Jamaica

Jamaica ( (listen)) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic); the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands lies some 215 kilometres (134 mi) to the north-west. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 July 2024 English

IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington “Tiga” Francis, who survived crushing poverty and violence in Jamaica’s notorious ghettos and the insidious racism of 1980s

pride of Toronto by way of Montreal and Kingston, Jamaica, our challenger. He is the reigning Canadian featherweight are two Jamaicas. There is the idyllic postcard Jamaica, complete with honeymoon suites, manicured beaches lovers’ paradise, Jamaica is the heartbeat of the world. And there is the Jamaica that I remember: an an angry and im- poverished and violent Jamaica, home to a proud people buoyed by a deep spirituality in the 1960s, Jamaica was not a place as much as it was an attitude. For us, Jamaica meant survival


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

Bermuda Islands, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Islands, Leeward Islands (Antigua


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 24 May 2024 English

Detailing an eventful year that saw the IGF Secretariat deliver several new publications, workshops, and events for its growing membership.

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Oceans North · 10 May 2024 English

The second is to formally request Canada's commitment to several key actions at the upcoming International Seabed Authority (ISA) meeting in July 2024, which will be a critical meeting to …

Authority (ISA) Council meeting, held in Kingston, Jamaica from March 18th - 29th. The second is to formally


AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 3 May 2024 English

The magazine explores some of the challenges in expanding carbon finance for clean cooking; innovative efforts to bring more investors onto the scene; and new programs to strengthen the market’s …

came from Mexico (44.3%), Guatemala (25.1%) or Jamaica (13.3%). The number of workers from Mexico was


National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health · 3 May 2024 English

Food food systems threaten our health and well- systems consist of several major components: being when workers are treated poorly, food is the food supply chain, people and institutions, produced …

Canadian farm employers to hire workers from Mexico, Jamaica and other Caribbean countries on temporary visas


Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre · 16 April 2024 English

0 2 4 | S U M M E R E M P L O Y M E N T International 1% HBA 2024 geography of (includes: China, Jamaica, and Ireland) accepted summer employment 261 342 93% Total number of Total companies Percentage of

Other (includes Argentina, Barbados. Bermuda, Jamaica, Malaysia, Europe) 1% India 612 47% 6% 28% 26 49% International 1% HBA 2024 geography of (includes: China, Jamaica, and Ireland) accepted summer employment 261 342 International includes: China, China Mainland, Jamaica, and Ireland. Other* 14% $192 $1,600 $880 $840


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores …

Wayde Compton.xiv | xv As far away as I was in Jamaica, over two thousand nautical miles from Vancouver travelled from Vancouver, Canada, to Kingston, Jamaica, and now to Edmonton, Alberta. (I will now have assumptive of all. Consider one last example. In Jamaica in the early 1970s a new art form was brewing industrial by-product: the dub side of a record. Jamaica, though a small country, had one of the most prolific


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 27 March 2024 English

The report follows the publication of Safe at Work, Unsafe at Home: COVID-19 and Temporary Foreign Workers in Prince Edward Island in 2021 and Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers …

2023a). Most of these workers originate from Jamaica, Mexico, Guatemala, and India (Statistics Canada Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Care Denied When Kerian Burnett, a migrant from Jamaica, was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer working with people from other nations, such as Jamaica, Guatemala, Barbados, the Philippines, and Canada


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