NIGHT LIFE

In different places us hotels, you can to enjoy several actuations of Musical bands and you can to hear own rates of the region how it is the calypso. The folkloric samples and the Caribbean percussion concerts are frequent all over the country.

To that except there a show is once at the week to the torch light, of percussion with dance limbo and fire swallow acrobats' shows. Also there are discotheques, nightclubs and jazz concerts. The music most important of this region is the reggae and is for this reason this rate is present forever in all artistic presentations at country. The music and the African culture are very present in the life of the country, mixed with the colonial British influence, and in minor measurement with Asian and European influences.

The Jamaicans are very hospitable and in case of being invited to eat to the house of someone it is a custom to take a small gift. Although during the day it is dressed informally, the use of short trousers and suits of bath must be restricted to the beaches and swimming pools.

As the tourism is the principal industry of the country, the visitor is very well received, and the employees of the hotels and restaurants are respectful, nice and obliging.

Slightly very curious on the tips, the majority of the hotels and restaurants add an extra charge of 10 % on the invoice; when they do not include it one usually stops between 10 and 15 % of tip. The employees of the hotels and restaurants, as well as the young boys of load of the airports, receive tips. To cabdriver they usually give a tip equivalent to 10 % of the price paid for the trajectory.

INTRODUCTION

Jamaica

is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (146 mi) in length and as much as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 620 kilometres (385 mi) northeast of the Central American mainland, 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 190 kilometres (120 mi) west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning either the "Land of Springs," or the "Land of Wood and Water." Formerly a Spanish possession known as Santiago, it later became the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica. It is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada.

History of jamaica

Is one of the largest caribbean islands, was inhabited by Arawaks, They probably come from the country knew as Guyana, where Arawak Indians are still to be found.

The history of Jamaica may be roughly divided into six periods:

The first period may be said to date from Columbus’ arrival in the island in 1494 to the destruction of Port Royal in 1692.

The second period of our history extends from.the destruction of Port Royal to the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.

The third period of Jamaican history covers the years between the abolition of the slave trade and the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865.

The fourth period dates from 1865 to the end of July, 1914.
The fifth period began with the outbreak of the First World War on August 1, 1914 and ended on August 1962.

The sixth period began on August 6, 1962, and records the history of Jamaica as an independent country.