Jamaica cultural definition

Nation in the West Indies, situated south of Cuba and west of Haiti, in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital and largest city is Kingston.

• It was the leading world sugar producer in the eighteenth century, when a large slave population grew up around sugar plantations.
• A British colony from 1865 to 1962, Jamaica then became completely independent.
• The country has a high level of poverty.
• Tourism is a major industry.