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Chinese Jamaicans. Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century; there was another moment of migration in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the descendants of early migrants have moved abroad, primarily to Canada and the United States. [3]
Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google [12] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. [4] It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, [7] and CSP -style concurrency. [13]
Occupation (s) Singer-songwriter, singjay. Years active. 1980s. Clive Bright (2 December 1966 – 13 August 1988), [1] [2] better known as Tenor Saw, was a Jamaican dancehall singjay in the 1980s, considered one of the most influential singers of the early digital reggae era. His best-known song was the 1985 hit "Ring the Alarm" on the "Stalag ...
Jamaica in 1717. Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community of formerly enslaved Africans called the Windward Maroons. [1] In the early 18th century, under the leadership of Nanny, the Windward Maroons fought a guerrilla war over many ...
Michael Norman Manley ON OM OCC PC (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been described as a populist. He remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers.
The Gleaner Manufacturing Company (aka: Gleaner Combine Harvester Corp.) is an American manufacturer of combine harvesters. Gleaner (or Gleaner Baldwin ) has been a popular brand of combine harvester particularly in the Midwestern United States for many decades, first as an independent firm, and later as a division of Allis-Chalmers .
Leonard Percival Howell (16 June 1898 – 23 January 1981), also known as The Gong [1] or G. G. Maragh (for Gangun Guru ), was a Jamaican religious figure. According to his biographer Hélène Lee, [2] Howell was born into an Anglican family. He was one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement (along with Joseph Hibbert and Archibald ...
A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. Hughes' first novel, it was set in the late nineteenth century and followed a group of children captured by pirates on a voyage from Jamaica. A critical success as well as a bestseller on its first publication in ...