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The ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships (better known as Champs) is an annual Jamaican high school track and field meet held by Jamaica's Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association. The five day event, held during the last week before Easter in Kingston , has been considered a proving ground for many Jamaican athletes.
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]
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Netball is the number one women's sport and the number one team sport in Jamaica, and the majority of the schools in Jamaica participate. [1] Netball receives full media coverage on television, radio and in newspapers but does not get as much coverage as less successful team sports such as football and cricket. [2]
Jamaica competed at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from January 19 to February 1, 2024, This was Jamaica's second appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, having last competed in 2016. The Jamaican team consisted of three athletes (one man and two women) competing in two sports.
Jamaica, which had seen its poverty rate drop almost 20 percent over two decades, saw it increase by eight percent in a few years. The unemployment rate in Jamaica is approximately 6.0% (April 2022, Statistical Institute of Jamaica), with youth unemployment more than twice the national rate, albeit trending downwards (15%).
General minimum wage by territory, as of February 2023. This is a list of the official minimum wage rates of the 193 United Nations member states and former members of the United Nations, also including the following territories and states with limited recognition (Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, etc.) and other independent countries.
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 . A more precise study conducted by the local University of the West Indies - Jamaica's population is more accurately 76.3% African descent or Black, 15.1% Afro-European, 3.4% East Indian and Afro-East ...