Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled Jamaica Inn.

Although all administrative links with Jamaica were broken in 1962, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica continue to share many links and experiences, including membership in the Commonwealth of Nations ( and Commonwealth citizenship ) and a common united church ( the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands ) and Anglican diocese ( although there is debate about this ) as well as a common currency ( until 1972 ).

12, 000 went to Britain, while about 3, 000 went to Madeira or Jamaica, with the rest moving to Spain or Tanger.

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.

Cocoa is grown throughout Jamaica and local sales absorb about 1 / 3 of the output to be made into instant drinks and confectionery.

The tourism industry earns over 50 percent of the country's total foreign exchange earnings and provides about one-fourth of all jobs in Jamaica.

* Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade about relations with Jamaica

* Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn ( 1936 ) – a novel about both smugglers and wreckers in CornwallPoster for an 1896 American production of Carmen

The plane's vertical stabilizer and rudder separated in flight and fell into Jamaica Bay, about 1 mile north of the main wreckage site.

After reading about the Somersett's Case, Joseph Knight, an enslaved African who had been purchased by his master John Wedderburn in Jamaica and brought to Scotland, left him.

Other sources have estimated that in the 2000s they formed " about 5 percent of the population " of Jamaica, or have conjectured that " there are perhaps as many as 100, 000 Rastafarians in Jamaica ".

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

In 1856, large guano deposits were discovered on Navassa Island, a small barren island about 15 miles off the coast of Jamaica.

, there are sixteen Commonwealth realms, with a combined land area ( excluding Antarctic claims ) of 18. 8 million km² ( 7. 3 million mi² ) and a population of 137 million, of which all but about two million live in the six most populous states: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Jamaica.

Jamaica Bay is a saline to brackish, eutrophic ( nutrient-rich ) estuary covering about, with a mean depth of, a semidiurnal tidal range averaging, and a residence time of about three weeks.

* In 2002 Wyclef starred in the Jamaican crime film, Shottas as " Richie Effs ", about two young men who participate in organized crime in Kingston, Jamaica and Miami, Florida.

In addition, about of Floyd Bennett Field along Jamaica Bay was set aside by the city on long-term lease to the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) in 1936, for the creation of Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn ( CGAS Brooklyn ).

" At some point during one of Fleming's visits to Jamaica he met with the real Bond and his wife as shown in a made for DVD documentary about Fleming.

** For information about the Jamaican people, see Demographics of Jamaica

When Bustamante withdrew Jamaica from the Federation, this left Trinidad and Tobago in the untenable position of having to provide 75 % of the Federal budget while having less than half the seats in the Federal government.

Following Britain's conquest of Jamaica in 1655, a half pint or " 2 gills " of rum gradually replaced beer and brandy as the drink of choice.

In the early 1970s plans to extend I-95 from Canton north into downtown Boston, threatened to bring I-95 through the center of Jamaica Plain essentially dividing the community in half.

In the last half of the 20th century, Dorchester had another wave of immigrants, this time from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Cape Verde, as well as other Latin American, Asian, and African nations.

Queens Boulevard runs northwest to southeast across more than half the length of the borough, starting at Crescent Street at the Queensboro Bridge entrance in Long Island City and running through the neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Woodside, Elmhurst, Rego Park, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, and Briarwood before terminating at Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica.

After three and a half years in the antipodes, Musgrave returned to the Caribbean as governor of Jamaica.

It primarily serves surrounding residential neighborhoods and is half a mile from Jamaica Plain's primary business district on Centre Street.

Because he had shared half of the bounty of his 1659 raid, about a quarter of a million pounds, with the buccaneers against the explicit orders of Edward D ' Oyley, the English Commander of Jamaica, he was arrested for embezzlement and on the Marston Moor sent back to England in 1660.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

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 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.

Although in its early days, the Cayman Islands ' most important relationships were with Britain and Jamaica, in recent years, this has shifted, and they now rely more so on the United States and Canada.

Following at least ten preparatory meetings over the years, the Authority held its first inaugural meeting in its host country, Jamaica, on 16 November 1994, the day the Convention came into force.

The Spanish settled in Jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city, now called Spanish Town, which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872.

This settlement served as the capital of both Spanish and English Jamaica from its foundation in 1534 until 1872 after which the capital was moved to Kingston.

At its greatest extent, Jamaica is, and its width varies between.

In 2000, Jamaica experienced its first year of positive growth since 1995.

Owing to its location in the Caribbean Sea in the shipping lane to the Panama Canal and relative proximity to large markets in North America and emerging markets in Latin America, Jamaica receives high container traffic.

In the fall of 1997, Jamaica upgraded its consulate in Havana to an embassy, and the nonresident Jamaican ambassador to Cuba was replaced by a resident ambassador.

Upon its suicide by way of a disintegration ray, the Phoenix Force disperses into its original form and a fragment locates the still-healing Jean at the bottom of Jamaica Bay.

* The Jamaica national bobsled team received major media attention and stunned the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada for its unexpected good performance.

From 1953 to 1983 the Jamaica Omnibus Service operated a service, which at its peak consisted of over 600 buses and served an area spanning Spanish Town, Border, Mt.

The Jamaica Defence Force ( JDF ) has its headquarters at Up Park Camp near New Kingston and Cross Roads.

Although the Bermuda sloop is often described as a development of the narrower-beamed Jamaica sloop, which dates from the 1670s, the high, raked masts and triangular sails of its Bermuda rig are rooted in a tradition of Bermudian boat design dating from the early 17th century.

He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is The Innocent Voyage ( 1929 ), better known now as A High Wind in Jamaica, as Hughes himself would rename it shortly after its initial publication.

Jamaica received its first shipment of 4000 slaves in 1518.