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Order of Jamaica

national order in the Jamaican honours system

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ2029246 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Order of Jamaica is the fifth of the six orders in the Jamaican honours system. The Order was established in 1969, and it is considered the equivalent of a knighthood in the British honours system.

Membership in the Order can be conferred upon any Jamaican citizen of outstanding distinction. Honorary membership in the Order can be conferred upon any distinguished citizen of a country other than Jamaica.

Members and Honorary Members are entitled to:

wear the insignia of the Order as a decoration,

be styled "The Honourable",

use the post-nominal letters "OJ" (for Members) or "OJ (Hon.)" (for Honorary Members).

The motto of the Order is "For a covenant of the people".

See also

List of recipients of the Order of Jamaica

References

Order of Jamaica. Office of the Prime Minister.

Editorial summary

“Order of Jamaica” enters the record as national order in the Jamaican honours system. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Order, Jamaica and national can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-07-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Order, Jamaica and national.
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Why this record matters

“Order of Jamaica” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Order, Jamaica and national provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2029246. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969.

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This entry incorporates text from “Order of Jamaica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.