From: plm@reggae.bellcore.com (Paul L. Mowatt)
Subject: hangout.rutgers.edu - Jamaica
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Date: 8 Apr 92 18:30:01


hangout.rutger.edu is a Rutgers University information system.  It is
accessible by anyone on the internet.  Below is the transcript of session
that provides some as of 1990 facts on Jamaica, from the CIA World Fact Book.
There is information on all/most of the caribbean islands.
You can try accessing this database via telnet.

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Word (? for help): jamaica

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Country:  Jamaica
- Geography
Total area: 10,990 km2; land area: 10,830 km2
 
Comparative area: slightly smaller than Connecticut
 
Land boundaries: none
 
Coastline: 1,022 km
 
Maritime claims:
 
Territorial sea: 12 nm
 
Climate: tropical; hot, humid; temperate interior
 
Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
 
Natural resources: bauxite, gypsum, limestone
 
Land use: 19% arable land; 6% permanent crops; 18% meadows and pastures;
forest and woodland; 29% other; includes 3% irrigated
 
Environment: subject to hurricanes (especially July to November);
deforestation; water pollution
 
Note: strategic location between Cayman Trench and Jamaica
Channel, the main sea lanes for Panama Canal
 
- People
Population: 2,441,396 (July 1990), growth rate 0.6% (1990)
 
Birth rate: 21 births/1,000 population (1990)
 
Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1990)
 
Net migration rate: - 10 migrants/1,000 population (1990)
 
Infant mortality rate: 16 deaths/1,000 live births (1990)
 
Life expectancy at birth: 75 years male, 79 years female (1990)
 
Total fertility rate: 2.3 children born/woman (1990)
 
Nationality: noun--Jamaican(s); adjective--Jamaican
 
Ethnic divisions: 76.3% African, 15.1% Afro-European, 3.4% East Indian and
Afro-East Indian, 3.2% white, 1.2% Chinese and Afro-Chinese, 0.8% other
 
Religion: predominantly Protestant (including Anglican and Baptist), some
Roman Catholic, some spiritualist cults
 
Language: English, Creole
 
Literacy: 74%
 
Labor force: 728,700; 32% agriculture, 28% industry and commerce,
27% services, 13% government; shortage of technical and managerial personnel
(1984)
 
Organized labor: 25% of labor force (1989)
 
- Government
Long-form name: none
 
Type: parliamentary democracy
 
Capital: Kingston
 
Administrative divisions: 14 parishes; Clarendon, Hanover, Kingston,
Manchester, Portland, Saint Andrew, Saint Ann, Saint Catherine, Saint
Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Mary, Saint Thomas, Trelawny, Westmoreland
 
Independence: 6 August 1962 (from UK)
 
Constitution: 6 August 1962
 
Legal system: based on English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ
jurisdiction
 
National holiday: Independence Day (first Monday in August), 6 August 1990
 
Executive branch: British monarch, governor general, prime minister,
Cabinet
 
Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament consists of an upper house
or Senate and a lower house or House of Representatives
 
Judicial branch: Supreme Court
 
Leaders:
Chief of State--Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented
by Governor General Sir Florizel A. GLASSPOLE (since 2 March 1973);
 
Head of Government--Prime Minister Michael MANLEY (since 9 February 1989)
 
Political parties and leaders: People's National Party (PNP), Michael
Manley; Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), Edward Seaga; Workers' Party of Jamaica
(WPJ), Trevor Munroe
 
Suffrage: universal at age 18
 
Elections:
House of Representatives--last held 9 February 1989 (next to be held
by February 1994);
results--PNP 57%, JLP 43%;
seats--(60 total) PNP 45, JLP 15
 
Communists: Workers' Party of Jamaica (Marxist-Leninist)
 
Other political or pressure groups:
Rastafarians (black religious/racial cultists, pan-Africanists)
 
Member of: ACP, CARICOM, CCC, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA,
IBA, IBRD, ICAO, ICO, IDB--Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF,IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ISO, ITU, NAM, OAS, PAHO, SELA, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU,
WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
 
