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
- 15 June - Joseph Hibbert, 65, politician, MP for St. Andrew East Rural, 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
- 26 July - Douglas Manley, 91, politician, MP for South Manchester
- 11 September - Prince Jazzbo, 62, reggae DJ
- 9 October - Seymour Mullings, 82, politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister, Ambassador to the United States
- 17 November - Herbert Gordon, 61, Jamaican footballer
- 2 December - Junior Murvin, 67, reggae singer
- 21 December - Richard Hart, 96, historian and politician