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| JNHT celebrates annual Taino Day on May 5 |
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| Friday, 02 May 2008 | |
 Taino Indians from South America The JNHT says the event is seeking to increase public awareness of the indigenous Taínos and their contribution to the island's heritage. The Taínos were pre-Columbian inhabitants of Jamaica. Some ethnohistorians called the same culture of people "Island Arawak" from the Lokono word for cassava flour. From this, the language and the people were eventually called "Arawak". However, modern scholars consider this a mistake as the people who called themselves Arawak lived only in the Guianas and Trinidad. Guest speaker for Taíno Day will be Dr. Alric Josephs, lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies. The day's activities will include cultural presentations, lectures, a school's debate on the contribution of the Taínos to the culture, sampling of Taino foods and drinks and an art competition among other things.
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