10. The water in Jamaica is potable!
9. The best jerk food comes served in tinfoil without utensils.
8. Rastafarianism is a religion, although not everyone in Jamaica is a rastafarian with dreadlocks.
7. Cricket is very popular. Jamaicans participate as the West Indies team, along with Barbados and Antigua.
6. Crime and corruption is rampant in Kingston and at the highest levels of government. The US has actually recalled its ambassador to Jamaica over its reluctance to extradite a known drug lord.
5. The cheapest juice comes in bags. Bag Juice!
4. Jamaica produces and exports bananas to Europe. You can see vast banana plantations, each with a plastic bag around the banana bunch to protect the fruit. Any bananas that have marks on the skin get made into banana chips instead.
3. Jamaica is the largest English speaking country in the Caribbean - although patois is terribly difficult to understand.
2. Jamaicans use the pronouns 'I' and 'me' backwards. 'Do you understand what me saying?'
1. Jamaica was originally a Spanish territory. The British Navy was planning on attacking and capturing Hispaniola (the DR). Finding it too well defended, they went and attacked Jamaica instead. The Spanish fled, and the island came under British rule.
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