| This track served as a folk song to Jamaicans of the time because the story being told was so real to everyday life. |
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| Curiously, although Jamaicans are the largest group, professional dance is dominated by Trinidadians. |
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| But for the arrival of the Spaniards, the Caribs might have exterminated those first Jamaicans. |
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| Young Jamaicans have been combining the best of U.S. hip-hop and UK dance culture for years. |
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| Intermarriage among races over centuries accounts for the diverse physical features of Jamaicans. |
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| In 1944, with the granting of a new constitution, Jamaicans gained universal suffrage. |
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| Bog Walk Gorge is a special place indeed, full of memories for me and doubtless for many other Jamaicans. |
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| A throng of teenage Jamaicans followed, each making a few smoothing cuts with a plane. |
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| The U.S. had 14 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze medals, while the Jamaicans achieved 2 gold medals and three silvers. |
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| It is not uncommon to see tourists as well as native-born Jamaicans enjoying the beach in the nude along this seven-mile strip. |
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| Is Miller going to demand that all Haitians and Jamaicans be tattooed with an ID number? |
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| The spurious argument that Lewin was ineffective in stemming crime is so openly dishonest that Jamaicans like myself have started to tune out. |
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| He spoke in an unfeasibly low voice, with the lyrical and laconic speech so typical of the Jamaicans. |
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| He was awarded a knighthood for services to his country's cricket, but since Jamaicans do not accept such titles, is known instead as The Honourable Alan Rae. |
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| Meanwhile, frustrations over violence and insecurity have been manipulated in such a way that a majority of Jamaicans supports hard-line policing and punishment. |
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| For us Jamaicans, on the other hand, Christmas is the bashment time! |
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| The high level of crime in the country is not only a push factor for Jamaicans to leave but also a concern in the vetting of applicants. |
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| Jamaicans will hope that rivalries will be confined to the football field in future. |
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| Outsiders' demand for drugs—and the willingness of some Jamaicans to supply them risks snuffing out that progress. |
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| One barrier to success is a justice system that many Jamaicans do not see as effective. |
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| They innovate, they differentiate themselves, using the backdrop created by the Jamaicans to place their French references on it. |
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| For example, eight of 10 Haitians and Jamaicans who have college degrees live outside their country. |
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| Jamaicans drink coffee and use a portion of their production to manufacture their local specialty, a liquor called Tia-Maria. |
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| Canada congratulates Jamaicans everywhere as they mark the 47th anniversary of Jamaica's independence. |
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| Some Jamaicans have used the open enrollment at the City University of New York to improve their skills in order to obtain higher paying jobs and upward mobility. |
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| Jamaicans adapt their speech to the social context of the moment. |
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| By the end of my placement, I hope to have contributed to the development of an enjoyable and productive recreation program for Jamaicans with physical disabilities. |
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| And, let's face it, given the huge number of people who were shipped over from West Africa to the Caribbean in the past, the Jamaicans tapped into that musical heritage rightaway. |
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| A study of Jamaicans dancing finds that some of Darwin's ideas about the evolution of animal courtship apply to people. |
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| But Jamaicans are deeply cynical about their police. |
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| This year, for instance, the force recruited 380 Jamaicans, 438 Fijians and just 344 non-white Britons. There is no reason why the armed forces ought to mirror the civilian population as the police, for example, should. |
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| Nearly 45 per cent of Jamaicans who live in poverty are children. |
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| From Bajans and Trinis I've learned that we Jamaicans are an aggressive, assertive bunch of people. |
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| You know, Jamaicans have never stopped whites from playing reggae. |
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| Djamatik also called upon the services of a few long-serving Jamaicans, heading off to Birmingham to record Roots Black with Steel Pulse and working with top DJ Buju Banton in Kingston. |
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| Why Jamaicans call it naseberry and Bahamians call it dilly can only be guessed. |
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| Therefore, Jamaicans follow the British grammar, and British English is taught in school. |
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| However, it is important to note that, in Colombia, there are non-formal associations for groups of foreigners, specifically Koreans, Ecuadorians, Jamaicans and Arabs, etc. |
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| There will be cookery demonstrations with chefs and you can browse through the craft market stalls selling crafts made by local Jamaicans. |
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| But you have to remember reggae was invented by Jamaican musicians. And as Jamaicans originally came from Africa they've always considered their roots to be African. |
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| We are in the process of reviewing the legislative framework in which we operate in order to ensure the protection of human rights of all Jamaicans regardless of their beliefs, practices, health or political status. |
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| Kellier noted that, during 2014, approximately 7,952 Jamaicans benefitted from employment opportunities in Canada. |
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| There's the Jamaicans, the Trinis, Nigerians, Ghanians and Aussies as well as the English boys. |
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| Jamaicans are notable for the high level of support and encouragement they give their children in the area of sports. |
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| British and Jamaicans migrated mainly to the islands of San Andres and Providencia. |
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| According to the most recent census, conducted in 2011, the majority of Jamaicans identify as black. |
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| Many Jamaicans have emigrated to other countries, especially to the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. |
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| In the case of the United States, about 20,000 Jamaicans per year are granted permanent residence. |
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| The great number of Jamaicans living abroad has become known as the Jamaican diaspora. |
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| Some Jamaicans are hostile towards LGBT and intersex people, and there have been reported cases of mob attacks against gay people. |
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| Bay Islanders and ethnic Jamaicans came in the late 19th century, further adding to these already varied peoples, creating this ethnic group. |
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| There is no doubt, Amanti really took her time to climb to the top of the world hierarchy of the 400-meter dash, outrageously dominated long ago by the Americans and incidentally by Jamaicans and English. |
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| Jamaicans choose from the varieties available to them according to the situation. |
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| I love the way Jamaicans do those really slow, laidback beats. |
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| Authorities say the trade has flourished for years with Jamaicans receiving pistols and submachine guns in exchange for home-grown marijuana. |
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| He personifies the quality of survival so admired by Jamaicans. |
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| Back then and in the early '60s, the Jamaicans began to do recordings, and there was a guy who worked at the house that I used to see going out on the weekends all dressed up. |
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| While the most popular local sport is cricket, on the international stage Jamaicans have tended to do particularly well at track and field athletics. |
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| Ms Grey spoke on behalf of Jamaicans living here in Liverpool. |
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| To the Jamaicans, the recipients of too many foreign trainers who fly in, collect a paycheck, and fly out, our sharing made all the difference in the world. |
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