Jamaica

What kind of place is Jamaica?

Why are we talking about Jamaica?

Do we have anything in common?

Our objectives :

• To gather all our ideas and knowledge about Jamaica

• To find out new things about this country

• To think about the differences between Bethesda and Jamaica

• To explore what we have in common.

Jamaica is a part of the Caribbean Islands

It’s a country that stretches over

4,441 sq km

Is it bigger than Wales?

It has a population of 2.65 million people of African, Afro-European, European, East Indian

and Middle Eastern, and Asian descent (background)

It is a colourful melting-pot of traditions and cultures!

Jamaica has a tropical climate – hot, sunny, balmy and occasionally very rainy!

You can see beaches, mountains, valleys, plains and fields.

This makes it a perfect country to grow coffee, cocoa and sugar cane

What has all this got to do with us?

There are so many differences between Wales,

Bethesda, and Jamaica.What could we (in Bethesda)

have in common?

Jamaica has a vivid and painful history

Two things have affected the history and character of Jamaica :

The sugar cane industry

The slave trade.

Sugar

European sailing ships settling in Jamaica in 18th century

Wanting to make money

How could they do that? Did they work themselves?

SlavesFrom where?

How did they come?

The Bethesda-Jamaica connection

Richard Pennant

Lord Penrhyn

Built on sugar profit

Built on the back of slave labour

Penrhyn Castle

Penrhyn Quarry