How To Use Jamaica In A Sentence

  • An odd hairy quadruped is upsetting residents of Scott Town, Jamaica, again. Archive 2008-06-01
  • This loveable rascal is probably best known for the Jamaican ska beat that is the signature of much of his song-writing.
  • The shell-shocked stowaway was discovered running around the immigration detention centre at Manchester Airport after a flight from Jamaica.
  • Colours Beyond Colours" opens with a Jamaican-sounding speaker ostensibly describing the supersensory effects of LSD, and then segueing into a cod-'60s-didactic announcement about the electromagnetic spectrum. PopMatters
  • The Jamaican may retain his farinaceous banana and the Malay his durian, but for us, it's the apple.
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  • Jamaica, a member of the British Commonwealth, has a bicameral parliamentary legislative system.
  • That 'lifeway' supplied our youth with a critique of Jamaican (and world) society and gave them some firm moral and personal orientations. Jamaica Gleaner Online
  • His great wealth came from Jamaican estates and he was frequently reminded, when tribune of the people, that he was a slave-owner.
  • A brief summary of the meeting's minutes are as follows: we're fairly confident that we've seen willets in the past and there's no way Sara is going to drive out to Jamaica Bay just to solidify a sandpiper sighting.
  • Fully plump, after indulging in a complete Jamaican breakfast on the plane: ackee, saltfish, coco-bread and plantain chips something I would definitely not recommend before doing on-camera work at a lingerie show, I landed in Kingston ready to "dutty wiiine" it up--or at least relax and make a quick stop at the delectable Manley Airport veggie juice bar for a healthy detox. Chie Davis: Kingston Lingerie and Swimwear Fashion Show
  • I'm sorry I missed the comment date on the jamaica/barbados articles, but the GDP increase of Jamaica was twice that of Barbados over the past year. Tyler Hits a Home Run, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Hip hop is a music that has been evolved out of the ghettoes of inner cities, whether it's in Jamaica or the United States.
  • As in Jamaica, it was necessary to train staff and to prepare a cadastral map.
  • Jamaica and Puerto Rico, immediate neighbors of the Caribs, were almost as fierce as the latter, and probably as anthropophagous. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • You can also tour the great house, have a Jamaican lunch of curry goat or ackee and salt fish, and take a swim in the pool.
  • While homophobia isn't new to pop, why would the Grammys celebrate someone who as recently as October used a slur in bragging to The Jamaica Observer about his war against gays? Grammys goofed up nominees in a few award categories
  • Sierra LeoneEnglish (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Languages
  • Because of the inhumane nature of slavery, slave revolts became commonplace in Jamaica.
  • The marijuana is allegedly grown in Jamaica. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the riots, one middle-aged Afro-Caribbean woman told a television crew: "This would never happen in Jamaica. Jamelia: Respect for single mothers!
  • Thursday gone, Christine Straw won the Miss Jamaica Universe 2004 title!
  • I felt that the Caribbean needed to support its Chinese people, she says, referring to the sizeable Chinese communities in Trinidad and Jamaica. BBC News - Home
  • If the courts decided that a slave was merely a modern-day villein, or serf, then his master might be legally entitled to transport him to Jamaica.
  • The spurious argument that Lewin was ineffective in stemming crime is so openly dishonest that Jamaicans like myself have started to tune out.
  • His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
  • Elsewhere Thomas Spooner, mercer and draper, wanted York people to know he ‘has at present by him a quantity of fine old Jamaica Rum’.
  • Jamaica looked as if it would avoid a direct hit as the storm tracked northeast, away from the island and closer to Haiti. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jamaica's lush interior is stunning, and the best way to see it is on a lazy river ride, being punted on your own personal bamboo raft.
  • Entry to the airport in Kingston, Jamaica, a very busy airport, is limited to passengers with tickets and to authorized employees.
  • But we in Jamaica call it tea, perhaps because it's serve steaming hot.
  • Straub spent more than a year living with Franciscan friars working in impoverished areas all over the world, including India, Jamaica, and the United States.
