2024 in Jamaica
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Events
February
- February 28 – 2024 Jamaican local elections
March
- March 31 – Haitian crisis: Canada deploys 70 members of its armed forces to Jamaica to train peacekeepers for a future intervention in Haiti.[1]
April
- April 23 – Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine.[2]
June
- 28 June – The Financial Action Task Force removes Jamaica from its "gray list" of countries not fully complying with measures to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.[3]
July
- 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]
August
- 11 August – Eight people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting in Clarendon Parish. Six people are arrested.[6]
September
- 10 September – The government announces that it would deploy 24 police and military personnel to Haiti to help in operations against the country's gang war.[7] The contingent arrives in Haiti on 12 September.[8]
October
- 21 October – Five people are killed in a shooting at a football match in Pleasant Heights, Kingston.[9]
November
- 25 November – Five people are killed in a shooting in Saint Andrew Parish.[10]
Holidays
Source:[11]
- 1 January - New Year's Day
- 14 February – Ash Wednesday
- 29 March – Good Friday
- 1 April - Easter Monday
- 23 May - Labour Day
- 1 August - Emancipation Day
- 6 August - Independence Day
- 21 October – National Heroes Day
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 26 December – Boxing Day
Deaths
- 19 January – Pluto Shervington, 73, reggae musician.[12]
- 3 February – Aston "Family Man" Barrett, 77, musician (Bob Marley and the Wailers).[13]
- 25 February – Peter "Peetah" Morgan, 46, reggae singer (Morgan Heritage).[14]
- 4 March – B. B. Seaton, 79, singer (The Gaylads), songwriter and record producer.[15]
- 19 April – Princess Lawes, 79, politician.[16]
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