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4 to 13 August – Jamaica participated at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, with 54 competitors in 24 events; Deaths Peter Abrahams in 1955. 18 January – Peter Abrahams, novelist, journalist and political commentator (b. 1919). 25 January – Ronnie Davis, reggae singer (b. 1950).
The National Workers Union (NWU) is a general trade union in Jamaica. The National Workers Union was founded on 2 April 1952 emerging as a result of a split within the Trade Union Congress and factional alignments within the People's National Party (PNP). The NWU became the main trade union of the PNP. [1] The NWU was a founding member of the ...
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By David McFadden KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica's month-old government on Wednesday launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of its winning election campaign.
Percival Noel James Patterson, ON, OCC, KC (born 10 April 1935), popularly known as P.J. Patterson, is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years, making him the longest-serving prime minister in Jamaica's history. He was the leader of the People's National ...
The Jamaica women's national football team, nicknamed the "Reggae Girlz", represents Jamaica in international women's football. They are one of the top women's national football teams in the Caribbean region along with Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti. In 2008, the team was disbanded after it failed to get out of the group stage of Olympic ...
Human trafficking in Jamaica. Jamaica is a source, transit, and destination country for adults and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. [1] Domestically, most victims are impoverished women and children enticed from rural parts of the country to metropolitan areas by family members or newspaper ...
The Scout Association of Jamaica, the national Scouting organisation of Jamaica, was founded in 1910, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1963. The coeducational Scout Association of Jamaica has 2,539 members in 18 districts as of 2011. In 1952, The First Caribbean Jamboree was held in Jamaica.