He taught for six months at Jamaica Plain High School on Sumner Hill in Boston, and then joined the Army.

The PNP was defeated in the first universal elections held in Jamaica in 1944, winning only four of the 32 seats ( one elected independent joined the party afterwards ).

For the next several years he tried his hand at various careers, including plantation managing ( in Jamaica ) and logging ( in Mexico ), before he joined another sailing expedition.

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.

These included two McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10 widebodies that joined the fleet of British Caledonian Charter, BCal's charter division, four BAC One-Eleven 300 narrowbodies that replaced the seven One-Eleven 200s BCal had inherited from British United Airways at the time of its formation and two Airbus A300B4 widebodies that were placed with Air Jamaica.

To get revenge, No joined the criminal organization SPECTRE and relocated to his island in Crab Key, Jamaica.

Inez Andrews joined, at the suggestion of James Cleveland, the pianist and arranger for the group, in 1957 and left in 1962 to form her own group, the Andrewettes ( aka: The Gospel Challengers of Jamaica, New York ).

Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robert Shakespeare joined in the mid 1970s after having established themselves separately in Jamaica as professional musicians.

In 1938, Bernard C. Lewis of the Institute of Jamaica joined an Oxford University biological expedition to the Cayman Islands.

After the season, Fender joined a short tour of Jamaica led by Lord Tennyson, playing three first-class matches against the island's cricket team.

Returning to England in 1762, he joined the Board of Longitude — a team of scientists who tested John Harrison ’ s marine chronometer on a voyage to Jamaica.

She went to Montego Bay High School For Girls, then at age 19 joined the staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston.

In 1982 she joined the Institute of Jamaica as editor of the Jamaica Journal.

After two years with his father Richard joined his elder brother James ' merchant ship and made trading voyages between England and Jamaica.

In his early twenties, he joined CUSO, the Canadian version of the Peace Corps, and was placed in " Trenchtown " otherwise known as West Kingston, Jamaica where he taught in the local elementary school.

To aid navigation, Jamaica operates nine lighthouses

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.

England used seven slips in the first Test against West Indies in Jamaica in 2004 ; Australia went further and used the maximum of nine slips against Zimbabwe's lower order batsmen in a One Day International in 2001 ( the two non-slips fieldsmen in this example were the wicket-keeper and the bowler ).

Wolff has scored nine goals in fifty-two caps since his debut against Jamaica on September 8, 1999.

Sloane acquired approximately three hundred and fifty artificial curiosities from North American Indians, Eskimos, South America, the Lapland, Siberia, East Indies, and the West Indies, including nine items from Jamaica.

As of April 3, 2011 the public timetables show 169 weekday trains from Penn Station to or through Jamaica, 62 from Brooklyn, and nine from Long Island City / Hunterspoint Ave. All but two of those trains continue east from Jamaica, along with 28 weekday trains that originate there.

The Institute, which is based in The Hague, is active in nine developing countries: Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

It comprises nine campuses, with three major medical centers in Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, and Brockton.

Born as Devon Whyte in Kingston, Jamaica, his family immigrated to the United States when he was nine years old.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

The population of the Cayman Islands reflects its status as a British overseas territory, its history as a former dependency of Jamaica, and its present financial partnerships with the United States and other countries.

While it was able to establish itself on some islands, such as Barbados, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, other introductions, such as in Cuba before 1900 and in 1946, and on the islands of Dominica and Grand Cayman, were unsuccessful.

The other possibility was a CDU-FDP-Green coalition, known as a " Jamaica coalition " because of the colours of the three parties.

Jamaica and the other islands of the Antilles evolved from an arc of ancient volcanoes that rose from the sea millions of years ago.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Jamaica, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

The absence of large commercial centers, other than Kingston, Montego Bay and Ocho Rios has resulted in a poorly developed retail sector in Jamaica.

Railways in Jamaica, as in many other countries, no longer enjoy the prominent position they once did, having been largely replaced by roadways as the primary means of transport.

Jamaica is linked with the other countries of the English-speaking Caribbean through the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ), and more broadly through the Association of Caribbean States ( ACS ).

The ship crashes in Jamaica Bay, with the other X-Men unharmed.

Tierra Firme later received control over other territories: the Isla de Santiago ( now Jamaica ) the Cayman Islands ; Roncador, Quitasueño, and Providencia and other islands now under Colombian control.

Conferences and associations exist in many other countries including Australia, Brazil, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, New Zealand and amongst the Seventh Day Christians of Poland.

Comprising mainly ex-soldiers and promoted by some well-known black officers, teams such as the Jamaica Monitor Club, Albany Bachelors, Philadelphia Excelsiors and Chicago Uniques started playing each other and any other team that would play against them.

Bridgetown, the capital, was one of the three largest cities in British America ( the other two were Boston, Massachusetts and Port Royal, Jamaica.

He wrote " The Promised Key " the doctrine of Rastafari in Accara, Ghana and many other works which were burnt by the colonial government References :- Daily Gleaner Jamaica, The First Rasta by Helen Lee

Other than English, other language influences are based on oral traditions such as African griots, " talk over " of Jamaica and the blues.

Dominican soap is also exported throughout the region, but has recently encountered intensified competition from other regional producers, especially in the important export markets of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

Stars included Triple Olympic Champion Usain Bolt ( Jamaica ) alongside Ivory Williams ( USA ), Simeon Williamson ( UK ) and other international track stars.

It also had flights to the south, including Jamaica, Venezuela and other South American countries.

Its original settlers were Jamaica Bay fishermen, generally lawless and troublesome to other Rockaway residents.

The Lawrence station provides Long Island Rail Road service on the Far Rockaway Branch to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn with connections at Jamaica to other parts of Long Island.

During this period, Jamaica and other towns in the West River Valley bonded together in a venture that was seen as the salvation of the area ’ s economic woes, the West River Railroad.