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Entry #55 OSINT World Series
Open Data Portals
Jamaica Open Data — Official · Free. Central government catalog covering agriculture, economy, education, environment, finance, health, infrastructure, society, technology, and transport.
Statistical Institute of Jamaica—STATIN — Official · Free. Jamaica’s principal source for population, labour, economic, trade, price, demographic, and social statistics.
Jamaica 2022 Population and Housing Census — Census reports, parish-level statistics, population tables, housing data, and demographic publications.
STATIN Search and Publications Archive — Search historical statistical releases, reports, tables, surveys, and publications.
PIOJ JamStats — Development indicators maintained by the Planning Institute of Jamaica, covering national and sector-level outcomes.
PIOJ Publications and Reports — Economic and Social Survey of Jamaica material, development reports, policy studies, and economic updates.
Bank of Jamaica Statistics — Official · Free. Monetary, banking, inflation, exchange-rate, balance-of-payments, financial-sector, and payment-system data.
BOJ Foreign-Exchange Rates and Volumes — Search and download historical foreign-exchange rates and market volumes.
Ministry of Finance General Government Data — Fiscal balances, revenue, expenditure, debt, and general-government financial tables.
Ministry of Finance Budget Resources — National budgets, estimates of expenditure, revenue measures, fiscal policy papers, and supporting documents.
Jamaica Customs Trade Statistics — Customs-based import, export, commodity, and trading-partner statistics.
STATIN International Merchandise Trade Statistics — Official merchandise-import and export data, including historical trade tables.
Observatory of Economic Complexity—Jamaica — Visualized Jamaican exports, imports, products, trading partners, and economic-complexity data.
World Bank WITS—Jamaica — Trade, tariff, market-access, product, and partner-country statistics.
WTO Jamaica Trade Profile — Tariffs, services, merchandise trade, trade-policy indicators, and WTO-related country information.
Company Registries
Companies Office of Jamaica Company Search — Official · Basic search free; documents may be paid. Search companies and business names. Advanced searches can identify records linked to directors, proprietors, shareholders, or company secretaries.
Companies Office of Jamaica — Company incorporation, annual returns, business-name registration, forms, fees, document requests, and corporate-services information.
National Security Interests in Personal Property Registry — Official · Public search. Search registered security interests over movable property, useful for investigating loans, collateral, and secured creditors.
Jamaica Stock Exchange Listed Companies — List of publicly traded companies with symbols, profiles, sectors, and related market information.
JSE Audited Financial Statements — Audited annual financial statements and disclosures submitted by listed companies.
JSE Quarterly Financial Statements — Quarterly company accounts and interim financial disclosures.
Financial Services Commission Regulated Entities and Individuals — Search or browse licensed securities, insurance, pension, investment, and related financial-sector entities and professionals.
Bank of Jamaica Deposit-Taking Institutions — Official information on licensed commercial banks, merchant banks, building societies, and other supervised institutions.
Licensed Microcredit Institutions — Bank of Jamaica’s list of institutions licensed under Jamaica’s microcredit regime.
Bank of Jamaica List of Cambios — Official list of authorized foreign-exchange cambios.
Department of Co-operatives and Friendly Societies — Regulator and registration authority for co-operatives, friendly societies, and charities.
Jamaica Special Economic Zone Registry — Official list of approved SEZ developers, occupants, and other special-economic-zone entities.
Cannabis Licensing Authority— Official list of approved cannabis cultivators, processors, retailers, transporters, and research licensees.
Jamaica Intellectual Property Office Search — Search Jamaican trademarks, patents, industrial designs, owners, applicants, and related intellectual-property records. (Use VPN to access)
OpenCorporates—Jamaica Register Information — Third-party. International company database with Jamaican records sourced from the Companies Office; verify important findings against the official register.
Land & Property Records
Jamaica’s principal online land system is eLand Jamaica. Basic mapping and title-reference information can be free, while certificates of title, plans, caveats, instruments, and other documents generally require payment.
eLand Jamaica — Official · Mixed free/paid access. Search and purchase certificates of title, deposited plans, strata plans, caveats, enclosure plans, and registered instruments.
eLand Jamaica Interactive Map — Search spatially by location, road, parcel, valuation number, or title reference.
