The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is the government ministry responsible for handling the Jamaica's external relations and foreign trade.

* Henke, Holger ( 2000 ) Between Self-Determination and Dependency: Jamaica's foreign relations, 1972-1989.

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.

Historically, the Kingston waterfront was Jamaica's main port with many finger piers at which freighters and passenger liners could dock.

The Gleaner Company, the Jamaica Observer and the Sunday Herald, three of Jamaica's large newspaper companies, make their home in Kingston.

* April 18-Eddie Perkins retains the world Jr. Welterweight title over Bunny Grant, who was attempting to be Jamaica's first boxing world champion, with a fifteen round decision, Kingston, Jamaica.

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.

The National Gallery of Jamaica, in Kingston, Jamaica, is Jamaica's premier art collection.

Jamaica's leading annual film event The Reggae Film Festival takes place each February in Jamaica's capital city, Kingston.

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.

MBJ is currently the busiest of Jamaica's three international airports, the others being the Norman Manley International Airport located in the capital city of Kingston and the Ian Fleming International Airport located in Boscobel, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica.

Patterson received his secondary education at one of Jamaica's most prominent learning institutions, Calabar High School, before moving on to pursue higher studies at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus, and later the London School of Economics.

It became the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, lasting 10 days and mobilized as many as 60, 000 of Jamaica's 300, 000 slave population.

The National Stadium is primarily used for football ( being the home field of the Jamaica Football Federation ) but is also considered the apex of Athletic competition in the West Indies being home to Jamaica's national athletic team for the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games.

* USA: This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music, 2001 for the US version, Grove Press, USA, ISBN 0-8021-3828-4

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.

The British also used Jamaica's free people of color, 10, 000 strong by 1800, to keep the enslaved population in check.

Remittances from the expatriate communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada make increasingly significant contributions to Jamaica's economy.

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.

Jamaica's current Constitution was drafted in 1962 by a bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature.

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 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.

However, disagreement over the structure of the federation led to Jamaica's withdrawal.

" 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.

* September 1 – 175 die in Jamaica's worst railway disaster.

The station opened in 1845 and closed in October 1992 when all passenger traffic on Jamaica's railways abruptly ceased.

Jamaica's police force, the Jamaica Constabulary Force, is based on Old Hope Road near Liguanea.

Bacchanal, Jamaica's carnival, is typically held around the time of Easter, highly similar to carnivals held in places such as Barbados or Trinidad.

The buccaneers were invited by Jamaica's Governor Thomas Modyford to base ships at Port Royal.

One factor was the statement of Senator J. W. Fulbright ( D ) of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

At a closed-door session on Capitol Hill last week, Secretary of State Christian Herter made his final report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. affairs abroad.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

* Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations: list of bilateral treaties with Angola ( in Spanish only )

In Brazil, the Ministry of Foreign Relations continues to dominate trade policy, causing the country's commercial interests to be ( at times ) subsumed by a larger foreign policy goal, namely, enhancing Brazil's influence in Latin America and the world.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

" Historians and Cold War Origins: The New Consensus ", in Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review ( 1981 ), 207-236.

* The Communist Party of China — Council on Foreign Relations

Senator John Kerry's 1988 Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

* Dominican Secretary of State for Foreign Relations

Eisenhower's stint as president of Columbia University was punctuated by his activity within the Council on Foreign Relations, a study group he led as president concerning the political and military implications of the Marshall Plan, and The American Assembly, Eisenhower's " vision of a great cultural center where business, professional and governmental leaders could meet from time to time to discuss and reach conclusions concerning problems of a social and political nature ".

Through his involvement in the Council on Foreign Relations, he also gained exposure to economic analysis, which would become the bedrock of his understanding in economic policy.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

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On 31 October 2007 the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, by a vote of 17 to 4, recommended ratification, and President George W. Bush publicly supported U. S. accession to the Convention ; no date has yet been set for action by the full Senate.

Falsifiers was published in response to the documents made public in Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which included the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and other secret German-Soviet relations documents.

In January 2011 Senator Freddie Cohen was appointed as Assistant Chief Minister with responsibility for UK and International Relations ( in effect, Jersey's first Foreign Minister ).

In 2006 Kemp, along with 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, co-chaired the Council on Foreign Relations task force on Russia, producing a document called " Russia ’ s Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do ".

From Colony to Superpower: U. S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Oxford University Press, 2008 ISBN 0-19-976553-7

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