Bob Marley assassination attempt a JLP gunman, was contracted by the CIA to organize the Marley shooting and that Lester Coke, aka Jim Brown, led the charge on Hope Road. Don Taylor, Marley’s manager, claimed that both he and Marley were present at a ghetto court in which the gunmen who shot Marley were tried and executed. According to Taylor, before one of the shooters was killed, he admitted the job was done for the CIA in exchange for cocaine and guns. Bob Marley assassination attempt Michael Manley, son of former Prime Minister Norman Manley, was elected Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1972. To
Athletics in Jamaica former Trinidad sprinter Ato Boldon is also Jamaican. The parents of high jumper Dalton Grant, European and Commonwealth gold medallist and triple Olympian, were both born in Jamaica, in Kingston and St. Thomas respectively. Japanese sprinter Asuka Cambridge, who competed in the semi-finals for the 100 meter race in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, was born in Jamaica to a Jamaican father and Japanese mother. Denise Lewis(2001) Personal Best London: Century Athletics in Jamaica This article is about the athletics in Jamaica from the early 20th century to the present. In 80 years, Jamaica has won 42 Commonwealth Golds, 14