  • When a Jamaican family moves in next door and build a cricket net in the back garden, David is thrilled.
  • Wayside food is typical of the Caribbean; callaloo is to Trinidad what jerk chicken is to Jamaica, flying fish to Barbados and casareep to Guyana.
  • In Jamaica, we speak English primarily but more often we speak the local dialect, patois.
  • Bolt became an even bigger favorite to defend his title in Daegu, South Korea, this weekend when fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell withdrew from the marquee event with a groin injury. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • * These Jamaican/Somali young men and boys are all ripe cannon fodder for recruitment by the Turkish heroin barons and Vetnamese cannabis barons, who make most of the money from illegal drugs whilst sitting, usually untouchable, in the background. British Racists Must Be Condemned
  • It's jamaican music why its a big hype that kartel clarks and gyptian hold yuh is playing on hot 97 in NY, the hype should be that its playing on Jamaica radios, who cares who if any radio station in the worl play reggae music other than jamaica radios. Jammin Reggae Archives
  • Bolt brings light as dope scandal blights Jamaican athletics funds outplod the hares * Best equity income funds easily beat S&P 500 over decade * WN.com - Business News
  • Now the governments of the UK and Jamaica are spending £2m on a crackdown on cocaine smuggling.
  • The timekeepers were unable to separate the world record holder and the Jamaican, after the pair crossed the line shoulder-to-shoulder in 7.58s.
  • Bananas and sugar are the staples of Jamaica.
  • He recently curated a critically successful show of Jamaican self-taught artists.
  • She believes that teens in the rural Jamaica can help the industry by reading the newspapers and being aware of what is going on.
  • From fiery jerk dishes to sublimely sweet mangoes, the foods of Jamaica are exciting and comforting.
  • Prophets is a book-length poem with an ambitiously epic scope, a sensibility and language that is rooted in Jamaica and a work with a markedly religious overtone — not doctrinaire or even ideological, but openly exploring the day-to-day implications of Pentecostalism in Jamaica through a language that is sensual, that invokes myth and reggae and that is best described as risky and experimental. Poetry Terrors : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • The Jamaican may retain his farinaceous banana and the Malay his durian, but for us, it's the apple.
  • I stayed in the cheapest place available in all of jamaica, it's called the scotia guesthouse and cost 600 jamaican dollars, the rate was welcome after staying in expensive kingston for 10 days. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Among those living there were Rastafarians, part of a messianic movement originating in Jamaica in 1930 and springing up in response to the coronation of Crown Prince Ras Tafari, as Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Raised a Rastafarian, Papa San now adheres to a new faith
  • Jamaica is a very cosmopolitan island.
  • Jamaica looked as if it would avoid a direct hit as the storm tracked northeast, away from the island and closer to Haiti. Times, Sunday Times
  • Adams, the 33-year-old Jamaican batsman, deserved better than this undignified end to his reign.
  • M.I.A. Hip-hop electro, Jamaican dancehall, Brazilian baile funk, South Asian bhangra — Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., draws on all of them in sparse, noisy, low-fi groove tracks that sound like they come from some imagined third world street. CMJ Music Marathon - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
  • In Jamaican Creole, tone is lexical in a few minimal pairs.
  • I particularly remember a poem which was very derivative of English poetry called ‘Fugue’ by Neville Dawes, a Jamaican novelist and poet.
  • Strange as it may seem, Birmingham has become one of the most important cities for reggae outside Jamaica.
  • The gardens are fully of all the Jamaican local favorites, including fruit trees such as banana, sweetsop, mangos and much more.
  • Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians Sierra Leone
  • You can also get your saltfish with ackee, a combo that's often referred to as Jamaica's national dish.
  • A night on the town fuses American hip hop with extraordinarily loud reggae and Jamaican dancehall. The Sun
  • I learned from my co-author of my second cookbook out in October through Lake Isle Press that Jamaicans call it sorrel and combine it with other herbs, roots, spices and cane sugar to make a delicious beverage. Jill Donenfeld: Hibiscus: One Lovely Flower, Thousands of Fascinating Uses
  • -- Down that alley was where the Brickhall Three were done over by the police and then fitted up, verballed, framed; up that side-street he'd find the scene of the murder of the Jamaican, The Satanic Verses
  • Light, comfortable, and cool clothing is a must for carnival in Jamaica.
