30 January –
Jamaican health officials confirm the country's first case of the
Zika virus in a 4-year-old child who recently returned from a trip to
Texas.[1]
1 May – Two
missionaries from the
United States are found slain in separate areas of rural
St. Mary parish. Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols both worked for a
Pennsylvania-based Christian charity called Teams for Medical Missions.[3]
30 September –
Hurricane Matthew becomes a category-5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds up to 160 mph, the strongest hurricane to form over the
Caribbean Sea since
Hurricane Felix in 2007.[4]
2 October – Heavy rains from
Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench
Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman.[5]
9 April –
Derrick Rochester, politician and trade unionist, MP for South East St Elizabeth (1972–1980, 1989–2002), member of the Senate (1980–1983). (b. 1940)[10]
19 April –
Lord Tanamo, ska and mento musician (b. 1934).[11]
30 January –
Jamaican health officials confirm the country's first case of the
Zika virus in a 4-year-old child who recently returned from a trip to
Texas.[1]
1 May – Two
missionaries from the
United States are found slain in separate areas of rural
St. Mary parish. Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols both worked for a
Pennsylvania-based Christian charity called Teams for Medical Missions.[3]
30 September –
Hurricane Matthew becomes a category-5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds up to 160 mph, the strongest hurricane to form over the
Caribbean Sea since
Hurricane Felix in 2007.[4]
2 October – Heavy rains from
Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench
Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman.[5]
9 April –
Derrick Rochester, politician and trade unionist, MP for South East St Elizabeth (1972–1980, 1989–2002), member of the Senate (1980–1983). (b. 1940)[10]
19 April –
Lord Tanamo, ska and mento musician (b. 1934).[11]