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  2. American boys say they were beaten and starved at Jamaican ...

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    Boys at an American-run school for troubled teens in Jamaica were beaten by adult staff members, forced to exercise until they vomited and placed in stress positions for hours at a time, according ...

  3. Jamaican political conflict - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican political conflict. The Jamaican political conflict is a long-standing feud between right-wing and left-wing elements in the country, often exploding into violence. The Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have fought for control of the island for years and the rivalry has encouraged urban warfare in Kingston.

  4. Next Jamaican general election - Wikipedia

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    Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte said that Jamaica would transition to being a Republic before the next general election. Timeline. 21 September 2023 – Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert resigns as MP for Trelawny Southern. 26 February 2024 – local elections are held. Electoral system

  5. List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    Wars (1,000–9,999 combat-related deaths in current or previous year) The 16 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.

  6. 2020 Jamaican general election - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. General elections were held in Jamaica on Thursday, 3 September 2020 [1] to elect 63 members of Parliament. As the constitution stipulates a five-year parliamentary term, [2] the next elections were not expected until between 25 February and 10 June 2021.

  7. Politics of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom. As the head of state, King Charles III - on the advice of the Prime Minister ...

  8. Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Internet TLD. .jm. Jamaica ( / dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [11]

  9. Terrorism in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Terrorism in Jamaica. Terrorism in Jamaica is not a serious threat to the security of the state. Despite this, terrorism has occurred in Jamaica's past, such as during the CanJet Flight 918 hijacking, in which a Jamaican gunman tried to take over a passenger plane heading from Jamaica to Cuba (where they would then proceed to Halifax ). [1] [2]

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