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Howard Gregory, Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands since 2012, and Archbishop of the West Indies since 2019; Stanley Redwood, 10th President of the Senate of Jamaica; Adlyn White, Moderator of the Synod of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands; References
The West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies cricket team are made up of representatives from 15 mainly English-speaking countries in the Caribbean, which are: Anguilla [ n 1 ] [ n 2 ] Antigua and Barbuda [ n 2 ]
St. Augustine UWI Campus. The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, [2] [3] is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands ...
The death toll among the troops posted to the West Indies garrison, formerly regarded as virtually a death sentence, declined dramatically. [ 4 ] During the colonial period until 1959, Newcastle was used as a "change-of-air camp" by British regiments stationed in Jamaica.
At its greatest extent, Jamaica is 235 km (146 mi) long, and its width varies between 34 and 84 km (21 and 52 mi). [1] Jamaica has a small area of 10,992 km 2 (4,244 sq mi). [1] However, Jamaica is the largest island of the Commonwealth Caribbean and the third largest of the Greater Antilles, after Cuba and Hispaniola. [1]
The Indian cricket team toured the West Indies for a four-match Test series. Prior to the four Test matches, there were two tour matches. [1] [2] The tour coincided with the 2016 Caribbean Premier League. [3] This was the first bilateral tour between the two sides since the West Indies pulled out of the previous tour in October 2014. [4]
The Taino referred to the island as "Xaymaca," but the Spanish gradually changed the name to "Jamaica." [12] In the so-called Admiral's map of 1507, the island was labeled as "Jamaiqua"; and in Peter Martyr's first tract from the Decades of the New World (published 1511—1521), he refers to it as both "Jamaica" and "Jamica."