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Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions. The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) is a 5,000-member public sector trade union in Jamaica which represents workers in local and national government, governmental corporations, quasi-government bodies and other agencies created by statute. Its members are non-supervisory personnel ...
National Council on Drug Abuse. Councils of the Ministry of Health. Medical Council of Jamaica. Nursing Council of Jamaica. Dental Council of Jamaica. Pharmacy Council of Jamaica. Council of Professions Supplementary to Medicine. Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries [5] Anti- Dumping and Subsidies Commission.
The government passed an act to transfer the government offices to Kingston from Spanish Town, which occurred in 1872. In 1882, there was a large fire in Kingston. [16] In 1892, electricity first came to Jamaica, when it was supplied to a coal-burning steam-generating plant on Gold Street in Kingston.
The Ministry of National Security (MNS) is a statutory under the government of Jamaica responsible for maintaining national safety through the enforcement of law and order. It has its headquarters in the North Tower of the NCB Towers in Kingston . [1]
Kingston: 1968 Primary exchange Lasco Jamaica: Conglomerates - Kingston: 1994: Industrials, financials, pharma National Commercial Bank of Jamaica: Financials Banks Kingston: 1977 Banking Norman Manley International Airport: Industrials Transportation services Kingston: 1948 Airport Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica: Oil & gas Exploration ...
The Jamaica Churchman OCLC 63206121. Jamaica Herald [1] Jamaica Information Service ( JIS ), information and news service of the Jamaican Government [3] Jamaica Observer, Jamaican daily [4] The Jamaica Star (1951–present), Jamaican daily [5] Jamaican Times. Royal Gazette. Western Mirror [6]
The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica was a British colony between 1655 and 1962. More than 300 years of British rule changed the face of the island considerably (having previously been under Spanish rule, which depopulated the indigenous Arawak and Taino communities) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade.
Jamaica ( / dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka, [dʒʌˈmi̯eka]) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, it is the third largest island— after Cuba and Hispaniola — of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south of Cuba, and ...