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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.
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The JCTU emerged from the Joint Trade Unions Research Development Centre (JTURDC) which was founded on 11 September 1980 by the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, the National Workers Union, the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers and the Trade Union Congress.
West Indies Associated States was the collective name for a number of islands in the Eastern Caribbean whose status changed from being British colonies to states in free association with the United Kingdom in 1967. [1] These states were Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent.
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...
For international dialing to Jamaica, the country code is 1. For accessing international destinations from within Jamaica, the international call prefix is 011. Calls from Jamaica to other NANP nations, such as the U.S. and Canada, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Jamaica has a fully digital telephone communication system. [1]
The Open Campus was established to improve services to the non-campus territories. [4] [5] It brought together several existing UWI units, namely the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC), the School of Continuing Studies (originally the Extra Mural Department), the Tertiary Level Institutions Unit, and the Office of the Board for Non-Campus Countries & Distance ...
(National number 43, then changed to 7D, as 42 or 43) Bermuda: 809-xxx-xxxx (National number 29, then changed to 7D, as 23 or 29) British Virgin Islands: 809-49x-xxxx (National number 49) Carriacou: 809-44x-xxxx: The Cayman Islands: 809-94x-xxxx (National number 94) The Commonwealth of Dominica: 809-44x-xxxx (National number 44 shared with Grenada)