The original Jamaican versions can now be heard on the " Jamaica — Mento1951 – 1958 " CD released in 2010.

In the only warm up match before the series — against a Jamaican XI, the Australians drew controversy from various sections of the media as they chose to wear a sponsors cap over the traditional Baggy Green cap.

# Hopeton Eric Brown — Jamaican drug baron / murderer

Clarks shoes are popular in Jamaica — thanks to Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel.

Joe Gibbs born Joel A. Gibson ( 14 October 1942, Montego Bay — 21 February 2008 ) was a Jamaican reggae producer.

The two major Jamaican political parties — the People's National Party and the Jamaica Labour Party – had emerged in Kingston and violently enforced code that ensured only their party's supporters had access to jobs and services.

This action did not result in significant chart success for her — she has asserted in interviews that the reggae influences on her 1991 debut album Jamaican Funk: Canadian Style met with resistance from American label executives and radio programmers.

The I Threes were a Jamaican reggae singing group made up of three women, that was formed in 1974 to support Bob Marley & The Wailers after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer — the original Wailer backing vocalists — left the band.

All freed slaves — the Jamaican Maroons, African Americans, Nova Scotian Settlers, Sierra Leone Liberated Africans — influenced Krio, but the Jamaican Maroons, Nova Scotian Settlers, Igbo and Yoruba Liberated Africans were the most influential.

The original skinhead subculture started in the late 1960s, and had heavy British mod and Jamaican rude boy influences — including an appreciation for ska, early reggae and soul music .< ref >

* — Article about hurricane damage to the Jamaican crop

Rap developed both inside and outside of hip hop culture, and began in America in earnest with the street parties thrown in the Bronx neighborhood of New York in the 1970s by Kool Herc and others — Jamaican born DJ Clive " Kool Herc " Campbell is credited as being highly influential in the pioneering stage of hip hop music, Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting, boastful poetry and speech over music.

108 Jamaican folk songs were published 1907 in Walter Jekyll's Jamaican Song and Story.

In 1968 Gonsalves led a student protest of the deportation of historian and intellectual Walter Rodney by the Jamaican government.

Walter Bishop Sr. ( January 9, 1905 – January 8, 1984 ) was a Jamaican composer and songwriter.

The riots were inspired when the Jamaican government of Hugh Shearer banned Guyanese university lecturer Dr. Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

In 1803, the inhabitants signed a petition addressed to the Jamaican governor asking him to grant them a tax exemption from the " Transient Tax on Wreck Goods ".

Jamaican Creole uses pan ( from English " upon ") for the present progressive and wa ( from English " was ") for the past progressive.

In this regard they are similar to Jamaican dry forests, but differ sharply from dry forests on the mainland of South and Central America, which are dominated by Fabaceae and Bignoniaceae

The UK hip-hop scene tended to sample more deeply from Jamaican influences, due to the larger Caribbean ancestry of the British black population, and the existing mass British popularity of reggae, dancehall and dub in the 1980s.

Recent linguistic research suggests that today, certain elements of Cockney English are declining in usage within the East End of London and the accent has migrated to Outer London and the Home Counties: in London's East End, some traditional features of Cockney have been displaced by a Jamaican Creole-influenced variety popular among young Londoners ( sometimes referred to as " Jafaican "), particularly, though far from exclusively, those of Afro-Caribbean descent.

After nearly being captured by Jamaican privateers, and hearing that the king had extended the deadline being pardoned for piracy, Rackham and his crew returned to Nassau and received pardons from Woodes Rogers.

Quantities of Jamaican mahogany also went to the North American colonies, but most of the wood used in American furniture came from the Bahamas.

Ali G is a stereotype of a white suburban male from Staines ( now Staines-upon-Thames ) who imitates rap culture as well as urban British and Jamaican culture, particularly through hip hop, reggae, drum and bass and jungle music.

Jamaican Sloops were slightly different from Bermuda Sloops, the most obvious difference being that these ships were built on the shores of Jamaica.

In England, Pato Banton explored his Caribbean roots humorous and political toasting and Ranking Roger of the Second Wave or Two-Tone ska revival band the Beat from the 1980s did Jamaican toasting over music that blended ska, pop, and some punk influences.

In the early ' 80s, hip hop spread to Italy from Jamaican raggamuffin, especially in centri sociali, alternative centers where several left-wing young people regularly meet.

