The Jamaica Observer‘s attempts to reach the JNHT’s chief contact with the Tainos, Darion McGann ... of the existence of the local Taíno people, mainly due to “the prevailing colonial ...

By that time, the Spanish had spent nearly 20 years enslaving the populations of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and more. The Taíno were the first people Christopher Columbus encountered when he ...

The Taíno, indigenous people of the Caribbean, were the primary inhabitants of what is now Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica ... Ricky Collado and Taino Golf.

The Native people of Hispaniola were long believed to ... in what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic; in Jamaica and eastern Cuba; in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas.

History books, even new books, say the Taíno people have perished. But the Indigenous people of the Caribbean encountered by Christopher Columbus have not died away, she said. “I’m here.

The first indigenous people encountered by Christopher Columbus ... South America and inhabited the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico). Some scholars estimate the Taíno ...

c. 4000-1000BC - Jamaica is first settled. c. 800AD - Taino people settle on island, most likely from South America. 1494 - Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica. 1509 - Jamaica occupied by the ...