NLA Valuation Roll Report — Property-valuation information that may include title references, ownership or possession information, land use, and assessed value.
National Land Agency General Searches — Guidance on land-title, instrument, caveat, plan, and related official searches, including applicable fees.
NLA Document Search — Request official or certified land documents; some services require a deposit account or payment.
JAMPROP Property Sales Database — Official · Subscription/paid. Search recorded Jamaican property-sale transactions and market-comparison information.
Property Tax Query — Official property-tax account and valuation-number query service.
NEPA Environmental Impact Assessments — Environmental-impact studies and supporting records for major development proposals.
Jamaica Geodetic Control Point Search — Search survey-control monuments and coordinates used for cadastral and engineering work.
NLA Document Tracking — Track the processing status of documents submitted to the National Land Agency.
Digital Submission of Survey Plans — Online survey-plan submission portal; primarily designed for authorized survey professionals.
Real Estate Board Public Register — Verify registered real-estate dealers, salespeople, and developers. It does not establish ownership of a particular property.
Conflict Resources
For Jamaica, this category is most useful for researching gang violence, organized crime, homicide, public-order operations, police conduct, states of emergency, and human-rights concerns rather than conventional battlefield conflict.
Jamaica Constabulary Force Crime Statistics — Current serious-crime reports and comparisons, including murder, shooting, robbery, rape, and break-in figures. The JCF warns that figures can change as investigations continue.
JCF Wanted Persons — Official police notices concerning people wanted in connection with crimes.
JCF Missing Persons — Official missing-person notices and identifying information released by police.
INDECOM Reports — Reports from the Independent Commission of Investigations on police shootings, deaths in custody, security-force conduct, and investigations.
Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency — Official information on organized-crime, corruption, financial-crime, trafficking, and major criminal investigations.
ACLED Jamaica — Political-violence, protest, riot, gang-violence, and public-order event data and analysis. Download access may require registration.
UNODC Data Portal — Internationally comparable homicide, criminal-justice, firearms, trafficking, prison, and organized-crime indicators.
InSight Crime—Jamaica — Reporting and analysis on Jamaican gangs, trafficking routes, homicide trends, states of emergency, and organized crime.
Global Organized Crime Index—Jamaica — Comparative assessment of criminal markets, criminal actors, resilience, governance, and law-enforcement capacity.
Jamaicans for Justice — Local civil-society organization covering policing, detention, children’s rights, justice reform, and state accountability.
Jamaicans for Justice Document Library — Reports, submissions, legal analysis, policy documents, and human-rights research.
OHCHR Jamaica Country Page — UN human-rights documents, treaty-body findings, recommendations, and country-related material.
CAPRI Report on Zones of Special Operations — Local policy research on the implementation and effects of Jamaica’s Zones of Special Operations.
CAPRI—Guns Out: The Splintering of Jamaica’s Gangs — Research on gang fragmentation, firearms, policing, and violence in Jamaica.
UNODC—Caribbean Gangs, Drugs, Firearms and Gang Networks — Regional report with substantial coverage of Jamaican gangs, firearms, trafficking, and organized violence.
Geospatial Resources and Maps
Jamaican official and regional resources
Government of Jamaica ArcGIS Portal — Search public web maps, dashboards, story maps, and geospatial applications produced by Jamaican agencies.
National Spatial Planning Information Technology Viewer — Land-use, planning, infrastructure, environmental, and development-related spatial information.
eLand Jamaica Interactive Map — Parcel, title-reference, valuation-number, address, and land-document searches.
ODPEM Maps — Disaster, emergency, hurricane, shelter, hazard, and risk-related maps from Jamaica’s disaster-management authority.
MonaGIS Hazard Online Map — Interactive Jamaican hazard mapping, including exposure to natural hazards and vulnerable locations.
Jamaica Mineral Information System — Interactive map of mineral resources, geology, quarrying, and related spatial information.
Mines and Geology Division — Geological maps, mining and quarry information, mineral data, publications, and technical resources.
Forestry Department GIS — Forest-cover, forest-reserve, watershed, and forestry-related spatial information.
