• Capital City: Kingston• Population: 2,889,187 (July 2012 Estimate)• Average Temperature: 82 F• Languages: English & Patois• Government: Parliamentary Democracy & Constitutional Monarchy

• Black – 90.9%• Mixed - 7.3%• East Indian – 1.3%• White – 0.2%• Chinese – 0.2%

Black stands for hardships overcome and to be faced.

Gold stands for natural wealth and beauty of sunlight.

Green stands for hope and agricultural resources.

Bauxite and alumina, apparel, sugar, banana, citrus, rum and cocoa.

“Out of Many, One People”

“Jamaica, Land We Love”

•Fruit: Ackee•Tree: Blue Mahoe•Flower: Lignum Vitae•Bird: Red-billed Streamertail (Doctor Bird)

Athletic Sprinter

Reggae Musician

That Port Royal in Jamaica was once labeled “The

Wickedest City on Earth?!

Reggae DJ

Businessman

That Jamaica was the first country in the Western World

to construct a railway?!

Model

President & CEO of Island Records And Palm Pictures, NYC

Jamaica is the 3rd most country to win Miss World Titles?!

Writer

Record Breaking Test Cricketer

Jamaican 200 Meter Gold Medalist

Jamaican-Born Canadian World

Champion Sprinter

Jamaica has more multiple live births than anywhere else in the

world?!

Former Prime Minister

Artist&

Sculptor

Poet

Reggae Musician

The Manchester Gold Club in Jamaica, established in

1868, is the oldest in the western world!

Winner of the Scripps NationalSpelling Bee Competition

World Champion Sprinter

World Champion Boxer

Poet

In 2006-2007, the world’s fastest man and woman in the world were Jamaicans?!

(Asafa Powell & Sherone Simpson)

Political Activist

JamaicanSprinter

FormerMinister

Chairman & CEO of AIC Ltd. &Chairman of NCB Jamaican

Jamaica was the first tropical country to enter the IOC

Winter Olympics?!

Champion Boxer

FormerPrime Minister

It was a Jamaican slave that started the riots which saw Haiti becoming the first independent

black nation?!

Jamaica-Born American

Former NBA Player

Prime Minister

Marcus Garvey helped to spare head the civil rights movement in

America?!

Reggae Singer

Reggae Singer & Songwriter

International Cricket Umpire

Athletic Sprinter

Model Jamaican by Parents

American PoliticianJamaican by Parents

RapperJamaican by Parents

R&B SingerJamaican by Parents

Fashion ModelJamaican by Parents

Actress, Singer, ActivistJamaican by Parents