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* Jamaica's Baptist War, 1831 – 1832, led by the Baptist preacher, Samuel Sharpe.
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In 1865, Dr. Edward Underhill, Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society of Great Britain, wrote a letter to the Colonial Office in order to express Jamaica's current poor state of affairs.
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The Christmas Rebellion, also known as the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831 – 32, was a 8-day rebellion that mobilized as many as 60, 000 of Jamaica's 300, 000 slave population.
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* September 1 – 175 die in Jamaica's worst railway disaster.
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However, disagreement over the structure of the federation led to Jamaica's withdrawal.
It was Bustamante's decision that the JLP would not contest a by-election to the federal parliament that resulted in his rival and cousin, Premier Norman Manley, calling the referendum in 1961 that led to Jamaica's withdrawal and the break-up of the Federation.
He himself chaired the committee with great distinction and then led the team that negotiated Jamaica's independence from Britain.
The heat itself was led by the United States ' Shawn Crawford ( 20. 55 seconds ) and Jamaica's Christopher Williams ( 20. 57 seconds ).
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The British also used Jamaica's free people of color, 10, 000 strong by 1800, to keep the enslaved population in check.
Jamaica's current Constitution was drafted in 1962 by a bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature.
The buccaneers were invited by Jamaica's Governor Thomas Modyford to base ships at Port Royal.
Rocksteady was the music of Jamaica's rude boys by the mid-1960s, when The Wailers and The Clarendonians dominated the charts.
Manley's second term focused on liberalizing Jamaica's economy, with the pursuit of a free-market programme that stood in marked contrast to the interventionist economic policies pursued by Manley's first government.
U-Roy had become one of Jamaica's biggest stars by the early 1980s, also garnering significant acclaim in the United Kingdom.
The Prime Minister is formally appointed into office by the Governor General of Jamaica, who represents Elizabeth II, the Queen of Jamaica ( Jamaica's Head of State ).
Moore was active in Jamaica's colonial affairs, and by 1756 he had risen to the rank of Governor.
Montego Bay is served by Jamaica's largest airport, the Sir Donald Sangster International Airport.
The Earl of Elgin, Jamaica's Governor presided over the opening ceremonies, by the late 1860s the line extended 105 miles to Montego Bay.
This record was Jamaica's first to involve an element of African music-the drumming in the record was provided by Count Ossie, the lead nyabinghi drummer from the rastafarian camp, Camp David, in the hills above Kingston.
Jamaica's state ensign is a Blue Ensign with the Jamaican national flag in the canton ; it is normally only used by the Jamaican Government.
Jamaica's naval ensign is a White Ensign with a Saint George's Cross and the Jamaican national flag in the canton, although due to the island's lack of a navy, it is normally only used by the Jamaican Coastguard.
It is expected to be explained in detail Monday 18 May 2009 by the Governor of Jamaica's Central Bank Derick Milton Latibeaudiere.
Jamaica's signing of this treaty was regarded by critics as a de facto recognition of Colombian sovereignty over the two banks.
He produced further hits during 1967-68 by Lester Sterling and Stranger Cole, Derrick Morgan, Slim Smith and The Uniques (" My Conversation "), Pat Kelly, and The Sensations, establishing him as one of Jamaica's top producers.
Johns, despite his antipathy towards Jamaica's Rastafarians, also provided exposure for Count Ossie's group of drummers after singer Marguerita Mahfood refused to appear on his show unless she was backed by Ossie's Mystic Revelation group ; The group proved popular with the audience and went on to perform regularly in Kingston.
The current men's world record is 9. 58 seconds, set by Jamaica's Usain Bolt, while American Florence Griffith-Joyner holds the women's world record of 10. 49 seconds.
Mentored by the late, great Peter Tosh, one of Jamaica's original Wailers with Bob Marley, Jimi, a native of Oklahoma, met Peter Tosh in 1976 and went to live in Jamaica in 1981, getting the roots of the music and " kulcha " from the source.
Although the studio itself was somewhat rudimentary in its set-up and particularly basic with regard to some of the dated equipment employed by Perry, it was nonetheless the breeding ground for some of Jamaica's ( and arguably the world's ) most innovative sounds and recording techniques in the latter half of the 1970s.
Maxwell qualified for the Scripps competition by winning Jamaica's National Spelling Bee Championship, which her sister Janice had also won in 1990.
In past years, when Jamaica's economy was dominated by plantation slavery, some slaves Maroons were able to escape to the Blue Mountains and live independently.
The organ was played by Winston Wright who, as a member of Tommy McCook's Supersonics, was acknowledged as Jamaica's master of the Hammond organ.
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BDP referenced reggae in a way that helped to solidify Jamaica's place in modern hip-hop culture.
Upon Jamaica's independence in 1962, the Cayman Islands broke its administrative links with Jamaica and opted to become a direct dependency of the British Crown, with the chief official of the islands being the Administrator.
Remittances from the expatriate communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada make increasingly significant contributions to Jamaica's economy.
Jamaica's Foreign Relations 1972-1989, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press.
In 1980, for example, Hurricane Allen destroyed nearly all Jamaica's banana crop.
Although most of Jamaica's native vegetation has been stripped in order to make room for cultivation, some areas have been left virtually undisturbed since the time of Columbus.
The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica's economy from sugar and bananas.
By the late 1890, only of Jamaica's original of forest remained.
Tourism is tied with remittances as Jamaica's top source of revenue.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is the government ministry responsible for handling the Jamaica's external relations and foreign trade.
The United States is Jamaica's most important trading partner: bilateral trade in goods in 2005 was over $ 2 billion.
When the federation collapsed in 1962, following Jamaica's withdrawal, a smaller federation was briefly attempted.
" Trinidad and Tobago chose not bear the financial burden without Jamaica's assistance, and the Federation collapsed.
The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the Disney movie Cool Runnings five years later which was based on Jamaica's 1988 bobsled team.
The St William Grant Park ( Parade ) in the heart of downtown Kingston is the starting point for three of Jamaica's four A roads, namely the A1 ( Kingston to Lucea ), the A3 ( Kingston to Saint Ann's Bay ) and the A4 ( Kingston to Annotto Bay ), while the city itself is provided with a dense network of trunk, main, secondary and minor roads.
The station opened in 1845 and closed in October 1992 when all passenger traffic on Jamaica's railways abruptly ceased.
Historically, the Kingston waterfront was Jamaica's main port with many finger piers at which freighters and passenger liners could dock.
Jamaica's police force, the Jamaica Constabulary Force, is based on Old Hope Road near Liguanea.
The Gleaner Company, the Jamaica Observer and the Sunday Herald, three of Jamaica's large newspaper companies, make their home in Kingston.
Bacchanal, Jamaica's carnival, is typically held around the time of Easter, highly similar to carnivals held in places such as Barbados or Trinidad.
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