Water Resources Authority Web Map — Hydrology, wells, aquifers, groundwater, rivers, water resources, and related environmental layers.
NEPA Protected Areas — Protected-area descriptions and maps for environmental and development investigations.
PIOJ GIS Maps — Development-planning and socioeconomic maps produced by the Planning Institute of Jamaica.
Electoral Commission Interactive Boundary Maps — Constituency, electoral-division, and polling-area maps.
National Works Agency GIS — Road, bridge, drainage, and transport-infrastructure mapping resources.
Open mapping and satellite imagery
Geofabrik Jamaica OpenStreetMap Downloads — Download Jamaica’s OpenStreetMap data in formats suitable for GIS analysis.
OpenStreetMap Export — Export streets, buildings, addresses, amenities, and other open map features for selected Jamaican areas.
HDX Jamaica Roads — Downloadable Humanitarian OpenStreetMap road-network data.
HDX Jamaica Health Facilities — Downloadable mapped health-facility locations.
Copernicus Browser — Browse, compare, create time series, and download Sentinel satellite imagery over Jamaica.
USGS EarthExplorer — Search Landsat, aerial, elevation, and other remote-sensing datasets by place, date, or coordinates.
NASA Worldview — Daily global satellite imagery useful for hurricanes, fires, smoke, flooding, dust, and environmental change.
Flight & Vessel Tracking
Aircraft and flights
Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority Aircraft Registry — Official · Free. Search Jamaican aircraft by registration mark, model, serial number, operator, owner or lessor, airworthiness status, and other fields; records can be exported.
Sangster International Airport Live Flights — Official arrivals and departures for Montego Bay.
Flightradar24 Jamaica Airports — Live and recent flight information for Jamaican airports. Some historical features require payment.
FlightAware—Norman Manley International Airport — Live and recent flight activity for Kingston’s main international airport.
FlightAware—Sangster International Airport — Live and recent flight activity for Montego Bay.
ADS-B Exchange — Unfiltered aircraft-tracking map with registration, transponder, altitude, route, and movement information where available.
OpenSky Network API — Programmatic aircraft-state and flight-data access; registration may improve access limits.
Ships and ports
Port Authority of Jamaica — Official port information, terminal material, maritime statistics, development documents, and port-sector notices.
Kingston Wharves Vessel Arrival Schedule — Official vessel-arrival information for Kingston Wharves.
Kingston Freeport Terminal Vessel Schedule — Official container-vessel and terminal schedule information.
Maritime Authority of Jamaica — Official maritime regulator, with ship-registration, seafarer, safety, legal, and industry information.
Jamaica Ship Registry — Requirements and information for ships registered under the Jamaican flag.
Maritime Jamaica Certificate Verification — Verify certain seafarer certificates or check application status.
MarineTraffic—Port of Kingston — Live AIS positions, vessel details, port calls, arrival estimates, and movement history; advanced history is paid.
VesselFinder—Port of Kingston — Vessel positions, port calls, expected arrivals, ship details, and photos.
Equasis — Free account required. Search ships and shipping companies, ownership and management records, inspections, classifications, and safety information.
IMO Global Integrated Shipping Information System — Official global search for ship and company particulars, IMO numbers, maritime-security information, and state-submitted records.
Global Fishing Watch Vessel Viewer — Free current and historical vessel-identity and activity information, especially valuable for fishing and maritime investigations.
People Search
Companies Office of Jamaica Company Search — Find company records associated with directors, shareholders, proprietors, and company secretaries.
Supreme Court of Jamaica Judgments — Search decisions by party name, case number, judge, year, neutral citation, or delivery date.
Court of Appeal Civil Judgments — Search appellate decisions involving individuals, companies, public bodies, estates, and civil disputes.
General Legal Council Practising Attorneys — Official list for verifying whether an attorney is authorized to practise.
Real Estate Board Public Register — Verify real-estate dealers, salespeople, and developers by name or registration details.
Professional Engineers Registration Board—Registered Engineers — Verify registered Jamaican engineers and professional specializations.
Architects Registration Board—Licensed Practitioners — Current practising-licence information for architects.
