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• Capital City: Kingston• Population: 2,889,187 (July 2012 Estimate)• Average Temperature: 82 F• Languages: English & Patois• Government: Parliamentary Democracy & Constitutional Monarchy
• Black – 90.9%• Mixed - 7.3%• East Indian – 1.3%• White – 0.2%• Chinese – 0.2%
Black stands for hardships overcome and to be faced.
Gold stands for natural wealth and beauty of sunlight.
Green stands for hope and agricultural resources.
Bauxite and alumina, apparel, sugar, banana, citrus, rum and cocoa.
“Out of Many, One People”
“Jamaica, Land We Love”
•Fruit: Ackee•Tree: Blue Mahoe•Flower: Lignum Vitae•Bird: Red-billed Streamertail (Doctor Bird)
Athletic Sprinter
Reggae Musician
That Port Royal in Jamaica was once labeled “The
Wickedest City on Earth?!
Reggae DJ
Businessman
That Jamaica was the first country in the Western World
to construct a railway?!
Model
President & CEO of Island Records And Palm Pictures, NYC
Jamaica is the 3rd most country to win Miss World Titles?!
Writer
Record Breaking Test Cricketer
Jamaican 200 Meter Gold Medalist
Jamaican-Born Canadian World
Champion Sprinter
Jamaica has more multiple live births than anywhere else in the
world?!
Former Prime Minister
Artist&
Sculptor
Poet
Reggae Musician
The Manchester Gold Club in Jamaica, established in
1868, is the oldest in the western world!
Winner of the Scripps NationalSpelling Bee Competition
World Champion Sprinter
World Champion Boxer
Poet
In 2006-2007, the world’s fastest man and woman in the world were Jamaicans?!
(Asafa Powell & Sherone Simpson)
Political Activist
JamaicanSprinter
FormerMinister
Chairman & CEO of AIC Ltd. &Chairman of NCB Jamaican
Jamaica was the first tropical country to enter the IOC
Winter Olympics?!
Champion Boxer
FormerPrime Minister
It was a Jamaican slave that started the riots which saw Haiti becoming the first independent
black nation?!
Jamaica-Born American
Former NBA Player
Prime Minister
Marcus Garvey helped to spare head the civil rights movement in
America?!
Reggae Singer
Reggae Singer & Songwriter
International Cricket Umpire
Athletic Sprinter
Model Jamaican by Parents
American PoliticianJamaican by Parents
RapperJamaican by Parents
R&B SingerJamaican by Parents
Fashion ModelJamaican by Parents
Actress, Singer, ActivistJamaican by Parents