  • Noël, an observant neighbour in Jamaica, found her garrulous, snobbish and socially aggressive, while success had embittered him.
  • Nanny was the greatest of the generals of the Maroons, runaway slaves who forged a society and an identity in the weedy-thick hill country of the Jamaican hinterland.
  • Appleton Special Jamaica rum is also a light straw color, and has a lovely, delicate nose. Sweet Home Louisiana
  • Many of his imports - including hibiscus, azalea, cassia, magnolia, oleander, croton and jasmine - permanently altered the Jamaican scene.
  • Bill Geist has the lowdown on the team of New Yorkers who are a kind of pachydermal equivalent of the Jamaican bobsled team. Entertainment News: CBSNews.com
  • `I see you're admiring Mr Schrader's mountain," the man in the diamanté suit said in a distinctive Jamaican accent. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
  • He arrived in Britain from Jamaica in 1997 and later settled in Kimberley Place, Harehills, Leeds.
  • The film of the July Handicap will be seen by stipendiary stewards today and an inquiry held into the fall of a jockey from Jamaican Music.
  • A "duppy" in Jamaican folklore is a spirit creature, usually with bad intent. Archive 2007-02-01
  • A medium with chile is my choice, plus a soft drink or agua de jamaica. Good Places to Eat
  • Jamaica's lush interior is stunning, and the best way to see it is on a lazy river ride, being punted on your own personal bamboo raft.
  • How long ago that Test win in Jamaica now feels. Times, Sunday Times
  • His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
  • Whenever, I visit Jamaica I like to experience the best of two worlds, the commercial tourist sights and old familiar places.
  • Take a little alegar or white wine vinegar, and put to it two or three blades of mace, with a little whole pepper and Jamaica pepper, a few bay leaves and salt, put to your buds, and scald them two or three times, then they are fit for use. English Housewifery
  • Here is the new video from the international collective Playing For Change, "Groove in G," featuring a pulsating bed of Indian, African, Jamaican and Brazilian percussion colored by subtle accents from sitar, veena and sarod. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Playing For Change's "Groove In G," Plus A Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman
  • Given that a Jamaican won gold anyway, that was unlikely to happen. Times, Sunday Times
  • He captures the Jamaican dialect in this early verse and valorizes the speech patterns of the working class.
  • What is less well known is that English is also the mother tongue in countries such as the Republic of Ireland (officially called Eire), Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana.
  • Jamaica's bobsleigh team may have to ask their rivals to lend them equipment after their luggage was lost in transit to Russia. Times, Sunday Times
  • From Street Tech: "This guy, Ravi Jain, is shooting a weekly video blog from the driver's seat of his car during his daily commutes between Jamaica Plains and Allston, MA (or five hours of" studio time, "as he puts it). - Boing Boing
  • Kalahari Moon of St Nicholas market will be supplying traditional South African treats such as chakalaka and Boerewors, where as Afro Delight and Glens (two well loved St Paul's eateries) will be supplying Jamaican grub Indymedia Ireland
  • My dad's Jamaican so he made a lot of Jamaican food, and my mum did lots of traditional shepherd's pies and homemade quiches, but I was brought up on some really minging things as well – my mum gave me liquidised tripe when I was a baby. Jessica Ennis: 'I'm so hungry by the end of a heptathlon that I just want to indulge'
  • The article was written by Chester Francis-Jackson, a writer for the Jamaica Gleaner who covers all events such as these, or events put on by the very rich, most well known socialites in Jamaican society.
  • Traditional rulers have been urged to enlighten and educate their subjects against involvement in vices such as cultism, insurance scheme for Jamaican coffee farmers, whose fields have been without coverage for more than five years after WN.com - Articles related to We need to realise Africa's potential on agriculture
  • And sometime between 1834 and 1838 several Germans make their way to Jamaica to work to support Jamaica's failing plantocracy.
