![]() ![]() The list of musical legends stretches further than Jamaica’s 145 miles – Millie Small, Alton Ellis, Phyllis Dillon, John Holt, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, Dennis Brown, Prince Buster, The Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals, Black Uhuru, Third World, Inner Circle, Sly and Robbie, Ernie Ranglin, Monty Alexander, Byron Lee, Brigadier Jerry, Shabba Ranks, Super Cat, Diana King, Shaggy, Sean Paul, Bounty, Beenie and many, many more. Jamaican musicians hail from across the island, but Kingston is the mecca they gravitate to in search of stardom. In tribute to a global cultural footprint, Kingston was officially designated as a United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Creative City of Music on December 11, 2015. Home to one of Jamaica’s two international airports, Kingston proudly overlooks the world’s seventh largest natural harbour as it basks beneath the backdrop of the majestic Blue Mountains. ![]() It is the island’s political, financial, commercial, industrial, culinary and cultural capital, and a population of some 937,700, makes it the largest English- speaking city south of Miami – if Miami can still be called English-speaking. Today, an exuberantly expanded Kingston remains capital as well as heartbeat. The current head of government and Prime Minister of Jamaica is the Most Hon. Like Canada and Australia, it remains part of the Commonwealth, with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as official head of state, represented locally by a Governor General, currently Sir Patrick Allen. Jamaica became independent on August 6, 1962. Legendary Jamaican-based pirates like Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, and Calico Jack still inspire books and movies today. Jamaica was also the global pirate headquarters, so swashbuckling Port Royal became the infamous wickedest and richest city on earth, foreshadowing Jamaica’s illustrious future in tourism. Bog Walk Gorgeįrom the forced labour of trafficked African slaves, Jamaica was the world’s largest sugar and rum producer and thus the most valuable colony in the British Empire. ![]() Indigenous Tainos called the island ‘ Xaymaca,’ meaning “Land of Wood and Water” or “Land of Springs.” Re-named ‘Santiago’ when Christopher Columbus “discovered” it and made it a Spanish possession in 1492, it then became the English colony ‘Jamaica,’ from the original Taino name, after an English fleet invaded to oust the Spanish in 1655. Archived publications from 1969 to 2021.Inflation Expectations, Credit Conditions.Payment System Data Bulletins, Remittances Bulletins.Macroprudential Policy Reports, Quarterly Monetary Policy Reports, QMPR Presentations, Balance of Payments, RTGS Fee Schedules.BOJ Annual Reports, Financial Stability Reports.Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS).Protected Disclosures Procedures (BOJ as a Prescribed Person).Financial System Stability Committee (FSSC).Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) - JAM-DEX.National Financial Inclusion Technical Secretariat.AML/CFT/CFP Policy and Operating Procedures. ![]()
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