The Fi Wi Jamaica project, a collaborative effort of the University of Technology and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), promotes advocacy against human trafficking, domestic violence and issues of intolerance throughout the country.“The project has identified music as a key tool, which can be utilised to create somewhat of a paradigm shift as it relates to general conduct,” said Cultural Director for FIWI Jamaica, Michael “Mikie” Bennett.The Fi Wi Jamaica project is employing one of the most popular and influential elements of Jamaica’s culture – music – to promote positive behaviour among citizens while creating streams of revenue.Eligibility and Basic Provisions for Returning Resident Status.Jamaicans Overseas & Consular Affairs Department.
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It was found growing in Jamaica by early Spanish explorers who were quite impressed with the taste and aroma of the berries and the leaves. Pimento Pimento is indigenous to Jamaica. It is believed Jamaica supplied Hawaii with its first commercial variety of pineapples. Pineapple The pineapple, indigenous to Jamaica, appears on the Jamaican Coat of Arms and a pineapple watermark is used for the printing of Jamaican currency. The grapefruit is a hybrid of the sweet orange and a citrus plant named shaddock after the captain who first brought it to the West Indies from Polynesia in the 18th century. Its name comes from that fact that it grows in clusters like grapes. The Grapefruit is believed to have originated in Jamaica because the first written record of the term 'grapefruit' comes from Jamaica in 1814. As the name suggests, it is a cross between an orange and tangerine. The Ortanique is uniquely a Jamaican fruit first propagated in the parish of Manchester.
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