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	HISTORY OF JAMAICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jamaica was made a crown colony, thus losing the large degree of self-government it had enjoyed since the late 17th century.
		Jamaica was one of the British colonies that, on January 3, 1958, were united in the Federation of the West Indies.
		The prime minister is the leader of the majority party and is appointed from the House of Representatives by the governor-general.
	www.jamaicajuniorchamber.com /Culture.htm (924 words)

	History of Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To the Spaniards Jamaica is also indebted for the orange, lemon, lime, and other fruit trees; the coffee tree is due however to British initiative about the year 1721.
		Jamaica was ceded to England by the treaty of Madrid in 1670.
		The law emancipating the slaves passed by the British Parliament was accepted by the Jamaica Assembly in 1833 under strong protests, and on 1 August, 1834, slavery was abolished in the island.
	www.historyofnations.net /northamerica/jamaica.html (1715 words)

	Ganja in Jamaica News - 2000/03/10 - Jamaica Gleaner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the WPJ, he said the party made a big contribution to social reform, for example the Maternity Leave Law and the raising of the consciousness of the Jamaican people.
		And as to whether the ruling People's National Party was "drunk with power and not responding to the call for astute leadership", the professor said the administration had good intentions but needed to "practice what it preaches".
		The University and Allied Workers' Union president said he was in favour of trade unions being more independent of political parties, and readers may be surprised to know that he represents a constituency -- the constituency of Independents.
	www.rism.org /isg/dlp/ganja/news/gj_jg_20000310_1.html (621 words)

	Background Notes: Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jamaica was discovered in 1494 by Christopher Columbus and settled by the Spanish during the early 16th century.
		Jamaica's first election with adult suffrage was held in 1944, and the JLP formed the first government.
		Jamaica has made an impressive recovery, and the economy appears to be back on a growth track.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/bgnotes/wha/jamaica9002.html (2462 words)

	Jamaica travel guide - Wikitravel
		Jamaica is an island-nation in the Caribbean, located to the south of Cuba and to the west of the island of Hispaniola
		Jamaica, which was originally claimed for Spain in 1494, has a history that has been greatly affected by slavery and the slave trade.
		Jamaica for almost two centuries was the world's largest sugar exporter, which was achieved through the use of imported slave labour, resulting in the very large Black population on the island.
	wikitravel.org /en/Jamaica (2316 words)

	Jamaica - Political Dynamics
		The WPJ's relations with Cuba were strained in the mid-1980s became of WPJ criticism of Cuba's perceived failure to back the Bernard Coard-Hudson Austin regime in Grenada that overthrew and assassinated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (see Political Dynamics, this ch.).
		The Cuban Communist Party and WPJ repaired relations, however, and Munroe attended the Third Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana in early February 1986.
		According to a December 1983 Stone Poll, 86 percent of the JLP was in favor of the intervention and 60 percent of the PNP, opposed).
	countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/35.htm (4261 words)

	Jamaica (12/06)
		Jamaica has diplomatic relations with most nations and is a member of the United Nations and the Organization of American States.
		Jamaica is an active member of the British Commonwealth, the Non-Aligned Movement, the G-15, and the G-77.
		Jamaica is a beneficiary of the Cotonou Conventions, through which the European Union (EU) grants trade preferences to selected states in Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2032.htm (2788 words)

	Jamaica Attractions
		Jamaica also has a number of vocational and technical schools, teacher-training colleges, and a college of arts, science, and technology.
		Kingston (Jamaica), largest city, capital, and chief seaport of Jamaica, on a deep harbor on the southeastern coast of the Caribbean island, at the foot of the lushly vegetated Blue Mountains.
		Montego Bay, city in northwestern Jamaica, administrative center of Saint James Parish, Cornwall County, on Montego Bay at the mouth of the Montego River, on the northwestern coast.
	www.ahigler.com /jamaica_attr.htm (2461 words)

	ELECTORAL OFFICE OF JAMAICA
		The mission of the Electoral Office of Jamaica is to so conduct national elections that no unfair advantage is given to any party or individual contesting the polls, ensuring that the objective of one man one vote is met under the six stated principles of Universal Adult Sufrage.
		All citizens who meet the qualifications established by law have the right to vote.
		Jamaica is currently divided into sixty (60) constituencies for the purpose of electing members of parliament.
	www.eoj.com.jm (130 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - 1970'S FLASHBACK - The media and Michael Manley - Tuesday \| May 30, 2006
		At the time of his ascension, there were four recognised outlets in mainstream media: the privately-owned Gleaner and Radio Jamaica; the state-owned Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) which operated a television and radio station and The Daily News, a tabloid that was primarily owned by persons close to the Government.
		This triggered alarm signals among Jamaica's middle class who saw the NYS as a communist-type operation in which the state dictated the future of their children.
		The station which had been described by the JLP as the Government's propaganda unit was a target for house-cleaning when that party came to power in late 1980.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060530/news/news7.html (875 words)

