 Weekly Jamaica Courant / damaged front-page of issue no. 10 / via Gale | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
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| Founded | on or before 28 May 1718 |
| Ceased publication | in 1755 |
| City | Kingston |
| Country | Jamaica |
| OCLC number | 1069647674 |
The Weekly Jamaica Courant, published as The Weekly Jamaica Courant, with News Foreign and Domestick, was the first newspaper published in colonial Jamaica and the West Indies, and the second regular newspaper in the British settlements of the New World. It was first published in 1718 and was disestablished in 1755, being succeeded or replaced by the Jamaica Gazette or the St. Jago de la Vega Gazette.