Bolt guru Mills ends Jamaica role
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Usain Bolt's coach Glen Mills is to step down after 22 years in charge of the Jamaican athletics team.
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Jamaica beats Dominican Republic as honeymoon destination
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kingston.– Jamaica´s Sandals Resorts International was again voted the best Caribbean vacation destination, for the 10th consecutive
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Spanish could become Jamaica's second language
Page F30 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Read about it here in English and here in Spanish. It's basically the same idea as that being officially promoted in Trinidad & Tobago right now, which is another English-speaking country surrounded by Spanish; they intend to make the country bilingual by 2020. This map shows the location of both (Jamaica on the left, Trinidad & Tobago on the lower right). View Larger Map This is yet another...
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Local Names for the Birds of Jamaica
10,000 Birds (Free subscription) | yesterday
Preparing for a birding excursion can be tremendous fun if one actually enjoys studying field guides, trip reports, and various and sundry other resources. I personally love the process. Not only does the preliminary research heighten anticipation of an already exciting trip, but the payoff in the field when I have no problem recognizing a [...]
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Reggae in Jamaica is a Diverse Form of Music
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Few musical styles associate themselves so closely with a particular country as reggae music does to the island nation of Jamaica. Though it has only been around since the late 1960s, reggae was brought to world prominence by Bob Marley and the Wailers, though in its history there have been a multitude of talented performers.
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Air service agreement reached between Jamaica and Mexico
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Jamaica and Mexico have signed on to a new bilateral civil aviation agreement, which will allow for improved air service between the two countries.
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S&P downgrades credit card receivables, Air Jamaica, NCB
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
INTERNATIONAL RATING agency Standard & Poor's has followed its November 2 downgrade of Jamaica's long-term sovereign credit from CCC+ to CCC with parallel markdowns of the island's credit card merchant voucher receivables, as well as the long-term corporate credit...
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No plans yet, says ex-BOJ boss - Hopes Jamaica gets IMF deal, hurt by Golding's statement
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Derick Latibeaudiere is yet to make a decision about his future, following his firing last week as governor of Jamaica's central bank. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, he repeated his wish for an early conclusion of talks with the International Monetary Fund...
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Hablando español en Jamaica
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Some stories speak for themselves : Jamaica’s foreign minister says his country should adopt Spanish as a second official language to foster expanded trade and cooperation with its neighbors in the Caribbean and Central America. Growing ties between the Caribbean Community and Latin America, the Dominican Republic’s desire to join Caricom and the fact that Jamaica is surrounded by Spanish-speaking...
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How much is a governor worth?
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) President Wayne Chen has argued that Jamaica is not yet at the stage where public-sector executives can be paid comparable with their counterparts in the private sector."If we are going to align salaries of persons...
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Ageing, a challenge for health-care inflation - FSC
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Jamaica's ageing population is creating an increasing burden on the young and could potentially develop into another type of economic problem - health-care inflation - according to pensions regulator Rohan Barnett.The executive director of the Financial...
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Developer receptive to health care at former hospitals
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
From the Daily News : U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Carla Craig denied the request filed this week on behalf of the Village Management Group, the runner-up in the Oct. 16 auction for St. John's Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica. Village Management had said it hoped to place health care facilities at the sites. It also charged the bidding process was unfair. The court's decision was...
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The Blackout Instore Signings
Alter The Press! (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Blackout will be doing a bunch of instore signings later this month. Sun15 Nov Birmingham Pulp signing 5pm Mon 16 Nov Cardiff HMV signing 5pm Tue 17 Nov Leeds Crash Records signing 5pm Wed 18 Nov Glasgow Signing - Avalanche records, Gig - King Tut's (14+) 5pm Thu 19 Nov Manchester Pulp signing 5pm Fri 20 Nov London Union Chappel (Mencap show) w/ Lostprophets Sat 21 Nov Kingston Signing –...
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Derick's palace, This is the house the 'Gov' built
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
WHILE deposed governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Derick Latibeaudiere, is "yet to make a decision about his future", one thing is certain: he has built himself a mansion of architectural grandeur, unparalleled by many of...
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Fix the BOJ!
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
PROFESSOR EMERITUS at Stanford University in the United States, Donald J. Harris, has added his voice to those calling for the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) to be duly constituted as an independent central bank.
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R4i Card + 4GB Kingston Memory Card(free shipping)
peanut12 | 05/11/2009
R4i Card + 4GB Kingston Memory Card R4i Card + 4GB Kingston Memory Card is the latest development in flash cartridge technology for the Nintendo DSi. You can better benefit it in watching movies, playing music, browsing pictures, reading ebooks etc. Features: Same size as an original DSi game cartridge. