2024 in Jamaica

Events in the year 2024 in Jamaica.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Charles III
 * Governor-General: Patrick Allen
 * Prime Minister: Andrew Holness
 * Chief Justice: Bryan Sykes

Events

 * February 28 – 2024 Jamaican local elections
 * March 31 – Haitian crisis: Canada deploys 70 members of its armed forces to Jamaica to train peacekeepers for a future intervention in Haiti.
 * April 23 – Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine.
 * 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.
 * 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.

Scheduled

 * 26 July–11 August – Jamaica at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Holidays
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 * 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.
 * 3 February – Aston "Family Man" Barrett, 77, musician (Bob Marley and the Wailers).
 * 25 February – Peter "Peetah" Morgan, 46, reggae singer (Morgan Heritage).
 * 4 March – B. B. Seaton, 79, singer (The Gaylads), songwriter and record producer.