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Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Hibiscus that is native to Africa, most likely West Africa. In the 16th and early 17th centuries it was spread to Asia and the West Indies, where it has since become naturalized in many places. [ 1 ]
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
Jamaican cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, ingredients, flavours, spices and influences from the Taínos, Jamaica's indigenous people, the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Scottish, Irish, English, African, Indian, Chinese and Middle Eastern people, who have inhabited the island.
The earliest free black people were the Spanish Maroons, who fought the English colonial authorities intermittently in the latter half of the 17th century. [1]When the English captured Jamaica in 1655, the Spanish colonists fled, leaving a large number of African slaves.
The drink made out of the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa has many regional variations and names: it is known as bissap in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal; wonjo in The Gambia; zobo in Nigeria; zobolo in Ghana; foléré, dabileni, tsobo, siiloo or soborodo in different parts of Africa; [1] karkadé in Egypt, Sudan and Italy; sorrel in ...
Yellowman, reggae and dancehall artist; Bob Andy, reggae vocalist; Buju Banton, reggae singer; John Barnes, English footballer; Aston "Family Man" Barrett, bassist; Beenie Man, real name Moses Davis, dancehall artist and former husband of Michelle D'Angel Downer
Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come is a village in the Cockpit Country of western Jamaica. It is now a part of a district called Aberdeen, Jamaica, in the north-east section of Saint Elizabeth Parish, and is not extinct, as was originally believed. From the Jamaican dialect, the village name translates in English as, 'If I don't send for you, don't come.'
Many of Jamaica's oldest businesses were started in Mandeville; the Mandeville Hotel, one of the oldest in the Caribbean, began operations in 1875. Its golf club, founded as the Manchester Golf Club in 1868, was the first golf course in the Caribbean. The first "free library" in Jamaica was established in 1938, and is the oldest Parish Library.