| The original Arawak or Taino people from
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| | vanished following a change in Government
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| South America first settled on the island
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| | in 1972. Jamaica lagged economically with
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| between 1000 and 400 BC. Although some
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| | its gross national product falling in
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| claim they became virtually extinct
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| | 1980 to some twenty-five percent below
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| following contact with Europeans, others
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| | the level previously obtained in 1972.
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| claim that some survived. Whatever the
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| | Rising foreign and local debt accompanied
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| case the culture of the Arawaks are
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| | by large fiscal deficits resulted in the
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| deeply evident and rooted in the food
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| | invitation of the International Monetary
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| they eat, some of the words used in the
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| | Fund (IMF) financing from the USA and
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| dialects, the cultural medicine they
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| | others, and the imposition of IMF
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| practise and the art culture which
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| | austerity measures (with a greater than
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| remained and is now housed at the British
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| | 25% interest rate per year).
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| Museums.
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| | Economic deterioration continued into the
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| Jamaica was claimed for Spain after
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| | early to the mid 1980s,(in a safe but
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| Christopher Columbus first landed there
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| | financially struggling country)
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| in 1494. Columbus used it as his family's
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| | exacerbated by the closure of the first
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| private estate. The British Admiral
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| | (Alpart) and third (Alcoa) largest
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| William Penn (father of William Penn of
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| | aluminium producers, significant
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| Pennsylvania) and General Venables seized
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| | reduction in production by the second
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| the island in 1655. During its first 200
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| | largest (Alcan), the exit of Reynolds
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| years of British rule, post Spanish rule,
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| | Jamaica Mines Ltd from the Jamaican
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| Jamaica became one of the world's leading
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| | industry and reduced flows from tourism.
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| sugar exporting nations and produced over
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| | During the 1980's Jamaica was still a
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| 77,000 tons of sugar annually between
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| | prosperous country and HIV free. [The
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| 1820 and 1824, which was achieved through
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| | exchange rate was still approximately 8
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| the massive use of imported African slave
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| | USA dollars to 1 Jamaican dollar.] It
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| labour. When this wasn't enough the
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| | would be tourism in the 1980's that would
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| British imported Indian and Chinese
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| | introduce HIV into Jamaica (information
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| indentured servants in the early 1800s
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| | can be found in the countries health
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| that remained in Jamaica from then until
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| | archives) and its surrounding
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| present day. Over it's 300 years of
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| | "super-powers" that would plunge the
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| slavery the majority of the population is
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| | country into deterioration further. While
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| visible African in features while having
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| | increased disease was being brought in
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| some Euro-Asiatic, Afro-Middle Eastern
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| | and the wealthy were leaving Jamaica,
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| and Native Indian roots and features, but
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| | this period also brought growth in the
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| undoubtedly a unique culture combining
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| | garment and tourism sectors (through
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| all of its slave and indentured
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| | American sweatshop labor and sex tourism)
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| population.
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| | restoring growth averaging about four
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| By the beginning of the 19th century, the
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| | percent per year in the last half of the
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| United Kingdom's heavy reliance on
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| | decade. Simultaneously its food economy
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| slavery resulted in blacks outnumbering
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| | was suffering as the US interrupted the
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| whites by a ratio of almost 20 to one,
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| | monopoly of banana trade help the UK, yet
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| leading to constant threat of revolt.
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| | pulling out of its purchasing power after
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| Following a series of rebellions, slavery
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| | interruption leaving the once
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| was formally abolished in 1834, with full
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| | agricultural nation in more financial
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| emancipation from chattel slavery
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| | strain.
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| declared in 1838.
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| | Today there is an influx of Colombians
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| In 1945, Sir Horace Hector Hearne became
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| | into Jamaica bringing increased cocaine
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| Chief Justice and Keeper of the Records
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| | smuggling. U.S. deportation of
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| in Jamaica and sat in the Supreme Court,
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| | American-raised Jamaicans who commit
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| Kingston between 1945 and 1950/1951,
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| | crimes in America has lead to increased
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| going on to become Chief Justice in
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| | violence in Jamaica and increase rise in
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| Kenya.
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| | gangs. The ultimate result of this cycle
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| Jamaica slowly gained increasing
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| | of violence, drugs and poverty has been
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| independence from the United Kingdom. In
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| | the brutal gun warfare seen on Kingston's
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| 1958, it became a province in the
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| | streets from the mid-1990s onwards. Since
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| Federation of the West Indies, a
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| | the 1990's Jamaica has had a reputation
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| federation among all of the British West
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| | of being dangerous but there are places
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| Indies. Jamaica attained full
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| | in the island that remain safe,
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| independence by leaving the federation in
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| | unpolluted, and until now tourist free.
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| 1962.
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| | The former capital of Jamaica was Spanish
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| Strong economic growth averaging about
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| | Town in the parish of St. Catherine, the
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| six percent per annum marked its first
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| | site of the old Spanish colonial capital.
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| ten years of independence under
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| | The Spanish named the town Santiago de la
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| conservative governments led successively
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| | Vega. In 1655 when the British captured
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| by Prime Ministers Alexander Bustamante,
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| | the island, much of the old Spanish
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| Donald Sangster and Hugh Shearer. The
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| | capital was burned by the invading
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| growth was fuelled by strong investments
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| | British troops. The town was rebuilt by
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| in bauxite/alumina, tourism,
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| | the British and renamed Spanish Town. It
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| manufacturing industry and to a lesser
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| | remained the capital until 1872, when the
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| extent the agricultural sector. However,
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| | city of Kingston was named capital under
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| the initial optimism of the first decade
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| | questionable circumstances.
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