When Jamaica gained independence in 1962, the murder rate was 3.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world.[160] By 2009, the rate was 62 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest in the world.[161] Gang violence became a serious problem, with organised crime being ...
In these cases, the policy will terminate and 100% of the Basic Premiums paid up to date refunded to the Owner. Who has to make the diagnosis of a critical illness? Your own doctor or hospital doctor can make the diagnosis, but NCBIC reserves the right to ask for ...
If a customer has been paid the total permanent disability benefit (100% of Basic Sum Insured), and subsequently dies in a plane crash, is there a further benefit? If I have received a partial payment (e.g. loss of thumb), can I still surrender the policy at the end of the premium...
Jamaica’s government is burdened by a large foreign debt. The Jamaican dollar had a relatively stableexchange raterelative to the U.S. dollar until 1990, when it was floated and radically devalued. In the late 1990s a crisis in the financial sector obliged the government to intervene in the...
The Marvels – Rock Steady; 100% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ’71 Aretha Franklin cover w/ female vox U Roy – Chalice in the Palace; Big Blunts (Tommy Boy) ’75 Jr. Byles – Fever; Curly Locks (Heartbeat) 70’s cover of Little Willie John 311 – Who’s Got the Herb; Hempilation (...
100,000 were from the British Caribbean, including Jamaica. The second and weakest immigration wave occurred between the 1930s and the new immigration policy of the mid-1960s. The McCarran-Walter Act reaffirmed and upheld the quota bill, which discriminated against black immigrants and allowed ...
On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the c
“When I was looking around [Kingston throughout the weekend], I saw thatPeter ToshandBob Marleyhad museums,” the DJ tellsBillboardat the close of the music conference. “Well guess what? I created something, so therefore, I have a contribution myself and it would add to the Jamaican ...
(who topped the Hot 100 with “Close To You”) in 1991. Veteran deejay Super Cat has the distinction of flinging a bottle back into the audience during his clash with Ninjaman at Sting 1990, sparking widespread pandemonium. Raw, exhilarating, and sometimes volatile, stampedes,...
Andrew—and 100,000 in rural areas—were supplied with nutribuns or a cooked lunch (Gleaner, 10 September 1978).5 Initially this school feeding programme had a positive impact on the nutritional status of schoolchildren. However, effects diminished over time, largely because children were not ...