Problem acid soils have a pH* of less than 5.6 and usually below pH 5.0. The low soil pH is associated with a number of soil chemical and biological characteristics that manifest themselves as the components of the problem acid soil syndrome.
History of Jamaica. The island of Jamaica was colonized by the Taino tribes prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. The Spanish enslaved the Tainos, who were so ravaged by their conflict with the Europeans and by foreign diseases that nearly the entire native population was extinct by 1600.
Jamaica 1572. Long before there were parishes, the island of Jamaica looked roughly like this. map. Yallahs and Morant were names of large Spanish ranches. Remember that. before 1655 it was the Spaniards who were in control. Guanaboa was a taino. name.