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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 – 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Marys Seacole,” the revelatory new drama by Jackie Sibblies Drury (at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow), revolves around the life of its namesake, the nineteenth-century Scottish-Jamaican nurse ...
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.