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Map of diplomatic missions in Jamaica. This is a list of diplomatic missions in Jamaica. ... This page was last edited on 13 January 2025, at 18:33 (UTC).
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This is a list of diplomatic missions of Jamaica. Jamaica has a modest number of diplomatic missions in the world, even within its own peripheral region of the Caribbean, and they are maintained under the umbrella of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.
After achieving independence from the United Kingdom in August 1962, Jamaica immediately established its foreign ministry, then known as the Ministry of External Affairs. In 1976, the government changed the ministry's name to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and eventually added "and Foreign Trade" sometime later to reflect the full scope of its mission.
The ministries of Jamaica are created at the discretion of the prime minister of Jamaica to carry out the functions of government. As of 2016, the prime minister is Andrew Holness . The agencies of Jamaica are created by both parliamentary law and assigned to ministers to oversee.
Pages in category "Ministries and agencies of the government of Jamaica" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Although capped at 66,000 per year, the H-2B numerical cap was increased in 2017 by then United States Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.These visas were made available only to American businesses which attested that they would likely suffer irreparable harm without the ability to employ all the H-2B workers requested in their original petition.
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