.
Jamaica's leading annual film event The Reggae Film Festival takes place each February in Jamaica's capital city, Kingston. Members of Jamaica's film industry gather here to make new links and many new projects have grown from the event. Jamaica has many talented film makers but there is a great lack of available funds and resources for filmmakers.
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. [9]