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Jamaica Flags – Jamaican Flag, Bunting & Hand Flags

Jamaica flags for Independence Day on 6 August, Notting Hill Carnival and every Reggae Boyz and Sunshine Girls fixture. Fly the Jamaican flag in 3x2, 5x3 or 8x5ft, string Jamaica bunting along the jerk stall and wave Jamaica hand flags at the carnival. Bob Marley and reggae designs sit alongside the national flag.

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The Jamaican flag: black, green and gold

The Jamaica flag is a gold diagonal cross (a saltire) dividing the field into four triangles: green at the top and bottom, black at the hoist and fly. It first went up at midnight on 6 August 1962, the moment Jamaica became independent from Britain, after a public competition and a last-minute change from horizontal stripes that looked too much like Tanganyika’s. Unusually, no red, white or blue appears in it, a distinction it shares with just one other national flag. The official reading since 1996 is that black stands for the strength and creativity of the people, gold for the sunshine and natural wealth, and green for hope and the land. Our Jamaica flag keeps the 1:2 proportion and the true gold rather than a washed-out yellow, printed through so the saltire reads correctly from both sides.

Independence Day, Carnival and the Reggae Boyz

The big dates for a Jamaican flag in the UK are Independence Day on 6 August (Emancipation Day falls five days earlier on 1 August, so the whole week is one celebration), Notting Hill Carnival on the August bank-holiday weekend, and Jamaica Day events in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and Brixton. On the sport side it is the Reggae Boyz at the Gold Cup and World Cup qualifiers, the Reggae Girlz, the Sunshine Girls in netball, and above all the sprinters: every Olympics and World Athletics Championships sees Jamaica hand flags out in force. Caribbean takeaways, jerk stalls, barbershops and reggae nights keep one up all year.

Which size Jamaica flag?

Most Jamaican flags go out at 5ft x 3ft, for a takeaway front, a garden pole or a carnival float. At 3ft x 2ft the black, green and gold suits a bedroom wall, a market stall or a smaller pole; at 8ft x 5ft it fills a community-centre flagpole, a stage backdrop or a sound-system rig; at 20x12in it flies from a car or a carnival hand pole. Whatever the size, the saltire flag hangs from a sewn header punched with brass eyelets, and the DuraFlag version will take rope-and-toggle or clip fittings if you prefer.

Flagtex or DuraFlag?

Carnival season, a party or a parade lasts weeks rather than years, so Flagtex, our standard printed woven polyester, is the sensible buy. If the gold saltire has to see out the British winter outside a church, a club or a community centre, DuraFlag brings a weightier knitted cloth, twin-stitched hems and a strengthened header. Get your Jamaica order in before 2pm and it ships that day; both Yard flags are stocked in and dispatched from our Stoke-on-Trent warehouse.

Jamaica bunting

Each pennant of Jamaica bunting shows the full saltire flag, rectangle or triangle cut, with runs of 3m, 5m, 9m and 20m in weatherproof polyester on a strong tape. Prefer plain colours? The green, black and yellow triangle bunting gives the national colours without the saltire and mixes well with the flag bunting along a street or over a jerk pit, and for a reggae night there is Bob Marley bunting.

Hand flags, table flags and Bob Marley

Along the carnival route and in the athletics stadium, Jamaica hand flags (9x6in or 18x12in, wooden sticks) are the ones you see. The 6x4in Jamaica table flag stands on its own base on a patty-shop counter, at a consulate or on a school project; the satin table flag, chrome-stemmed, dresses a reception desk. The Bob Marley (Jamaica) flag sets his portrait on the national colours, with a matching hand flag and table flag, while the Jamaica Reggae flag and Jamaica Smiley Face flag brighten a festival tent. Trinidad, Barbados, Grenada and the other Caribbean islands are filed under world flags.

Jamaican flag FAQs

What do the colours of the Jamaican flag mean?

Since 1996 the official meaning is black for the strength and creativity of the Jamaican people, gold for the sunshine and the country’s natural wealth, and green for hope and agricultural richness. The older rhyme was “hardships there are, but the land is green and the sun shineth.”

Why does the Jamaica flag have no red, white or blue?

Jamaica and Mauritania are the only two countries whose flags use none of those three colours. The 1962 design committee deliberately chose colours that did not copy the Union Jack or the flags of other Commonwealth nations.

When was the Jamaican flag adopted?

It was first flown at midnight on 6 August 1962, Jamaica’s Independence Day. The original plan was horizontal stripes, changed to the diagonal cross shortly before independence because the stripes were too similar to the flag of Tanganyika.

What size Jamaica flag for a telescopic pole?

The 5ft x 3ft Jamaica flag is right for a Jamaican household’s garden pole or a 6m telescopic one. A 3ft x 2ft Jamaican flag suits a short or hand pole, and the 8ft x 5ft wants a fixed mast of 25ft or more.

When is Jamaican Independence Day?

6 August each year, with Emancipation Day on 1 August. In the UK most Jamaican community events run across that first week of August and into Notting Hill Carnival on the August bank holiday weekend.

Can I get Jamaica flags for a whole carnival troupe?

Yes. Hand flags come singly or in packs, Jamaica bunting runs up to 20m, and the Flagtex Jamaica flag at 5ft x 3ft is priced to buy by the dozen. With everything in UK stock, even a big carnival order ships within 1–2 days.