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The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 71% of the country's GDP. [16] Jamaica has natural resources and a climate conducive to agriculture and tourism. The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica's economy from sugar , and bananas .
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Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [14] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [19] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [8]
Breeds of cattle adapted to the tropics - Jamaica Hope, Jamaica Red and Jamaica Black, by Thomas Lecky. [3] A sorrel harvesting machine, by Oral and Allison Turner. The device is believed to be the first to automate the challenging task of separating the red calyces flesh from the seeds of the sorrel plant. [4] [5]
youtube-dl is a free and open source software tool for downloading video and audio from YouTube [3] and over 1,000 other video hosting websites. [4] It is released under the Unlicense software license. [5] As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. [6]
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica. 1 February – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that his government is willing to send troops to Haiti as part of a "multinational security assistance deployment". [2] 6 May – Coronation of Charles III as King of Jamaica and the other Commonwealth realms.
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean. The country had a population of 2,825,352 as of 2023, having the fourth largest population in the region. Jamaica's annual population growth rate stood at 0.08% in 2022. As of 2023, 68.9% of Jamaicans were Christians in 2011, predominantly Protestant.