It works on similar lines to the British parliament. The constitution embodies absolute safeguards to personal liberties and democratic rule of law. Parliament sits at Gordon House on Kingston's Duke Street and visitors can watch proceedings from the visitors gallery. Arawak Indians were the original inhabitants exterminated by the Spanish after Columbus discovered Jamaica in 1492. The Spanish were defeated by the British in 1655.
Snakes are extremely rare.
They were killed off by the mongoose, imported to exterminate canefield rats. Climate is year-round summer with no definite rainy season, although it usually rains most in May and October. North-easterly trade winds blow continually. Obeahism the Jamaican form of Voodoo exists but is seldom heard of. The Obeah man is supposed to marshal evil spirits to bring good or bad fortune.