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'Free Village is the term used for Caribbean settlements, particularly in Jamaica, founded in the 1830s and 1840s with land for freedmen with independence of the control of plantation owners and other major estates.
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet (21 November 1768 – 24 September 1834) was a British planter and landowner who owned sugar plantations in the colony of Jamaica.
The Jamaican Free Zones are a government free trade zone initiative in Jamaica.Designed to encourage foreign investment and international trade, businesses operating within these zones have no tax on their profits, and are exempted from customs duties on imports and exports (capital goods, raw materials, construction materials, and office equipment) and import licensing requirements.
Pages in category "Landforms of Jamaica" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Mount Charles ...
Pages in category "Lists of landforms of Jamaica" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [15] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [20] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [9]
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.