Jamaica in The Times

Transcripts of articles in The Times relevant to the history of Jamaica

Interested in Jamaican history? One useful resource is The Times of London which almost daily since 1785 has published reports from Jamaican correspondents and newspapers. We are pleased to share with you transcripts of some of the articles which have caught our interest.	A sincere thank you to Mid Island Car Rental for generously hosting this web site. If you are looking for a car rental in Jamaica, please visit them. We also seek other sponsors or contributors to help our work. Email us.
Copyright? All the transcripts on this web site *Jamaica in The Times* may be freely used for any purpose since the original material is out of copyright, and we are happy to encourage the free use of our transcriptions. However, if you do reproduce part or all of one of our transcriptions we would be pleased if you would acknowledge this web site as the source. Just make a link exactly as follows: http://midislandcarrental.com/jamaica-times/	Index of Transcriptions We have started this web site with a series of accounts of the Earthquake which hit Kingston on 14 Jan 1907. 16 Jan 1907 First earthquake reports by cable 17 Jan 1907 Fire follows the earthquake, exchange of cable messages 2 Feb 1907 An eyewitness's narrative Port Royal Fire 1815 19 Sep 1815 20 Sep 1815 Other articles 25 Jan 1803 First list of Mayor, Alderman, and Councillors Index of other pages How we make transciptions. How accurate are they? Request a transcription - a free service! We offer space on this web site for your article on Jamaican history, email it to me.
As well as the transcripts, we hope to give some brief summaries of historical events and links to other resources on the web. We do not claim that these repesent a complete and balanced historical summary since we have not accessed original archival resources that may be available in Jamaica or elsewhere. We shall be very happy to hear from historians who have made a deeper study, and who may perhaps share their findings with us.
LINKS TO OTHER JAMAICAN HISTORY WEB SITES: For many historical jewels we strongly recommend you visit joyousjam's Jamaican *history pages* where you will find *" . . . . always something new about Jamaica's history."*