2016 in Jamaica

Events in the year 2016 in Jamaica.

Incumbents

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.
25 February - Jamaican general election, 2016:
* Voters in Jamaica go to the polls for a general election, with the Jamaican Labour Party, led by Andrew Holness, winning a narrow victory.
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.
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.
2 October - Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman.

26 January - Barrington Watson, painter.
3 February - Mercedes Richards, astronomer and physicist.
27 February - Winston Blake, record producer.
23 March - Jimmy Riley, reggae musician
28 March - Yvette Francis-McBarnette, Jamaican-born American pediatrician
9 April - Derrick Rochester, politician and trade unionist, MP for South East St Elizabeth, member of the Senate.
19 April - Lord Tanamo, ska and mento musician.
6 June - Basil McKenzie, Olympic sprinter.
12 June - Michelle Cliff, Jamaican-born American writer
17 June - Sam Beaver King, 90, Jamaican-born British political activist, Mayor of Southwark, co-founder of the Notting Hill Carnival.
1 August - Louis Marriott, actor, director, writer and broadcaster.
3 August - Shakira Martin, 30, American-born Jamaican model and beauty queen, Miss Jamaica Universe .
21 August - Headley Bennett, saxophonist.
8 September - Prince Buster, ska musician .
29 September - Nora Dean, singer.
18 October - Bobby Ellis, trumpeter.
16 November - Alex Stewart, Olympic boxer .