The first Chinese arrived in Jamaica as indentured laborers for British sugar plantations in the 1850s and 1860s, and continued to immigrate voluntarily in small groups right up until the 1940s.

• 从19世纪五六十年代一直到二十世纪40年代，陆续有很多中国人移民到牙买加，主要是福建人和广东人。