  • They kept their connections with Jamaica active by frequent visits to the island. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jamaica is trying hard to position itself as the new place in the sun. The Sun
  • What I'm trying to eradicate out of the Jamaica team and the West Indies team is people hiding behind people and playing in people's shadow and marvelling in a next one's success.
  • Jamaican rum
  • The political opposition has also criticized the government for putting Jamaica into what it calls a standoff over Coke, who is known for his loyalty to the Jamaica Labor Party. The Shad Plank
  • M'Callum's, in which there was no bed-covering but the skins of wild beasts; during the contest the major was killed; but after it was over, the colonel retired to Jamaica, with much wealth, acquired by depredation. A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade
  • Playing the twitchy bantamweight to Sean P. 's hulking heavyweight, Buckshot bounced onto the stage almost three hours in and powered through Black Moon standards "Buck 'Em Down" and "I Got Cha Opin," then set off the night's second mosh pit with the whole Boot Camp performing the Jamaican dance hall-influenced smash "Sound Bwoy Bureill. Music review: Boot Camp Clik at Liv
  • The following week the 'Queen Elizabeth' set sail for Jamaica.
  • The streets were lined with jerk chicken barbecues, goat curry stands and Jamaican ackee and saltfish sellers.
  • A scattering of Arawak Indian villages once surrounded Jamaica’s second largest and most visited city, but now high-rise hotels and restaurants dominate the coastal landscape.
  • In contrast to British music's narrow mindset, Jamaica has always embraced the most outlandish musical idiosyncrasies imaginable.
  • Jamaica, and Cuba, inhaled the gales wafted from the orangeries; but not for a moment would I compare either with the exquisite aromatic odors from a coffee plantation in full blow, when the hill-side -- covered over with regular rows of the tree-like shrub, with their millions of jessamine-like flowers -- showers down upon you, as you ride up between the plants, a perfume of the most delicately delicious description. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Jamaica to be closer to the music and the home of rastafari culture. All articles at Blogcritics
  • A reader writes to question this column's depiction of the secret attempt by Bronx Captain Brandon del Pozo to explore a settlement with whistleblower cop Schoolcraft by offering him a cushy job and the ability to testify against two top-ranking police officials after police dragged him from his apartment to Jamaica Hospital's psychiatric ward, where he was held for six days. Len Levitt: Police Crime Reporting Scandal: Now the 66th Precinct?
  • Among the more exotic fruits popular in Jamaica are guineps, pawpaw, sweetsops and the star apple.
  • Chinese ginger tends to be mainly pungent; South Indian and Australian gingers have a notable quantity of citral and so a more distinctly lemony aroma; Jamaican ginger is delicate and sweet, African ginger penetrating. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • Many of his imports - including hibiscus, azalea, cassia, magnolia, oleander, croton and jasmine - permanently altered the Jamaican scene.
  • You can also get your saltfish with ackee, a combo that's often referred to as Jamaica's national dish.
  • The calypso, reggae, and steel band music of Trinidad and Jamaica are also very popular.
  • Perhaps you would consider providing a gift towards our Jamaican outreach.
  • Jamaica's U - 19 cricketers are off to Kami's home turf to win both titles in the regional competition.
  • The standard set-up of two turntables and a microphone goes back to Jamaica sound systems and was imported to the Bronx by Kool DJ Herc in 1973.
  • The national dish in Jamaica is ackee and saltfish, but curried goat and rice, and fried fish and barnrny (a flat, baked cassava bread) are just as popular and delicious.
  • We also see the Jamaica that the tourist rarely encounters: slum dwellers watch themselves on news footage of riots, political violence and industrial unrest.
  • A Jamaican steel band and reggae entertainment are set to liven up the party at BBC WM and special guests can sample traditional food and drink.
  • It raining plenty back in Jamaica, so much so that even hail was dropping from the sky!
  • Bixa orellana (Annatto) is a native of Central and tropical South America. The tree has been widely introduced throughout the tropics as an ornamental or for its dyestuffs, and has become naturalised in many countries, including Jamaica.