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Keith JOHNSON; Chancery at
Suite 355, 1850 K Street NW, Washington DC 20006; telephone (202) 452-0660;
there are Jamaican Consulates General in Miami and New York;
US--Ambassador Glen HOLDEN; Embassy at 3rd Floor, Jamaica Mutual Life
Center, 2 Oxford Road, Kingston; telephone p809o 929-4850
 
Flag: diagonal yellow cross divides the flag into four triangles--green
(top and bottom) and black (hoist side and fly side)
 
- Economy
Overview: The economy is based on sugar, bauxite, and tourism.
In 1985 it suffered a setback with the closure of some facilities in the
bauxite and alumina industry, a major source of hard currency earnings. Since
1986 an economic recovery has been under way. In 1987 conditions began to
improve for the bauxite and alumina industry because of increases in world metalprices. The recovery has also been supported by growth in the manufacturing and
tourism sectors. In September 1988, Hurricane Gilbert inflicted severe
damage on crops and the electric power system, a sharp but temporary
setback to the economy. By October 1989 the economic recovery from the
hurricane was largely complete and real growth was up about 3% for 1989.
 
GDP: $3.8 billion, per capita $1,529; real growth rate 3.0% (1989
est.)
 
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15% (1989)
 
Unemployment rate: 18.7% (1988)
 
Budget: revenues $1.1 billion; expenditures $1.5 billion, including
capital expenditures of $NA (FY88 est.)
 
Exports: $948 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);
commodities--bauxite, alumina, sugar, bananas;
partners--US 40%, UK, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway
 
Imports: $1.6 billion (c.i.f., 1989 est.); commodities--petroleum,
machinery, food, consumer goods, construction goods; partners--US 46%,
UK, Venezuela, Canada, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago
 
External debt: $4.4 billion (1989 est.)
 
Industrial production: growth rate 3% (1989 est.)
 
Electricity: 1,437,000 kW capacity; 2,390 million kWh produced,
960 kWh per capita (1989)
 
Industries: tourism, bauxite mining, textiles, food processing,
light manufactures
 
Agriculture: accounts for about 9% of GDP, one-third of work force, and
17% of exports; commercial crops--sugarcane, bananas, coffee, citrus, potatoes,
and vegetables; livestock and livestock products include poultry, goats, milk;
not self-sufficient in grain, meat, and dairy products
 
Illicit drugs: illicit cultivation of cannabis has decreased, with
production shifting from large to small plots and nurseries to evade
aerial detection and eradication
 
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $1.1 billion; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $1.2 billion;
OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $27 million; Communist countries (1974-88),
$349 million
 
Currency: Jamaican dollar (plural--dollars);
1 Jamaican dollar (J$) = 100 cents
 
Exchange rates: Jamaican dollars (J$) per US$1--6.5013 (January 1990),
5.7446 (1989), 5.4886 (1988), 5.4867 (1987), 5.4778 (1986), 5.5586 (1985)
 
Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
 
- Communications
Railroads: 370 km, all 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track
 
Highways: 18,200 km total; 12,600 km paved, 3,200 km gravel, 2,400 km
improved earth
 
Pipelines: refined products, 10 km
 
Ports: Kingston, Montego Bay
 
Merchant marine: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 13,048 GRT/21,412
DWT; includes 1 cargo, 1 container, 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 1 petroleum, oils,and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 bulk
 
Civil air: 6 major transport aircraft
 
Airports: 41 total, 25 usable; 14 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 2 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m
 
Telecommunications: fully automatic domestic telephone network;
127,000 telephones; stations--10 AM, 17 FM, 8 TV; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
earth stations; 3 coaxial submarine cables
 
- Defense Forces
Branches: Jamaica Defense Force (includes Coast Guard and Air Wing)
 
Military manpower: males 15-49, 620,400; 440,967 fit for military service;
no conscription; 27,014 reach minimum volunteer age (18) annually
 
Defense expenditures: 1.1% of GDP (1987)

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