Jamaica's naval White Ensign

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jamaica's music culture is a fusion of elements from the United States ( rhythm and blues and soul ), Africa, and neighboring Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago ( calypso and soca ).

Craven " A " is Jamaica's favourite brand of cigarette and a famous Jamaican artist Vybz Kartel mentions it in some of his songs such as " di way we roll ".

The Prime Minister of Jamaica is Jamaica's head of government, currently Portia Simpson Miller.

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 ).

Montego Bay is served by Jamaica's largest airport, the Sir Donald Sangster International Airport.

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

Jamaica's film industry is not widely known, but it is growing.

It is expected to be explained in detail Monday 18 May 2009 by the Governor of Jamaica's Central Bank Derick Milton Latibeaudiere.

He has received recognition both on and off the field, a statue of him is proudly positioned at the entrance to Jamaica's National Stadium.

Studio One is one of Jamaica's most renowned record labels and recording studios, having been described as " the Motown of Jamaica.

Buju Bantuan aka Katjoko ( not to be confused with Jamaica's Buju Banton ), the late La Chox and Kamasutra are one of the youngest reggae artist, Faizel Mc the king of th jungle, being a part of the kwiku style, most of his love is based on this category Afrobeat.

* Deejaying or Dancehall is the Jamaican precursor to hip hop, based on Deejays ( Jamaica's emcees ) toasting ( talking ) over instrumental tracks or riddims.

Club management is also setting the pace in bringing true professionalism to Jamaica's football landscape.

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.

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

Out of the blocks, John Treloar took a step ahead, but Remigino the eventual Olympic champion and several more quickly picked him up, with Jamaica's Herb McKenley lagging well behind.

( short for Association of World Super Men ) alongside Tiki Torch and Comrade Red ( who apparently reformed ) where they were seen with other superheroes exclusive to the show ( like United Kingdom's Big Ben, Jamaica's Ya-Mon, Africa's Mandingo, Australia's Down Under Mate, Japan's E-Male, China's Mushu Gai Man, Mexico's Mucho Muchacho, and other unnamed generic superheroes ) and two characters that look like Space Ghost and Birdman.

Political unrest also played its part, with the 1972 election campaign of Michael Manley targeting the support of Jamaica's ghetto communities.

* Interview with Graham Brown-Martin for Air Jamaica's Skywritings Magazine

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.

In the 29 December 2011 general election, the PNP was returned to power with 42 of the 63 seats in Jamaica's parliament.

* 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.

After graduating he held positions with Jamaica's National Planning Agency and the Jamaica Bauxite Institute before returning to Barbados and joining the Ministry of Finance and Planning in 1981.

Jamaica's claim has been largely dormant since entering into a number of bilateral agreements with Colombia.

He himself chaired the committee with great distinction and then led the team that negotiated Jamaica's independence from Britain.

However, In his next match against Jamaica, Beckerman's play was highly criticized after his inability to keep up with Jamaica's forwards, which resulted in him committing a foul, and deflecting the resulting free kick into the goal to level the game.

The latter half of the 1970s saw Lee work with some of Jamaica's top new talent, including Linval Thompson, Leroy Smart, and Barry Brown.

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.

Jamaica's currency is the Jamaican dollar, not to be confused with the US dollar.

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.

An example of Perry's inventive style was his ability to overdub layers of sound effects and instrumentation on each recording track of a basic 4-track machine, with such precise timing and in such a way that the resulting sound would destroy the competition from Jamaica's other top producers using the latest 16-track mixing consoles.

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.