Jamaican Government economic policies encourage foreign investment in areas that earn or save foreign exchange, generate employment, and use local raw materials.

Negotiations with the Government of Guyana brokered by the Jamaican Prime Minister in 2000 did not produce an agreement but the countries agreed to restart talks after Guyanese national elections in 2001.

* Jamaican Government site on the Anthem ( with lyrics ) and Pledges

The Jamaican Government spent US $ 81 million for " on the pitch " expenses.

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.

The reaction of the Jamaican Government and plantocracy was far more brutal.

In 1970 he went to Canada on a scholarship program sponsored by the Jamaican Government to study Civil Engineering at McMaster University,

Lee-Chin worked briefly as a road engineer for the Jamaican Government,

Lee-Chin saw potential in his native country, and Portland purchased 75 per cent of the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica for 6 billion Jamaican dollars ( US $ 127 million ) from the Jamaican Government.

In a sitting of Parliament on 16 March 2010, Opposition member Dr. Peter Phillips made reference to an alleged contractual arrangement between the Government and a United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby the US Government on a treaty dispute between the two countries that had arisen as a result of the Jamaican Government refusing to sign an extradition request for Christopher ' Dudus ' Coke, who is wanted in the US on charges relating to narcotics, arms and ammunition trafficking.

Golding denied claims that Manatt, Phelps & Phillips was contracted to represent the Jamaican Government.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips maintains that they were contracted on behalf of the Jamaican Government through Harold C. W.

Brady of Brady and Co and have since severed ties with the Jamaican Government.

BET owned and operated Jamaica Omnibus Service, a 600-bus operation in Kingston, Jamaica, until it was nationalised by the Jamaican Government in 1974.

The popularity of the game spread like wild fire within a short time along the coast culminating in the formation of the first football club, EXCELSIOR in 1903 by Mr. Briton, a Jamaican born British, who was then Head Teacher of Philip Quaque Government Boys School in Cape Coast.

The Green Bay Massacre was a covert operation carried out by special forces of the Jamaican Government on 5 January 1978, in which 5 Jamaica Labour Party supporters were shot dead.

The growth of the town was given a substantial stimulus when the Alcan Bauxite Company in a joint venture with the Jamaican Government opened its Kirkvine works nearby at Williamsfield in 1957.

The beach itself was donated to the Jamaican Government by the author Robin Moore.

The Jamaican Government would provide the funds for the salaries of the teaching faculty and staff.

Historically, Jamaican emigration has been heavy.

For example, the only pinniped ever known to the Caribbean, the Caribbean monk seal once occurred in Jamaican waters and has now been driven to total extinction.

However, the Jamaican dollar has been slipping, despite intervention, resulting in an average exchange rate of J $ 73. 40 per US $ 1. 00 and J136. 2 per € 1. 00 ( February 2011 ).

Since the late 1990s, the Jamaican government has set an agenda to push the development of technology in Jamaica.

" Gosse's study specialized in birds, and Gosse has been called " the father of Jamaican ornithology.

The white supremacist ideology has become associated with a racist faction of the skinhead subculture, despite the fact that when the skinhead culture first developed in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s, it was heavily influenced by black fashions and music, especially Jamaican reggae and ska, and African American soul music By the 1980s, a sizeable and vocal white power skinhead faction had formed.

Recent linguistic research suggests that today, certain elements of Cockney English are declining in usage within the East End of London and the accent has migrated to Outer London and the Home Counties: in London's East End, some traditional features of Cockney have been displaced by a Jamaican Creole-influenced variety popular among young Londoners ( sometimes referred to as " Jafaican "), particularly, though far from exclusively, those of Afro-Caribbean descent.

Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

Toasting has been used in various African traditions, such as griots chanting over a drum beat, as well as in Jamaican music forms, such as dancehall, reggae, ska, dub, and lovers rock.

Jamaican bromeliads are home to Metopaulias depressus, a reddish-brown crab 2 cm ( 0. 75 inch ) across, which has evolved social behavior to protect its young from predation by Diceratobasis macrogaster, a species of damselfly whose larvae live in bromeliads.

The two team up with Charles ( Wright ), a Jamaican Chicago police officer who has been trailing Screwface for five years ( since 1985 ).

The choir draws its members from all three common rooms, and has performed for a wide variety of different guests, ranging from the Jamaican High Commissioner to many bishops and archbishops.

Jamaican Patois has no standardized spelling, and has only recently been taught in some schools.

Due to its roots in Jamaica and the deleterious effects alcohol has had on Jamaican society, many Rastafarians do not approve of alcohol consumption.

The spread of Rastafari into urban Jamaica in the 1960s transformed the Jamaican music scene, which incorporated drumming ( played at grounation ceremonies ) and which has led to today's popular music.

Many efforts at studying and copying Jamaican music has introduced the world to this new form of music as the copied styles are performed with accents linguistically and musically slanted to that of the home nation in which it is being studied, copied and performed.

John Corbett has suggested that dub could derive from duppie, a Jamaican patois word for ghost, as referenced by Burning Spear having named the dub version of his Marcus Garvey album Garvey's Ghost, and by Lee Perry stating that dub is " the ghost in me coming out ".

It has been the majority in the Jamaican Parliament between 1972 to 1980, from 1989 to September 2007 until the JLP won the general election and now, currently, as of the December 2011 general election.

The Jamaican Blackbird uses its bill to pry amongst tree bark and epiphytes, and has adopted the evolutionary niche filled elsewhere in the Neotropics by woodcreepers.

For example supermodel Naomi Campbell, who has African, Jamaican, and Asian roots.

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For many years, the Jamaican Constabulary Force has been noted for its extrajudicial killings.

The knight, green, bark, Jamaican giant, and Cuban brown anoles can all be found in the United States, primarily in Florida, although the most prevalent of these species by far is the Cuban brown anole, which has pushed the native green ( or " Carolina ") anole population farther north.