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Some 60 per cent of names in the Jamaican telephone directory are Scottish in origin A petition has now been lodged at the Scottish Parliament on the issue by Ish Lennox of the Flag Up Scotland ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica — UK-based, Jamaica-born dancehall artiste Dubbi is pleased with the enduring popularity of his ' Side Chick' song which is a bona f ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Having learnt that his grandfather was one of the first Jamaicans who migrated to the United Kingdom as part of the Windrush Generation, Luke Samuels has had a lifelong dream ...
You might expect the answer to that question to be Canada or New Zealand, but the surprising answer is Jamaica. The frequency of Scottish surnames is such that 60% of names in the Jamaican ...
A Jamaican Olympian at the heart of his nation's golden generation of athletes wants to create a link that could see Scottish sprinters train with the best in the world. Sixty-two-year-old Anthony ...
A Scottish NHS health board could send doctors ... be sent to work in hospitals near what was once the Red Hill pen in Jamaica, the slavery estate a previous incarnation of the hospital received ...
Museums often celebrate new acquisitions, especially something rare or historic. In April 2024, scientists from the Natural ...
There were already many Scottish influences in Jamaica as a result of Scotland’s shameful links to the slave trade there. By the late 1700s, one third of Jamaican plantations were owned by Scots.
She describes herself as "half-Jamaican, half-Scottish" and lives in Manchester. She'd heard about Shaw and seen some video highlights of her online — but says it was amazing to see "Bunny" play ...
A lizard specimen on its way back to its Jamaican homeland from a Scottish university collection 170 years after it was taken has been described as “transformational” by researchers.