Black, green, and yellow are Pan-African colors. Yellow recalls the shining sun, black reflects hardships, and green represents the land. "Hardships there are but the land is green and the sun shineth" is the local explanation of the colors.
This is because Jamaica is a British colony.
oddly enough it is from ghana, not jamaica
A bipartisan committee of the Jamaica House of Representatives designed the Jamaican Flag.
Jamaica's flag was adopted on August 6, 1962, which is the country's independence day.
Jamaica's flag was adopted on August 6, 1962, which is the country's Independence Day.
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One can find a picture of the flag of Jamaica on the site of Amazon, I am a Jamaican Facebook, News and Views by Dionne Jackson, and the entry of Jamaica at Wiki.
The yellow on the Jamaican flag stands for the SUNSHINE
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The union Jack
a bipartisan comittee of the Jamaica house of representatives designed the flag
a bipartisan comittee of the Jamaica house of representatives designed the flag