Jamaica

20 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Jamaica, 2012 CE to 2024 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

21st century

20 entries, 2012 CE to 2024 CE

20126 January – Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller announces that the country is to become a republic, with plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and the Jamaican monarchy in general.Jamaica source
201211 August – Usain Bolt wins a third gold medal of the 2012 Olympics as he anchors Jamaica's sprint relay team to a world record.Jamaica source
20128 June – Jamaican "drug lord" Christopher "Dudus" Coke is sentenced to 23 years in a U.S. prison.Jamaica source
201225 October – Hurricane Sandy affects Jamaica.Jamaica source
20125 August – At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, In athletics, sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the 100 metres final.Jamaica source
201216 January – Joe Bygraves, 80, Jamaican born British former British Empire heavyweight champion boxer.Jamaica source
201321 July – Murder of Dwayne JonesJamaica source
20141 May – The first-ever outbreak of chikungunya in the Caribbean reaches epidemic levels.Jamaica source
201418 November – Jamaica win the 2014 Caribbean Cup defeating Trinidad and Tobago in the final following a penalty shootout.Jamaica source
201425 September – A privately owned Socata TBM-900 (flight number N900KN) from the US flies without a conscious pilot for a thousand miles after a suspected cabin depressurization (see also) and crashes 14 miles off the coast of northeastern Jamaica.Jamaica source
2015February – The Ganja Law, or Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015, was passed by Jamaica's Houses of Parliament.Jamaica source
2015Air Jamaica, national airline of Jamaica, ceased all operations.Jamaica source
201625 February – Voters in Jamaica go to the polls for a general election, with the Jamaican Labour Party, led by Andrew Holness, winning a narrow victory.Jamaica source
20161 May – Two missionaries from the United States are found slain in separate areas of rural St. Mary parish. Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols both worked for a Pennsylvania-based Christian charity called Teams for Medical Missions.Jamaica source
201630 January – Jamaican health officials confirm the country's first case of the Zika virus in a 4-year-old child who recently returned from a trip to Texas.Jamaica source
20162 October – Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman.Jamaica source
201926 July to 11 August – Jamaica competed in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, PeruJamaica source
20215 February – Drought, increases in local demand, and a drop in the number of farmers all contribute to a marijuana shortage. The COVID-19 pandemic and related curfew means that farmers have a difficult time in irrigating their fields.Jamaica source
20231 February – Jamaica implements the Road Traffic Act 2018 and a digitised Traffic Ticket Management System; pre-2018 tickets are nullified, and points for later tickets are expunged if paid.Jamaica source
2024April 23 – Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine.Jamaica source