2013 in Jamaica

Events in the year 2013 in Jamaica.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Elizabeth II
• Governor-General: Patrick Allen
• Prime Minister: Portia Simpson-Miller
• Chief Justice: Zaila McCalla

Events

• 21 July – Murder of Dwayne Jones
• 11 September – At least one person is killed and several Jamaica Constabulary Force officers injured following a melee at the police lockup in the town of Mandeville.

Deaths

• 14 January – Neville Bonitto, 88, cricketer
• 3 April – Harry J, 67, music producer, studio owner and musician
• 10 April – Olive Lewin, 85, social anthropologist and musicologist
• 3 May – Cedric Brooks, 70, musician (The Skatalites)
• 15 June – Joseph Hibbert, 65, politician, MP for St. Andrew East Rural (2002–2011), Minister for Transport and Works
• 28 June – Fred Gibson, 101, Jamaican-born English cricketer
• 17 July – George Lyn, 81, politician, MP for North Central Clarendon (1993–2002)
• 26 July – Douglas Manley, 91, politician, MP for South Manchester (1972–1976)
• 11 September – Prince Jazzbo, 62, reggae DJ
• 9 October – Seymour Mullings, 82, politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister (1993–2001), Ambassador to the United States (2001–2004)
• 17 November – Herbert Gordon, 61, Jamaican footballer
• 2 December – Junior Murvin, 67, reggae singer ("Police and Thieves")
• 21 December – Richard Hart, 96, historian and politician

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