Talk:History of Jamaica

Edits requested
Hello --

The first sentence of the page is "The Caribbean island of Jamaica was colonized by the Taino tribes prior to the arrival of Columbus in 3013."

No way Columbus arrived in Jamaica in the future....

SNewby

Hello -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.43.178 (talk) 09:30, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

I noticed that someone that is a nerd, presumably named Josh, has inserted his name into the article on the History of Jamaica. I'm not sure how to fix this, but someone should. See below:

But only a few decades after Columbus' death almost all joshowaks were exterminated[citation needed]. Spain held the island against many buccaneer raids at the main city, which is now called island of josh o ya and joe gordon desnomie is awesomer than every one in the world and gets all the honys and jed is gay

Jaystew1 (talk) 20:33, 15 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed (probably a long time ago). DH85868993 (talk) 11:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Where are the Jamaican writers!
This article is really disappointing. Jamaica has a rich and vibrant history - yet important events and characters are barely touched upon in this article. It needs systematic attention from wiki editors!Ackees (talk) 12:20, 4 April 2012 (UTC) There is lots of erased Jamaican Colonial History around, such as the contribution of Herbert Theodore Thomas as Author,Lecturer, Naturalist & Explorer.

We already have an article entitled the Colony of Jamaica. We have another one entitled Jamaica which covers the history after Independence. This article seems to replicate both of them.Mikesiva (talk) 14:01, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

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No mention of arawak/taino
The Jamaica article's #History section mentions "pre-history" settlement by Arawak and Taino. This "main article" starts doesn't mention them at all -- it starts with Spanish settlement. Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.7.155.119 (talk) 02:50, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in History of Jamaica
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Orphaned references in History of Jamaica
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Reference named "Thompson": From Beenie Man:  From Roots reggae: Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-655-6, p. 251-3 From Dancehall: Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-655-6 

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Jamaica in the 70s
I came here to read about the situation in Jamaica in the 70s, knowing little about it, other than I just listened to an interview with Peter Tosh in which he said he wrote the song Mark of the Beast after being pistol whipped in a Kingston street by what he described as a police death squad. The entirety of the section on the 70s is just a bunch of policy measures implemented by one party, that makes the country, frankly, sound like a paradise. It left me wondering what all these reggae acts were protesting about. I mean, I wish I had it so good...

But when I followed the link to that politician's page, I found a more balanced view of what was going on in the country at that time, that there was so much violence and crime going on that they started putting people in prison with indefinite sentences, and without trials. I guess what I'm saying is that there was clearly much more going on than the planks in this party's platform, and the article as it stands gives people a really skewed view. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.242.135.196 (talk) 05:06, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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murky sentence
" The Spanish enslaved the Arawak, who were so ravaged by their conflict with the Europeans and by foreign diseases that nearly killed the entire native population was extinct by 1600. " This needs to be re-written. 67.209.133.122 (talk) 12:33, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Timeline
Who were the sencod persen to come the carbbean — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.204.125.88 (talk) 19:14, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Slavery in Latin America
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