WHO ARE JAMAICANS?

5)Jamaica has the most “churches” per square mile of any country in the world(Guinness Book of World Records). Over 1,600 “churches” all over Jamaica . That number is growing.

6)Jamaica is the first Caribbean Country to gain Independence .

7)Jamaica is the first team from the English-speaking Caribbean to qualify for the Football (Soccer) World Cup. This was the 1998 championship.

8)Jamaica stands strong in 3rd place on the list of countries to win the Miss World titles the most! [Hmmm!]
The only countries to have won it more than Jamaica is India , Venezuela and the UK , but considering the size of Jamaica , you have to say that this achievement is monumental!

9)On his second voyage to the New World in 1494, the tip of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica was the first land sighted by Christopher Columbus.

10)Jamaica was the first commercial producer of bananas in the Western Hemisphere.

11)Jamaica also was the first island in the Caribbean to produce rum on a commercial basis.

12)The Manchester Golf Club in Jamaica , established in 1868, is the oldest in the western hemisphere!.

13)Apart from the United States , Jamaica has won the most world and Olympic medals.
2006-2007: World Fastest man and woman- you bet, are Jamaicans [Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson].
2008/2009 – Olympic/World fastest man and woman – Usain Bolt and Shelley-Ann Fraser
Jamaica has more multiple (two or more) live births than anywhere else in the world.

14)Jamaica was the first country to impose economic sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa .
Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean.

15)Jamaica was the first Caribbean island to enact legislation, “The Motion Picture Industry (Encouragement) Act” to promote the making of films.
Jamaica is the first country to sign a Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria grant agreement.

16)Jamaica was the first tropical country to enter the IOC Winter Olympics. The bob sleigh team’s efforts inspired the film ‘Cool Runnings’.

17)Jamaica was the first colony England acquired by conquest. This was in the year 1655 when the Spanish were driven from the island.

18) Jamaica have the second largest butterfly in the world? (The Giant Swallowtail).

19)Jamaica was the first British colonial territory to establish a postal service (in 1688).

20)Jamaica was the first Caricom country to liberalize the telecommunications sector. Since then, other Caricom countries have opened up to competition.

21)Jamaica was the first country in the Caribbean region to launch a web site, jamaicatravel.com. This was in 1994!

22)Jamaica was the first country in the Western world to construct a railway, even before the United States ! This was only 18 years after Britain!.

23)Jamaica is the birth place of Robert (“Bob”) Marley.

24)Jamaican Flag is the ONLY flag in the world that doesn’t share any of the colors of the American flag?

25)Jamaica is the birthplace of André Roosevelt Johnson.

ANDRE JOHNSON

AMERICA: 1-347-623-6025

JAMAICA: 1-876-570-8502

EMAIL: ajvelt@yahoo.com

WEBSITE: http://www.pilotjar.com

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BEAUTIFUL NATURAL HAIR

24 Wednesday Jun 2020

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ANDRE JOHNSON

AMERICA: 1-347-623-6025

JAMAICA: 1-876-570-8502

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WEBSITE: http://www.pilotjar.com

ADDRESS: 4819 Church Avenue
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JAMAICA MICHAEL MANLEY

24 Wednesday Jun 2020

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Over the last four decades, I have listened to many of Manley’s detractors and haters, repeating the same old lie, that, Manley ruined the Jamaican economy, during the 1970s. And because I know only too well, that, a lie, if not corrected, eventually becomes the “truth”, I have made it my duty, to debunk that lie.

What really did Manley do to ruin the economy? What should Manley not have done to prevent such “ruination”?

I recalled many great things that Manley did, therefore, I am left to ask the followings questions:

Should Manley not have enacted by law, Universal Access to Education, across the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, to widen, and to deepen academic opportunities, for economic and social mobility among the poor?
Should Manley not have enacted by law, Equal Pay for Women to promote gender equity in remuneration?
Should Manley not have enacted by law, Maternity Leave With Pay Act, to protect the income and rights of female workers who became pregnant?
Should Manley not have enacted by law, the National Minimum Wage Act, to protect low income and household workers?
Should Manley not have established the Family Court Act, to hold deliquent fathers accountable?
Should Manley not have set up JAMAL to address the high level of illiteracy among the adult population, back then?
Should Manley not have eneacted by law, the Gun Court Act, to deal with the rising level of crime that was committed increasingly by the use of guns?
Should Manley not have established the NHT, as a mechanism for the provision of housing solutions to the working class?
Should Manley not have implemented “Project Land Lease” to bolster agriculture in Jamaica?
Should Manley not have legitimized the status of children who were stigmatized and marginalized with the label of “bastard” that undermined their self worth?
Should Manley not have introduced the Community Health Aids, who provided much value in assisting the sick and indigent within the community?
Should Manley not have used Parliament to abolish the “Masters and Servants Act” inherited from Slavery and Colonialism?
Should Manley not have widened and depended the democratic process, by lowering the age of voting from 21 years to 18 years?
Should Manley not have passed the Labour Relations and Industrial Dispute Act, providing workers with unions, and enhancing their rights?
Should Manley not have built 40,000 houses for woekers between 1974 and 1980?
Should Manley not have implemented the Bauxite Levy, to plug the hole in the budget consequent upon the shortfall in foreign exchange occasioned by the global oil crisis of the 1970s, as also, to ensure that Jamaica got more for its mineral?
Should Manley not have implemented programmes to subsidize meals, school uniforms and transportation for poor disadvantaged students, so that, they too, could realize their dreams and ambitions, and become productive citizens, in the building of their own lives, and that of their country?
Should Manley not have tackled the status quo, in an attempt to redistribute wealth, and to empower the masses, that were largely disempowered by an economic system, rooted in Slavery and Colonialism, and that thrived on greed and selfishness?

What really did Manley do, that he should not have done? And just how did Manley set back Jamaica?

The truth, is, Jamaica was made the victim of propaganda, greed, selfishness and sabotage of every conceivable type, emanating from within and without. And the matter was compounded by the events occassioned by the 1970s global oil crisis.

For the factual record, Michael Manley did nothing to setback Jamaica; everything he did, was to right the wrongs of the past, by empowering the masses. For Manley, the mission was primarily about economic development rooted in social justice.

ANDRE JOHNSON

AMERICA: 1-347-623-6025

JAMAICA: 1-876-570-8502

EMAIL: ajvelt@yahoo.com

WEBSITE: http://www.pilotjar.com

ADDRESS: 4819 Church Avenue
Brooklyn
New York
11203

Communication is the key to a good relationship.