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Jamaica is a major transit point for cocaine en route to the United States and is also a key source of marijuana and marijuana derivative products for the Americas. During 2006, the Government of Jamaica seized narcotics destined for the United States, arrested key traffickers and criminal gang leaders, and dismantled their organizations ...
On 23 May 2010, Jamaica security forces began searching for Coke after the United States requested his extradition, [143] and the leader of the criminal gang that attacked several police stations. The violence, which largely took place over 24–25 May, killed at least 73 civilians and wounded at least 35 others. [ 144 ]
This is a list of United States ambassadors to Jamaica. The U.S. Embassy is located in Jamaica 's capital, Kingston , and was established there on August 16, 1962. Ambassadors
Jamaica has diplomatic relations with many nations and is a member of the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Jamaica chairs the Working Group on smaller Economies. Jamaica is an active member of the Commonwealth of Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement (G-77). Jamaica is a beneficiary of the Lome Conventions, through which ...
Jamaicans achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962. [9] With 2.8 million people, [10] [11] Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas (after the United States and Canada), and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city.
United States portal This category is for bilateral relations between Jamaica and the United States . The main article for this category is Jamaica–United States relations .
It later caused massive flooding in the Northeast United States. ... Gilbert was the strongest, deadliest, costliest and most destructive storm in Jamaica's history. It killed 45 people and caused ...
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.