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Hurricane Elsa downgrades to a Tropical Storm and heads towards the Dominican Republic and Haiti followed by Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and the U.S. state of Florida. Heavy rains and high winds are expected.
2021-07-3

Hurricane Matthew, at Category 4 strength with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km-h), temporarily stalls as it heads towards Jamaica and Haiti. Weather forecasters expect tropical storm conditions today with landfall tomorrow. Further, they expect rainfall of 20 inches, with up to 40 inches in some parts of southern Haiti.
2016-10-2

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.
2016-01-30

Hurricane Sandy heads towards The Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba and Jamaica.
2012-10-25

Jamaican "drug lord" Christopher "Dudus" Coke is sentenced to 23 years in a U.S. prison.
2012-06-8

The opposition People's National Party wins a majority in the Jamaican general election, with former Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller set to regain office.
2011-12-30

Christopher Coke, sent to United States territory by Jamaica, pleads not guilty to United States charges of drug smuggling at a federal court in New York and, in his first public comments since August, says he took the decision to be extradited "in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica".
2010-06-25

The death toll in the recent violence in Jamaica jumps to 73, and 44 in west Kingston alone.
2010-05-27

Jamaican police arrest more than 500 people after an unsuccessful attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin in Kingston, the capital, results in violence that leaves at least 44 people dead.
2010-05-26

Kenya deports to Gambia a radical Jamaican Muslim cleric who is on a global terror watch list.
2010-01-7