Ginger tea is often made from fresh ginger, as well as the famous regional specialty Jamaican ginger cake.

Jamaican bromeliads are home to Metopaulias depressus, a reddish-brown crab 2 cm ( 0. 75 inch ) across, which has evolved social behavior to protect its young from predation by Diceratobasis macrogaster, a species of damselfly whose larvae live in bromeliads.

It originates from Panamanian Spanish reggae and Jamaican dancehall, however received its rise to popularity through Puerto Rico.

Music from non-Latin parts of the Caribbean are also popular throughout Latin America, especially Jamaican reggae and dub, Trinidadian calypso music and soca.

He accused the United States of orchestrating the coup d ' état against him with support from Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson and among others.

When asked what happened, John finds the blood symbol used by the Posse during the murders vandalized on a carpet the next day and gets information about it from a Jamaican voodoo and gang expert named Leslie ( Pacula ) who works part time as a detective.

Other elements of the novel came from people Fleming knew or had heard of: Red Grant, the name of a Jamaican river guide described as " a cheerful, voluble giant of villainous aspect ", was used for the half-German, half-Irish assassin, while Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin of Soviet Intelligence.

In 1956, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden visited Fleming's Jamaican Goldeneye estate, to recuperate from a breakdown in his health.

* Tivoli Gardens F. C., a Jamaican football team from Tivoli Gardens, Kingston

The first Balham Food Festival took place from 10 to 14 July 2011, featuring a range of events including restaurant taster menus, a hog roast and a Jamaican cookery demonstrations.

Some time around 4: 30 p. m. gunfire between rival Jamaican gangs, who were bused-in from out of town, broke out resulting in two deaths and a number of injuries.

He also drew up plans to attack French islands in the Caribbean the following year at the suggestion of a Jamaican sugar planter William Beckford.

They include the Organization of American States, British High Commission, Mexican Embassy, Embassy of The Republic of China ( Taiwan ) ( in Rodney Bay ), Dominican Republic Consulate, French Embassy, Italian Vice Consulate, Jamaican Consulate, Netherlands Consulate, Norwegian Consulate, and Venezuelan Embassy.

The other languages included Spanish which was at 3. 34 %, French was at 1. 36 %, and Jamaican Creole & ( Jamaican ) Patois added together, made up 0. 52 % of all residents.

As of 2000, before being annexed to Miami Gardens, English as a first language accounted for 75. 24 % of all residents, while Spanish was spoken by 21. 04 %, French Creole was at 3. 27 %, and Jamaican Creole as a mother tongue made up 0. 44 % of the population.

Often these patois are popularly considered " bastardizations " of English, " broken English ", or slang, but cases such as Jamaican patois are classified with more correctness as a creole language ; in fact, in the Francophone Caribbean the analogous term for local variants of French is créole ( see also Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole ).

Again following a stroke, her normal Geordie accent was transformed and has been variously described as resembling a Jamaican, as well as a French Canadian, Italian, and a Slovak accent.

Jamaican Cuisine has been adapted by African, Indian, British, French, Spanish, Chinese influences.

French Caribbean's " Poulet boucané " is quite similar to traditional Jamaican jerk chicken.

Note: *= France or French DOM ( Départements d ’ Outre-Mer )* Although Jamaica is a qualifying country under the EU Regulation, Jamaican law currently prevents the involvement of that country in PETS.

He was later sold by his British master to a French plantation owner after he attempted to teach other Jamaican slaves to read, who put him to work as a commandeur ( slave driver ) and, later, a coach driver.

His French name came from his English nickname, " Book Man ," which some scholars, despite his having been a Vodou houngan, have interpreted as meaning that he was Muslim since even in Africa a Muslim was referred to as a " man of the book ": " It is likely that Boukman was a Jamaican Muslim who had a Quran, and that he got his nickname from this.

Hélène Lee is a French journalist who specialises in Jamaican and West African music.

Musically, Ukrainian hip hop is heavily influenced by Jamaican reggae, French hip hop, German hip hop and Ukrainian folk music, resulting a very tuneful and mellow sound, which makes it quite different from both Russian and American counterparts.

Miller is of multiracial origin: his father is of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish and Cherokee background, and his mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese ancestry.

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