	Elean Thomas \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Elean was born in St Catherine, Jamaica, "the result of the union," she said, "between a quiet, dignified, brave working-class woman and a boppish, dashing middle-class preacherman".
		She served on the executive of the Press Association of Jamaica, and was a founder-member of the Workers party of Jamaica (WPJ), a Marxist grouping initiated by the respected academic Trevor Munroe, who regarded Elean as one of the outstanding figures of her generation.
		Back in Jamaica, she was pivotal in the campaign against the 1983 US invasion of Grenada.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1273286,00.html (532 words)

	Third party blues - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Frankly, though, those alternative parties need to realise that it is not sufficient to capitalise and rely solely on the discontentment in the society.
		For any alternative party outside of the PNP and JLP to succeed at the polls then it must first of all have credibility (capable of being believed, effective, reliable) as well as be creditable (deserving credit, esteem).
		It is perhaps safe to say that in living memory the alternative party that has made the most impact on modern Jamaica had been the Bruce Golding-led NDM now wallowing in dismay and disarray.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20020624t220000-0500_27776_obs_third_party_blues.asp (963 words)

	History of Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By 1938, the workers in an effort to improve their situation went on strike and related upheavals ended with the death of a few workers.
		The Federation of the West Indies was launched in 1959 and Jamaica was a part of this group.
		In 1961, a referendum was called to determine whether or not the people of Jamaica should remain a part of the Federation.
	www.jnht.com /jamaica/independ.html (348 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, Kingston, Port Antonio and South Coast.
		Jamaica’s first inhabitants were the Tainos, an Arawak-speaking people, believed to be originally from South America.
		Columbus described Jamaica as “the fairest isle mine ever eyes beheld…” His arrival marked the beginning of five hundred years of European occupation and governance.
	www.visitjamaica.com /about_jamaica/history.aspx (742 words)

	Green Left - Jamaica's Manley converts to 'free marketeer' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jamaica, he said, is “strapped up to its eyeballs, totally dependent on an International Monetary Fund that's more powerful than ever before”.
		Jamaica's leftist opposition appears demoralised by the collapse of the eastern bloc and unable to pose an alternative to the
		Trevor Munroe, head of the virtually dormant Workers Party of Jamaica, is openly disillusioned with the socialist road and says he sees no leftist solution to the economic crisis.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1992/50/3544 (985 words)

	Norman Washington Manley
		Norman Washington Manley founded the People’s National Party which later was tied to the Trade Union Congress and the N.W. Together with Bustamante, their efforts resulted in the New Constitution of 1944 granting full Adult Suffrage.
		He identified himself with the cause of the workers at the time of the labor troubles of 1938 and donated time and advocacy to the cause.
		Norman Manley, after arranging Jamaica’s orderly withdrawal from the union, set up a joint committee to decide on a constitution for separate independence for Jamaica.
	www.jamaicaway.com /Heroes/ManleyPage.html (410 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Munroe is Gov't Senator - Tuesday \| November 5, 2002
		The NEC of the party is the highest decision-making body outside its national conference.
		Professor Munroe, along with businessman Douglas Orane, were named to the Senate in 1997 after the PNP secured a landslide victory over the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
		He has dabbled in party politics as founder and leader of the now defunct communist Workers Party of Jamaica (1978-1990) and was widely known for his radical, left-wing ideas during the 1970s.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20021105/lead/lead5.html (471 words)

	Workers World Sept. 27, 2001: Causes of turmoil in Jamaica
		Jamaica was formally declared a colony in 1509 and partially settled by the Spanish adventurer Juan de Esquival.
		Based on slave labor, the new sugar industry boomed and Jamaica was soon regarded as one of the finest jewels in the British crown.
		Although Jamaica's most powerful slave rebellion was crushed through trickery, the struggle for emancipation elevated the issue of abolition, and the British Parliament was forced to formally end chattel slavery in its colonial possessions effective Aug. 1, 1834.
	www.workers.org /ww/2001/jamaica0927.php (1348 words)

	Workers World Sept. 20, 2001: Causes of turmoil in Jamaica
		Missing from the coverage was Jamaica's long history of slavery and colonialism, with their legacy of severe class divisions, racism and poverty.
		Jamaica had enjoyed rapid industrial growth during the 1950s and 1960s as the bauxite industry boomed.
		Jamaica's external debt--U.S. $800 million in the 1970s--had risen to $4 billion by the end of the 1980s.
	www.workers.org /ww/2001/jamaica0920.php (1146 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Today’s political system is both the result and reflection of these challenges; our accession to democratic self-government follows steps taken in response to immediate social concerns, while the system itself mirrors the character of the Jamaican people, their priorities and aspirations.
		Jamaica today boasts one of the most stable and successful democracies in the region.
		The first political party in Jamaica (also the first in the Caribbean) was the People’s National Party, (PNP), founded in 1938 by barrister, trade unionist and Jamaican National Hero, Norman Washington Manley.
	www.visitjamaica.com /about_jamaica/our_culture_politics.aspx (549 words)

