Official website of the Houses of Parliament of Jamaica consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Standing orders and meeting schedules for both houses can be viewed on the site. Publications including full text acts back to 2009, regulations from 2010, green papers and ministry papers are also given along with various committee reports.
This is the official website of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), a government agency responsible for producing and disseminating information for the public about the Government of Jamaica. The website provides information about the history of Jamaica, as well as explanations of the roles and structure of the Jamaican Government, including details of the Governor-General, Prime Minister and other Government Ministers.
This is the official site of the Government of Jamaica Cabinet Office, which supports the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Jamaica. The website contains information explaining the function and structure of the Cabinet Office, in addition to information about the role of the Cabinet more broadly. A subsection of the website details the Cabinet Office’s areas of responsibility, of which the three main areas are modernisation, legislation and policies.
This page of the Jamaican Ministry of Justice website provides information on the court system of Jamaica. There are contact details given for all Jamaican courts as well as links to the websites of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Full text (PDF) copies of the Civil Procedure Rules and the Court of Appeal Rules are also provided on the site.
Official Website of the Ministry of Justice in Jamaica. The site provides background information, an organisation chart and contact details for the different agencies and departments of the Ministry including the Administrator-General's Department, the Dispute Resolution Foundation and the Legal Aid Council. There is a guide to the Jamaican court system and an online copy of the most recent annual Court Report. The Laws of Jamaica can also be searched or browsed on the site.
The official website of the Supreme Court of Jamaica provides free access to Supreme Court and Appeal Court judgments in PDF format back to 1997. A small number of Jamaican acts and a collection of online civil procedure forms are also made available in full as PDF documents. Background information about plans to computerise the Jamaican courts and details of the court reporting training programme are also given on the website. There is a page of links to other Jamaican government and legal websites.
ISA was formed in 1994 and is an "autonomous international organization established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The principal function of the Authority is to regulate deep seabed mining.
Web pages of the Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) a voluntary body representing Jamaican attorneys-at-law. The site includes brief background information about the JBA and its sub-committees, a news and events page and a list of related web links. There is also joining information and a form to download.