  • On "Dakar-Kingston," N'Dour builds the musical bridge that links Senegal and Jamaica's capitals. Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music
  • They'd paved parish driveways in Costa Rica and repaired clinic roofs in Jamaica.
  • Although some angry citizens boycott U.S. products, the U.S. has made it too expensive for the everyday Jamaican consumer.
  • In a March 2003 interview, he did not say exactly when a bill will reach Parliament, but stressed that decriminalizing marijuana - called ganja in Jamaica - will be within a limited scope.
  • The idyll is very short lived, however, and paradise is lost when Inkle returns with Yarico to Jamaica where he attempts to sell her into slavery. Savage Boundaries
  • Meanwhile, frustrations over violence and insecurity have been manipulated in such a way that a majority of Jamaicans supports hard-line policing and punishment (including the reactivation of capital punishment).
  • Irrigation during the dry season and once during ripening will increase the size of Jamaican sweetsop.
  • He found that the long delay in carrying out the execution was enough to quash the Jamaican court 's verdicts. Times, Sunday Times
  • The latter is the single, Sexiest Man in Jamaica, a zippy bit of fun in which Prince Buster rustily declaims his sexiness over an orchestral victory march.
  • -- The logwood of commerce is the red heart wood, or duramen, of a fine lofty growing tree (_Haematroxylon Campechianum_), growing in Campeachy and the bay of Honduras, and which is also now common in the woods of Jamaica and St. Domingo. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • We're a bit like the Jamaican bobsleigh team. The Sun
  • Not all great Jamaican music is serious, and this infectious 70s hit is ribald reggae at its finest.
  • In Michoacan, a piece of beet is often added instead of jamaica to color the punch. Holiday punch: Ponche navideño
  • Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Sierra Leone
  • The supercargo was the brother of the Mr. S----, whose death in Jamaica the reader will not have forgotten, and he gave me a hearty welcome. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
  • Noel was going to come, but he had to fly back to Jamaica to escape the tax people. POLITICAL SUICIDE
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  • Lewis stopped off in Jamaica before flying on to Toronto.
  • All truth be told, despite the fact that we may quarrel about the hardships about living here in Jamaica, I know that I could be far worse off.
  • How long ago that Test win in Jamaica now feels. Times, Sunday Times
  • They kept their connections with Jamaica active by frequent visits to the island. Times, Sunday Times
  • We can go on to by-products of petroleum such as plastics and with gas as fuel we can do aluminium products with bauxite from Guyana and Jamaica.
  • Jamaican reggae music is quite distinct from North American jazz or blues.
  • Hall, not being versed in finance and not wanting to let his pastoral calling interfere with WICB's future, sent Banks to Jamaica to be briefed by Rousseau. CaribbeanCricket.com
  • Webber traveled from London to Jamaica where he was "lionized" by the members of the Legislature. Undefined
  • Jamaican cooks have rediscovered their native tangy fruits, including ackee (the reddish-yellow fruit of an evergreen tree), carambola, and ortanique (a cross between an orange and a tangerine).
  • Bog Walk Gorge is a special place indeed, full of memories for me and doubtless for many other Jamaicans.
  • On the shores of the Hebrides, we collect seeds of Mimosa scandens, of Dolichos urens, of Guilandina bonduc, and several other plants of Jamaica, the isle of Cuba, and of the neighbouring continent. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • Figure three this named "the heroic 'link ' poly a hall" the picture photography on August 16, Jamaican contestant Boulter pushes to the front in the men's 100 meters finals.
  • The 12-year-old from Kingston, Jamaica, showed no mercy in demolishing words like "" daedal '' (intricate) and "" parrhesia '' (frank speech). A Daedal Test Of Parrhesia
  • Not shown because it has not been decided where they should go but also purchased while traveling are Cuphea cyanea ‘Jamaica Sun’, Persicaria capitata, and firecracker plant, Russelia equisetiformis. Cherry Mash-Mish Monday « Fairegarden
  • The cormus is said to be stomachic and tonic; see Browne's Jamaica. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Noel Coward, the multi-talented British playwright, actor, songwriter raconteur, first visited Jamaica in 1944 on a two week holiday.
