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The years prior to the Coral Gardens incident saw the building of tensions between the Rastafarian community and the British colonial government in Jamaica.In 1958, British police engaged in several arrests and evictions of Rastafarians, often bringing to bear charges for the possession of cannabis, which is used as a Rastafarian religious sacrament.
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
This picture of the Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai (created in 1559) shows all the elements of a classical Chinese garden – water, architecture, vegetation, and rocks. This is a list of Chinese-style gardens both within China and elsewhere in the world.
Imported as a low-wage labor force from China, Chinese settled in three main locations: Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana (now Guyana), initially working on the sugar plantations. Most of the Chinese workers initially went to British Guiana; however when importation ended in 1879, the population declined steadily, mostly due to emigration ...
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Old Harbour Bay is a settlement in Jamaica.It has a population of 8,537 as of 2009. [1]Under Spanish Jamaica, Old Harbour was known as Esquivel. [2]Old Harbour Bay is located in St. Catherine Jamaica and comprises many smaller sub-divisions such as: Dagga Bay, Buddho, Crossroad, Blackwood Gardens Scheme, Settlement, Terminal, Salt Plane, Narine Lane (formerly known as Hellgate), Salt Gully ...