Probably shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, he moved there from Jamaica, and with most privateers once involved in the war, became involved in piracy.

From the 1950s onwards London became home to a large number of immigrants, largely from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica, India, Bangladesh Pakistan, which dramatically changed the face of London, turning it into one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.

Under early English rule Jamaica became a haven of privateers, buccaneers, and occasionally outright pirates: Christopher Myngs, Edward Mansvelt, and most famously, Henry Morgan.

Those Maroons, first shipped from Jamaica to Nova Scotia, eventually became part of the core of the Creole community of Sierra Leone.

When Jamaica was granted independence from Britain in August 1962, the Turks & Caicos Islands became a Crown colony.

1: Newfoundland ; 2: Nova Scotia ; 3: The Thirteen Colonies ; 4: Bermuda ; 5: Bahamas ; 6: British Honduras ( was Spanish c1750: became British in 1798 ); 7: Jamaica ; 8: British Leeward Islands and Barbados

After returning from his nature trip, in June 1956, Fleming became involved in a project with Henry Morgenthau, III to collaborate on a television series Commander Jamaica, centred in the Caribbean with the main character of James Gunn.

* Santiago, a Spanish possession that later became Jamaica

In 1979, a Jamaican, Maria Ziadie-Haddad, became one of the first women in the Western Hemisphere to become a commercial jet airline pilot when she was hired by Air Jamaica 1968 Ltd as a B727 Second Officer.

After the Great Fire of London, it was settled by the well-to-do and took on the character of a garden suburb especially along the lines of Grange Road, as Bermondsey Street became more urbanised, and of Jamaica / Lower Road.

In 2007 Ashley returned to his birth country of Jamaica and became the first GM to ever participate in a tournament in that country.

In 1949 Vincent Burke ( born 1 December 1917 in Philadelphia ; died March 1978 in Philadelphia ), a 130 pound Hebrew-speaking black Jew, the son of an immigrant father from Kingston, Jamaica, who worked as a chicken plucker at Jake's Chicken Market, a kosher butcher shop at 40th and Girard, as well as a carpenter, who was a guitar player, became his stepfather.

* Jamaica ( 1932 ) 6968-ton turbo-electric cruise liner became

In 1981, after becoming significantly popular throughout Jamaica, Yellowman became the first dancehall artist to be signed to a major American label ( Columbia Records ).

Mobile sound systems that played American hits became popular in the 1950s in Kingston, Jamaica.

He became a bigger star in the UK than in Jamaica, his self-produced " Hard Time Pressure " being a major UK reggae hit in 1980, leading Minott to relocate to the UK, where he became a focus for UK reggae.

After graduation, Allen studied in France, taught at Brighton College in 1870-71 and in his mid-twenties became a professor at Queen's College, a black college in Jamaica.

On 26 February 2006, Portia Simpson-Miller was elected as Patterson's successor, becoming the first female president of the PNP and became the Prime Minister of Jamaica.

The territories of the federation eventually became the nine contemporary sovereign states of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago ; with British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands becoming British overseas territories.

Mamby became interested in boxing while on vacation in Jamaica, and compiled an amateur record of 25 – 5 before turning pro in 1969.

James Bruce became Governor of Jamaica in 1842, and in 1847 was appointed Governor General of Canada.

In 1862 British Honduras became a Crown Colony and was placed under the Governor of Jamaica with its own Lieutenant-Governor.

The base was also an important intermediate distribution point for World War II merchant shipping convoys from New York City and Key West, Florida, to the Panama Canal and the islands of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

In 2005, contestants came from the Bahamas, Jamaica, Guam, the U. S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Canada, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and a German military base, as well as the United States.

* Jamaica Bay Research and Management Information Network-Community-driven knowledge base of past, present, and future activities in Jamaica Bay

Tower Air's main base of scheduled operations was John F. Kennedy International Airport in Jamaica, New York and during its peak had its own terminal ( a former Pan Am Admin facility ).

The Maldives National Olympic Committee will base its competing athletes in Bedford, while Paralympic athletes from Angola, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Gambia, Ghana, Côte d ' Ivoire, Jamaica, Lesotho, Morocco, Niger, Pakistan, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda will also be based in the area.

Around 1640 Blauvelt became a privateer serving the Swedish East India Company and in 1644 he commanded his own ship successfully raiding Spanish shipping from a base in southwest Jamaica, today known as Bluefields Bay, and selling the cargo and prizes to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam ( New York ).

International AirLink offers domestic services from its base at Sangster International across Jamaica to the following destinations:

This expedition, which had originally sailed from a base in Jamaica, consisted of seven large boats and several canoes.

During Winter he is coached in Jamaica by Stephen Francis, who also coaches Asafa Powell and in Summer his base is in Birmingham with Fuzz Ahmed as his coach.

In the early 1880s, operations were extended to other countries, notably the United States, France, Switzerland, Sweden and others, including to most of the countries of the British Empire: Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Jamaica, etc.

In 1957, the bank opened a branch in Nassau, the Bahamas, and in the subsequent years expanded its operations in Jamaica.

* 1973-RBC was forced to incorporate its operations in Jamaica, which became Royal Bank ( Jamaica ).

Entire Caribbean ' phone exchanges ( such as + 1-876-HOT -...) numbers in Jamaica, plus numbers in Antigua, Montserrat and a number of other Caribbean or overseas countries ) are used to bypass consumer protection laws which govern premium numbers and phone sex operations such as + 1-900 or 976 services in the victim's home country.

It operated from HMS Buzzard at Palisadoes, Jamaica in spring 1942 and it subsequently embarked on HMS Biter in June 1942 for the UK, where it joined RAF Coastal Command in January 1943 for operations in the English Channel from RAF Thorney Island.

After being arrested on a minor charge in Canada he served a brief sentence before moving to Jamaica, where he coordinated marijuana and cocaine smuggling operations going from Colombia to the United States and Canada.

With the million dollars from the Tong, he purchased rare stamps in order to preserve his money against inflation ; he later purchased the island of Crab Key, off the coast of Jamaica, where he re-started a defunct guano business as a cover for his proposed criminal operations.

AWAC also has operations or interests in Texas, Suriname, Jamaica, Brazil, Spain, Guinea, and owns Alcoa Steamship.

* 14 October – Air Jamaica Express ceased operations.

The airline expanded operations to include San Juan and Kingston, Jamaica.

It has major operations / projects in eighteen countries ( Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Jamaica, New Caledonia, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, the United States and the United Kingdom ) and it is a major producer of copper, coking coal, thermal coal, nickel, ferrochrome, vanadium and zinc.

Founded by Jamaican-born Gordon " Butch " Stewart in 1981, SRI is based in Montego Bay, Jamaica and is responsible for resort development, service standards, training and day-to-day operations.

Stewart oversees all areas of SRI operations, which is headquartered in Montego Bay, Jamaica.