  • Wittingham, a tall, Jamaican-born man with a heartbreaker's good looks and what appears to be a genuinely sincere demeanor, has even brought his own 10-year-old daughter to the event.
  • In successfully arguing Cunningham's case for asylum, Weinberg also said Jamaica's sodomy laws banning sex between men and "dancehall" music - whose lyrics often advocate violence against gays - made life for Cunningham unbearable. Undefined
  • Can distinctly recollect heated correspondence in Time and Tide regarding vraisemblance or otherwise of Jamaica children, and now range myself, decidedly and forever, on the side of the author. A Different Stripe:
  • As a family, we had lots of time to sit and chat and laugh without having to worry about how much moolah we were going to have to spend to pay the telephone bill between Canada and Jamaica.
  • Then there are the names that dictate one's chosen profession: Arsène Wenger's name surely explains his inexplicable devotion to Arsenal, while the recently captured Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke is absolutely my drug dealer du choix. What could be better than the man who once pocketed a £21m bonus being called Diamond?
  • Jamaican rice and peas, Spanish paella and Creole jambalaya are foods for feasting.
  • Dame Helen Mirren, scared that another Oscar might make her husband run away, will redub her performance in The Tempest so that Prospera shouts everything in an inexplicably high-pitched Jamaican accent. ‘Bombshell’ McGee Sorry For Banging Sandra Bullock’s Chap
  • The train got into Jamaica right on time, and it terminated on Track 2.
  • You see, the Governer of Jamaica lived just up the road at King's House, and his wife, a white woman from England, took umbrage at this impudence.
  • Skinheads = f**kheads unless you're talking about the original bluebeat / ska crowd, which consisted of black Jamaicans and white working-class UK kids both. Toytown Germany - Germany feed
  • I think this is another attempt by the government and their friends who are contractors to milk the Jamaican worker out of every last penny of their hard-earned money.
  • He has gone into hiding and a peculiarly Jamaican chaos has erupted as everyone - police, local yardies and hoods from afar - are after him, trying to track him down.
  • There may be those who would study the Jamaican Constitution, what there is of it, in the sun, while they might, if they could, read Dante in the shade, and the necrologist in question may be one of them. The Life of Froude
  • At its simple best, Caribbean cuisine can be excellent: try conch chowder in the Bahamas, salt fish and ackee in Jamaica, fried plantain and barbecued shrimp just about anywhere.
  • MREs to avoid (since y'all have a choice): Jamaican Pork Chop, Beef Frankfurters (Five Fingers of Death), Country Captain Chicken (WTF?), and any of the gawdawful "vegetarian" choices. You're hunting elk in Montana. You have room for 1 meal in your pack. MRE or store-bought dehydrated meal?
  • A powerful tidal wave struck Jamaica, killing 2000.
  • A night on the town fuses American hip hop with extraordinarily loud reggae and Jamaican dancehall. The Sun
  • The tough policy is symptomatic of a new war on Jamaican Yardies that is being waged by police, as revealed by the Yorkshire Post last Saturday.
  • The hurricane has claimed 65 lives with winds gusting up to 155 mph but Jamaica missed the worst of it.
  • The Creoles, the black people of the Caribbean region, are the descendants of colonial-era slaves, Jamaican merchants, and West Indian laborers.
  • There is also plenty of tropical fruits such as bananas, pineapples, coconuts and the less popular outside Jamaica: pawpaws, guineps and sweetsops.
  • In this wonderful Cuban-Jamaican take on the genre, you will hear reggae, salsa, Brazilian ritualistic music, Klezmer-style sax, big band brass and little bits of cumbia and son rhythms too.
  • A High Wind in Jamaica is not part of the sale, but Andrew Sean Greer thinks you must read it anyway, listen to the story on NPR here. Catch-all for 8.4.09
  • Jamaicans have greeted this news with mixed feelings.
