Few words about Jamaica.

You've heard of Jamaica, right?
That's this small, beautiful island in the Caribbean sea, between North and South America, where sun shines all year around, where are amazing beaches, 5-star hotels, delicious fruits, and all around positive reggee music is played and where people are smiling.
Those are Ziggy Marley's (son of Bob) words, which capture prefectly soul of Jamaicans: 

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica.
So let them come be in their paradise.

Island has a long and sad history. Since 1494 r. and spanish colonization, natives started to die off because of diseases and slavery overwork. Colonizers were forced to capture and bring people of Africa to work in sugar plantations. Jamaica has long history of pirates and privateers, who found safe harbour in Port Royal. In XVII century island was conquered by the English, and became centre of producing sugarcane and the slave trade. In the middle of XIX century slavery was finally abolished. According to location, during history of Jamaica, there were several severe earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes. Finally since 1962 Jamaica is independent country, but still faces many problems and is on the list of Countries Of The Global South.
Jamaican motto:

Out of Many, One People.

And do you know what language is spoken in Jamaica? No, it's not Englisk, It's Jamaican! In other words- Patois or Patwa, it's the language coming from English mixed with Akan (Ghana) and Bantu (Nigeria-Congo). We will give more details according to this matter as soon as we get there... :)