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Jamaica

Caribbean island nation; independent from Britain in 1962, a Commonwealth realm.

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Moments from the Chronicle

• 1962 Missile Crisis — and independence The world holds its breath in October; Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago become independent.

Further reading

• A Concise History of Jamaica Kenneth Morgan Dr · 1973

  An accessible, up-to-date single-volume history of Jamaica from settlement to nationhood, in print from Cambridge (ISBN 9781108459181).

• A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present Jan Rogozinski · 1992

  Regional sweep situating Jamaica's 1962 independence within five centuries of Caribbean history.

• A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James · 2014 · fiction

  Centers on 1970s Kingston (the attempted assassination of Bob Marley) and its aftermath, squarely in independent Jamaica's era.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Jamaica
• Jamaica Independence Day — National Today (2026); Jamaica — Britannica