GEOGRAPHY Jamaica is the largest English-speaking Caribbean island, and the third largest in the region. Jamaica’s 4,411 square miles of terrain boasts towering mountain ranges, expanses of lush vegetation as well as long stretches of clear, sandy beaches. The island is divided into three counties – Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey – which are subdivided into […]
Mento Mento is the original popular music form in Jamaica, developing during the plantation period and holding sway up to the 1950s. It was born out of the fusion of African and British influences. Its performance mode, rhythmic impulse, as well as its call and response type of singing are African in origin, while the […]
Jamaica became an independent nation on August 6, 1962. Jamaica is a parliamentary democracy, based in a system of representative and responsible government. The form of government is that of a constitutional monarchy. Jamaica is a unitary state and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The Constitution under which Jamaica assumed Independence in 1962 […]