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4 days ago · Constitutional framework. Under the Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council of 1962, by which the island achieved independence from the United Kingdom, Jamaica is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government. Citizens at least 18 years of age are eligible to vote.
4 days ago · constitutional monarchy with two legislative houses (Senate [21 1 ]; House of Representatives [63]) (Show more) Christopher Columbus, who first sighted the island in 1494, called it Santiago, but the original indigenous name of Jamaica, or Xaymaca, has persisted.
1 day ago · Antigua and Barbuda is a unitary parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. The current Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda was adopted upon independence on 1 November 1981.
4 days ago · constitutional monarchy with two legislative houses (Senate [21 1]; House of Representatives [63]) (Show more)
1 day ago · Jamaica ( / dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [11] Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south ...
1 day ago · Map of the Caribbean (Colombian islands in the western Caribbean Sea not shown) The word "Caribbean" has multiple uses. Its principal ones are geographical and political.
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22 hours ago · President Ruto spoke after demonstrators in Nairobi breached the Parliament to protest the passage of a bill raising taxes on many basics. At least five people were killed, according to Amnesty ...
