title: 2019 in Jamaica
text: # 2019 in Jamaica
  
  Events in the year 2019 in Jamaica.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Elizabeth II
  * Governor-General: Patrick Allen
  * Prime Minister: Andrew Holness
  * Chief Justice: Zaila McCalla
  
  ## Events
  
  ### Politics
  
  * April 4 – 2019 Portland Eastern by-election
  
  ### Sports
  
  * 26 July to 11 August – Jamaica competed in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 2 February –Lynvale Bloomfield (b. 1959).
  * 11 February – Delroy Poyser, long jumper (b. 1962).
  * 8 March – Cynthia Thompson, Olympic sprinter (b. 1922).
  