BASIC FACTS

Located in the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica is an island country and is the third largest Caribbean island after Cuba and Hispaniola.  Jamaica is a parliamentary democracy under constitutional monarchy that gained its independence in 1962. 

Capital: Kingston

Jamaica does not have any operational nuclear power plants. 

Jamaica is the only country in the Caribbean that operates a nuclear research reactor. The 20 kW SLOWPOKE reactor is part of West Indies University and is used for activation analysis, geochronology, education & training.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• • • • • Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1970
        • Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1969
          • Ratified in 1970
        • Succeeded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1970
        • Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1997
          • Ratified in 2000
        • Acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1975
        • Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
          • Ratified in 2001
        • Signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967
          • Ratified in 1970
        • Signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
          • Ratified in 1991
        • Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
          • Ratified in 1986
        • Signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967
          • Ratified in 1969
        • Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
          • Ratified in 2014
        • Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
          • Ratified in 1998
        • Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2008
        • Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2009
        • Signed the Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1997
        • Signed the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2006
          • Ratified in 2013
        • Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2005
          • Accepted the 2005 CPPNM Amendment in 2014
        • Signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017

REGIONAL GROUPS

• • • • • Member of the G-77
        • Member of the Latin America and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
        • Member of the Organization of American States (OAS)
        • Member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)
        • Member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• • • • • Chair of the UN First Committee in 2014
        • Member of the UNSC in 2000/2001

LINKS

Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament