The language Jamaica asks for
An English text is required for papers used in Jamaica, so anything in the file written in another language has to arrive with one. Certified translation into English in Edinburgh handles that side, paper by paper, with a signed certificate of accuracy attached to each finished set.
Which office does which part
The commonest wrong turn on this route is expecting one body to do everything. A register issues records. A translator writes and signs translated text. A notary, if anyone wants one, adds a separate signature later. Three roles, three different desks, and none of them can stand in for another however reasonable it would be if they could.
Edinburgh Registration Service sits firmly in the first of those roles. Certified extracts of Scottish birth, marriage and death entries come from it, and that is the whole of its part here. Turning up there with English sheets in hand and asking for a stamp is a wasted trip, because there is nothing on offer to stamp them with.
Getting the record before the translating
Because the roles run in that order, so does the work. Get the record into your hands in the form you intend to file, then hand a copy over for translating. A fresh certified copy can be ordered where a Scottish civil entry is involved, which means the paper you keep at home stays where it is rather than going into an envelope.
Doing it the other way round is the expensive mistake. English pages made from one version of a record do not transfer to another version of it, so if the record is replaced after the translating is done, the sheets have to be bought again from the beginning.
Per-page cost and turnaround
About £25 buys a page, standard work is back in 2–3 business days, and the express route runs in 24 hours. Only the translating half of the chain is priced that way. What a register charges for an extract is its own matter, on its own timetable, and it is worth counting separately.
That separation is useful when you are working out a total. Two costs, two waits, two roles — write them down apart from each other and the shape of the errand becomes clear. Merging them in your head is how people end up short of either time or money.