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From 1989 to 1993, Davies was the director-general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, while also working at the Ministry of Finance and Planning as Special Adviser to the minister. He represented Jamaica as a negotiator at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Marlene Patricia Malahoo Forte KC, MP, JP is a Jamaican politician. She has been the Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs since January 2022, [1] and was the Attorney General of Jamaica from 7 March 2016 to 10 January 2022.
The 2023–24 Jamaica Premier League was the 50th season of the top-tier football league in Jamaica.The season began on October 22, 2023, and concluded on May 19, 2024. [1] 14 teams competed in the league, with Mount Pleasant F.A. being the defending champions. [2]
Misir was born at Nuttall Hospital in St. Andrew, Jamaica. She first represented Jamaica as a junior equestrian. [4] In preparation for the Pan American Games at 16 years old, Misir suffered an accident where she fell from her horse and her skull and jaw were fractured. She needed a 6-month recovery to return to equestrian sport.
Daryl Vaz engendered some controversy over his dual United States/Jamaican nationality. His mother, Sonia, was born in Puerto Rico and thus is a United States citizen by birth, albeit also a Jamaican citizen, currently resident in Canada. In 2008 or 2009 he renounced his United States citizenship in order to remain active in Jamaican politics. [8]
Sandra Palmer. Sandra Marie Palmer (born on 4 August 1969) is a Jamaican entrepreneur. In 1997, she founded SSP APTEC, an information technology company, which later expanded with the opening of a branch in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2002. [1]
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 classified job postings for spa attendants, masseurs, or exotic dancers. [2]
Born in Annotto Bay, Jamaica, Ballentine moved to Kingston at the age of 12. He launched his deejay career with the Black Culture Sound System at age 14 as "Double Ugly". In 1980, he joined the Killamanjaro sound system, where he got the chance to learn from established deejays Super Cat and Early B, and released his debut single as "Uglyma