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  2. 2024 in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    4 July – Category 4 Hurricane Beryl causes a six- to nine-feet storm surge and fierce winds along Jamaica's southern coast, killing at least one person there before tracking to the Cayman Islands. [4] 26 July–11 August – Jamaica at the 2024 Summer Olympics [5]

  3. Emancipation Park (Kingston, Jamaica) - Wikipedia

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    Emancipation Park is a public park in Kingston, Jamaica.. The park is in New Kingston, opened on 31 July 2002, the day before Emancipation Day.Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's address to open the park he acknowledged that the park is a commemoration of the end of slavery in the British Empire and French Caribbean slavery.

  4. Public holidays in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Ash Wednesday, Between 4 February and 10 March (public holiday) [1] Good Friday, Friday of Holy Week, late March or early April(public holiday) [1] Easter Monday, Monday after Easter(public holiday) [1] Labour Day, 23 May (public holiday) People participate in community improvement projects. [2] Emancipation Day, 1 August (public holiday ...

  5. List of islands of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Pellen Island Morant Cays. This is a list of islands of Jamaica.There are about 49 islands in the island nation of Jamaica.All islands are in the Caribbean Sea.The island of Jamaica has an area of 10,990 km 2 (4,240 sq mi) and is the third largest island in the Caribbean, after Cuba and Hispaniola.

  6. List of cities and towns in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...

  7. Cockpit Country - Wikipedia

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    Cockpit Country Forest Reserve was designated in 1950, and covers an area of 221.75 km 2. [9] In 1979 an unpublished paper proposed preserving the area as a National Park. [ 10 ] In 1994 the geographer Alan Eyre [ 11 ] proposed that the Cockpit Country be designated as a World Heritage Site to preserve its environment.

  8. Newcastle, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Newcastle is a settlement in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Formerly a military hill station for the British Army it is now a training centre for the Jamaica Defence Force . The Blue Mountain and John Crow Mountain National Park in which Newcastle is located was established in 1992.

  9. Independence of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.

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