	Journalist Elean Thomas is dead - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Former member of the WPJ and close friend of 30 years, Dr Elaine Wallace, lecturer and communications specialist, said Thomas will be remembered for her stridency and militant public platform.
		Meanwhile, Trevor Munroe, president of the University and Allied Workers Union and a former leader of the WPJ, said Thomas was a strong advocate for the right of Jamaicans and the upliftment of the disadvantaged.
		Also a former member of the executive board of the Press Association of Jamaica, Thomas was a reporter for the Gleaner newspaper in the 1970s and headed the editorial department of the Jamaica Information Service -the former Agency for Public Information.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20040528T230000-0500_60510_OBS_JOURNALIST_ELEAN_THOMAS_IS_DEAD.asp (611 words)

	No to Bush, Kerry, Nader: For a Workers Party
		That we need a workers party, a party that represents the working class as opposed to all the bourgeois parties, which represent the interests of the ruling class.
		The workers’ party must never be the tagtail of any bourgeois party; it must be independent and have its own policy.” This was in a speech he made to the First International, the International Workingmen’s Association, in September 1871.
		This is despite the nationalist bureaucracy that governs Cuba, which is a bureaucratically deformed workers state; there isn’t the proletarian democracy of soviets (workers councils) that existed in the beginning of the Russian Revolution under Lenin and Trotsky.
	www.internationalist.org /revo2warelections1004.html (3770 words)

	Ch 10
		Florizel A. Glasspole, C.D., was sworn in as Governor-General of Jamaica (the third since Jamaica became independent in 1962) by Sir Herbert Duffus, acting Governor-General at a colourful ceremony at King's House in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering.
		In November an amendment to the Jamaica Constitution was passed to allow a maximum of four Cabinet Ministers to be appointed from the Senate.
		On August 23, Jamaica was chosen as the Headquarters of the Seabed Authority.
	www.discoverjamaica.com /gleaner/discover/geography/history8.htm (1708 words)

	Index Co-Cz
		Within the party he was the focus for opposition to Charles Haughey, and their rivalry in some ways blighted Colley's political career.
		The outside Labor organizations decided that the members of the parliamentary party had to sign a pledge to support unconditionally whatever programme the party as a whole might ordain should be followed.
		The Conservative Party congressman was the first civilian defense minister in Nicaraguan history (1997-98) and thereafter became interior minister (1998-99), agriculture minister (1999-2000), and president of the National Assembly (2002-04).
	members.fortunecity.com /ar1932/indexc4.html (16331 words)

	Jamaica - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1959 Jamaica became a member of the West Indies Federation until Britain dissolved it in 1962.
		In 1992 there were gun battles between rival political supporters of the PNP and the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) after the death in custody of a JLP activist, Lester Coke and the murder of his son that result in the deaths of 8 people.
		In the same month sugar workers went on two weeks strike while civil servants threatened to strike in protest to the planned loss of some 8,000 jobs.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/jamaica.htm (1186 words)

	Jamaica Visa Application - Tourist Visas, Business Visas, Expedited Visas - Jamaica Page
		It has an area of 11,424 square kilometers (4,411 square miles), more than twice the area of Trinidad, which is next in size, and measures 243 kilometers (146 miles) from east to west.
		The economy of Jamaica is primarily agricultural, but gains in mining, manufacturing, and tourism have diversified the economy.
		Each union was closely identified with one of the two main political parties: the NWU with the People's National Party and the BITU with the Jamaica Labor Party.
	www.travisa.com /Jamaica/jamaicaportal.html (390 words)

	Trinidad and Tobago Review
		Michael Manley and the Jamaican Left complain that their elaborate plan for a radical dispensation in Jamaica in the 1970s was systemically destabilized by the CIA and the State Department.
		Among many quite extraordinary things, Lewis reveals is that the Workers Party of Jamaica, famous for the critical support it lent to Manley’s PNP, had had its leadership “ratified” by Moscow.
		The method can only be the adoption of constitution reform by at least one party, old or new, committed to the reconstitution of the colonial state and in no way deluded into confusing that with amendment to the Constitution as law and as text.
	www.tntreview.com /lbestbox0105.shtml (1372 words)

	Grenadian and Caribbean Acronyms - W - acronymtemplate.html
		Workers Liberation League (Jamaican precursor to the WPJ)
		Not only did the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) and their political party, The New Jewel Movement (NJM), have a proclivity for using acronyms or short-hand letters for what was meant, but they were in communication with Cuba and the Soviet Union.
		Using the compilation on this page as a complete compilation or partial compilation for other than personal use is not acceptable.
	www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com /acronymsw.html (210 words)

	IrieWeb.Net - A Jamaican point of view of the web
		Independent Jamaica was six years old and struggling to find itself in the middle of ideological racial voices shouting from the left and from the right.
		The Jamaica Labour Party government led by Hugh Shearer belonged emphatically to the right, a position it fiercely defended by marshalling such forces as police activity, the banning of literature and persons, among other impositions.
		His activities in Jamaica in 1968 deepened the alliance of West Indian writing and literature with grassroots sensibilities and a proletarian consciousness, which continued at the core of the new poetry.
	www.irieweb.net /CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=88 (1485 words)

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