Dental Council of Jamaica Registered Dentists — Official dentist-registration information and published lists.
Electoral Commission—Members of Parliament — Names, constituencies, parties, and other information about elected MPs.
Electoral Commission Parliamentary Election Results — Historical candidate names, parties, constituencies, votes, and election results.
JCF Wanted Persons — Official police notices; a wanted notice is not a finding of guilt.
JCF Missing Persons — Official missing-person announcements and public appeals.
FindYello Jamaica — Jamaican business, professional, government-office, and selected residential directory listings.
Registrar General’s Department Online Services — Apply for official birth, marriage, death, adoption, and related civil-registration documents. This is not an unrestricted public people-search database.
FamilySearch—Jamaica Civil Registration, 1880–1999 — Search historical birth, marriage, and death records across Jamaica’s 14 parishes; a free account may be required.
Jamaican Family Search — Historical Jamaican genealogy transcriptions, directories, newspapers, estate records, monumental inscriptions, and family material.
Jamaica Archives and Records Department Holdings — Guide to government, legal, administrative, genealogical, and historical records held by Jamaica’s national archives.
National Library of Jamaica Digital Collections Search — Search photographs, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, books, posters, and other digitized historical records.
ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database — Search people, companies, intermediaries, jurisdictions, and addresses appearing in major offshore-data investigations. A match is not proof of wrongdoing.
OpenSanctions—Jamaica — Search Jamaican people and entities appearing in sanctions, politically exposed person, public-office, and related datasets. Verify all matches against primary sources.
Media Outlets
State-Owned, Public-Service, and Official Government Media
Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica—PBCJ — Jamaica’s public-service broadcaster and a statutory body under the government ministry responsible for information. It broadcasts parliamentary sittings and produces educational, cultural, public-affairs, and government-related programming.
Jamaica Information Service—JIS — An executive agency of the Government of Jamaica responsible for communicating government policies, programmes, projects, speeches, announcements, and public information through articles, radio, television, photography, and other media.
Independent and Privately Owned Media
Newspapers and Digital News
Jamaica Gleaner — Major privately operated national newspaper and digital news outlet covering politics, courts, crime, business, sports, commentary, and public affairs. It is published by The Gleaner Company (Media) Limited and forms part of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group.
Jamaica Star — Privately operated popular newspaper and digital outlet associated with the Gleaner. It focuses heavily on crime, courts, entertainment, community reporting, sports, and human-interest stories. It is also part of the RJRGLEANER media portfolio.
The Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica Star, Radio Jamaica News, and Television Jamaica are separate media brands but belong to the same RJRGLEANER Communications Group.
Jamaica Observer — Privately owned national newspaper and online news service covering national affairs, politics, crime, business, sports, lifestyle, entertainment, and Caribbean developments.
Our Today — Privately operated digital news outlet headquartered in Kingston. The publication describes itself as an independent digital news service and covers Jamaican, Caribbean, business, political, lifestyle, and international news.
Television, Radio, and Multimedia
Radio Jamaica News — Radio and digital news service covering national news, politics, business, crime, sports, and regional affairs. It belongs to the RJRGLEANER Communications Group.
Television Jamaica—TVJ — Privately operated commercial television network carrying news, current-affairs programmes, interviews, sports, entertainment, and national-event coverage. TVJ is also part of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group.
Nationwide News Network — Privately operated radio and digital newsroom with a strong emphasis on breaking news, political reporting, current affairs, interviews, analysis, and investigative reporting. The Broadcasting Commission lists Nationwide News Network Limited as the licensed operator.
CVM Television — Privately operated television and digital news outlet covering Jamaican news, politics, business, crime, sports, entertainment, and current affairs. CVM was acquired by VertiCast Media Group in 2022 and continues to operate as part of that private media group.
IRIE FM — Privately operated national radio station combining Jamaican news, sports, community affairs, current affairs, entertainment, reggae, and cultural programming. The licensed operator is Grove Broadcasting Company Limited.
Investigative Journalism
Dedicated Investigative Outlets
18 Degrees North Investigations — Independent investigative journalism publication led by Jamaican journalist Zahra Burton. It investigates Jamaican and Caribbean stories involving public expenditure, corruption, corporate activity, conflicts of interest, healthcare, political accountability, government contracts, and cross-border financial issues. Some investigations are available only to subscribers.
Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network—CIJN — Regional nonprofit investigative journalism network with strong Jamaican connections. It produces collaborative investigations into government corruption, corporations, climate change, human trafficking, transnational drug networks, organized crime, and other issues affecting Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.
Media Institute of the Caribbean — The Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) is a regional not-for-profit non-governmental organisation registered in Jamaica, with a branch in Trinidad and Tobago, charged with empowering Caribbean journalists and media leaders to contribute to the strengthening of Caribbean democracy through support for an innovative and independent media industry.
Media archives and ownership research
National Library of Jamaica Newspaper Collections — Guide to historical Jamaican newspapers held by the National Library.
Broadcasting Commission Licensees — Official list of radio and television licensees, principal officers, contact information, call signs, coverage, and frequencies, useful for researching media ownership.
International investigative databases
ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database — Search people, companies, intermediaries, jurisdictions, and addresses appearing in major offshore-data investigations. A match is not proof of wrongdoing.
OCCRP Aleph — Search company records, sanctions data, leaks, court records, procurement material, and investigative datasets; some collections require an approved account.
OpenSanctions—Jamaica — Search Jamaican people and entities appearing in sanctions, politically exposed person, public-office, and related datasets. Verify all matches against primary sources.
OFAC Sanctions List Search — Official U.S. search for sanctioned people, organizations, vessels, aircraft, aliases, and identifiers.
Transparency, government and legal research
Integrity Commission Quarterly Contract Awards — Searchable or downloadable public-contract award information, including contractors, procuring bodies, values, and award periods.
Contracts Entered Into by Parliamentarians — Integrity Commission information concerning contracts involving parliamentarians or connected interests.
Government of Jamaica Electronic Procurement — Public procurement opportunities, tender documents, awards, supplier material, and procurement notices.
Access to Information Unit — Official forms, legislation, guidance, reports, and appeal information for requesting Jamaican government records.
Integrity Commission Investigation Reports — Reports concerning corruption allegations, public officials, government entities, contracts, and potential misconduct.
Auditor General of Jamaica Reports — Financial, compliance, performance, information-technology, and special audits of government bodies and public expenditure.
Legal Information Portal of Jamaica — Search current and historical legislation, legal material, Gazette publications, and related Jamaican legal information.
Laws of Jamaica Library — Revised laws, subsidiary legislation, Acts of Parliament, Gazette supplements, extraordinary Gazettes, appointed-day notices, and repealed Acts.
Laws of Jamaica Search — Full-library search across Acts, regulations, subsidiary legislation, and Gazette material.
Parliament of Jamaica Bills and Acts — Bills, enacted legislation, parliamentary documents, and legislative material.
Parliamentary Committees, Reports and Minutes — Committee proceedings, reports, minutes, submissions, and oversight documents.
Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal—Public Bodies Tracker — Civil-society monitoring of governance and reporting compliance by Jamaican public bodies.
JAMP Legislative Tracker — Tracks selected legislation, parliamentary progress, delays, and governance commitments.
Cabinet-Approved Public-Sector Board Appointments — Official announcements of appointments to boards of public bodies.
Electoral Commission Campaign Financing — Campaign-finance rules, forms, disclosure material, guidance, and reports.
Electoral Commission Political-Party Registration — Registration requirements and official material concerning political parties.
Other OSINT toolkits
Bellingcat Online Investigation Toolkit — Curated tools for maps, satellite imagery, people and company research, archiving, transport tracking, and image/video verification.
GIJN OSINT Resources — Investigative-journalism guides and case studies covering open-source research, verification, geolocation, social media, and data investigations.
GIJN Fact-Checking and Verification Guide — Curated verification methods, tools, training, and reporting checklists.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine — Retrieve historical versions of websites or preserve a current page before it changes or disappears.
Google Fact Check Explorer — Search published fact checks by topic, person, claim, or image.
InVID-WeVerify Verification Plugin — Browser toolkit for extracting video keyframes, examining metadata, reverse-searching images, and verifying social-media content.
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