  • He is finally supported by the poor, the disenfranchised, all black people who will vouch for this old white man, descendant of the plantocracy of Jamaica. Calabash, The Third Day : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • The stemware was a gift from his great-grandmother in Jamaica. Platinum
  • He became Jamaica's first Olympic gold medallist when he won the 400m title in 1948.
  • Both groups blend a North American jazz frontline trumpet and tenor, here Ron Blake and Marcus Printup with rhythms from Jamaica and Trinidad, such as mento, calypso, ska and reggae. The Jazz Scene: Hot Tones, Francophones
  • Today, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico - collectively known as the Greater Antilles - are home to more than 100 Anolis species, ranging from lanky lizards that perch in bushes, to stocky, long-legged lizards that live on tree trunks, to foot-long 'giants' that roam the upper branches of trees. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • At Colombia's big outdoor soundsystem parties such as Skorpion Disco Show, which echo the bass culture of Jamaica, DJs including Los Reyes Del Perreo bosh out rampant, high-powered, champeta fusions featuring ultra cheddary trance riffs, cheap drum machines and bargain-bin Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • For example, in Jamaican Creole the palatalization of /k/ and /g/ as in /kyar/ ‘car’ and /gwain/ ‘going’ were customary in some of the varieties of British English transported to Jamaica in the eighteenth century.
  • Jamaica's bobsleigh team may have to ask their rivals to lend them equipment after their luggage was lost in transit to Russia. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think TR is hitting us with a trick question as Jamaica Bay has a resident population of blues (and stripers for that matter) so the fishing can be epic all year long .... Free Sunglasses - Name the Spot
  • We catch a glimpse of it when we are in a Jamaican taxi and the driver careen the corner missing the incoming trailer by several inches.
  • Interestingly, I have thought about where I would go for my honeymoon, and when that time of nuptial bliss comes along, I have always thought I would make it Jamaica.
  • Tourism brings in 25 percent of Jamaica's gross national product, but it has also taken an environmental toll.
  • The venerable Jolly Boys, often tagged as the Jamaican Buena Vista Social Club, have devoted their long careers to keeping mento alive and vibrant with their bongos, banjos and kalimba.
  • Take a little alegar, (the quantity must be equal to the quantity of your cucumbers, and so must your seasoning) a little pepper, a little Jamaica and long pepper, two or three shalots, a little horse-radish scraped or sliced, and little salt and a bit of allum, boil them altogether, and scald your cucumbers two or three times with your pickle, so tie them up for use. English Housewifery
  • He is the son of a Jamaican father and German mother who bought him a camper van to slog around the backblocks of the lower-level European circuit for four years. Dustin Brown hopes to make Jamaica's loss Britain's gain
  • Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians Ethnic groups
  • The sprinter is training in Jamaica as he awaits the outcome of the arbitration hearing that could overturn his lifetime Olympic ban. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Republicans balancing a budget is about as likely as Jamaica dominating the future of world curling. Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership
  • Trips to refuges like Montezuma or Jamaica Bay are revelatory, but ultimately, we're trespassers, traipsing callously through the beasts' lairs.
  • In Jamaica there is the toun (town) and the conchri (country). Country Life
  • October 31, 1944 - The saddlecloth numbers of the first five race winners at Jamaica racetrack in New York corresponded to the number of the race in which each horse started.
  • The 1970's Jamaican DJ toaster URoy accompanies Toots on track 11, Never Grow Old.
  • Caribbean island -- such as St. Lucia or Jamaica -- covers 100 percent of the island's territory and can destroy everything. Fidel Castro Varadero News Conference
  • If you look at the size of Jamaica in comparison to this radar image showing Hurricane Dean, you can see that the island nation is bracing for a serious storm.
  • The Princess Royal arrived at Gatwick this morning from Jamaica.
  • Desserts are also funky, featuring items like Jamaican mousse, a fluffy mixture of chocolate and rum and something called coco quemado, a coconut milk pudding.
  • Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood
  • The airline's resources had been stretched to breaking point as it used its aircraft to evacuate passengers from Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

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