Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine from Central and South
America to North America and Europe; illicit cultivation of cannabis;
government has an active cannabis eradication program
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.2 billion;
other countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $1.6
billion
Currency: 1 Jamaican dollar (J$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Jamaican dollars (J$) per US$1 - 33.195 (December 1994), 33.986 (1994), 24.949 (1993), 22.960 (1992), 12.116 (1991), 7.184 (1990)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
@Jamaica:Transportation
Railroads: total: 370 km standard gauge: 370 km 1.435-m gauge
Highways: total: 18,200 km paved: 12,600 km unpaved: gravel 3,200 km; improved earth 2,400 km
Pipelines: petroleum products 10 km
Ports: Alligator Pond, Discovery Bay, Kingston, Montego Bay, Ocho
Rios, Port Antonio, Longs Wharf, Rocky Point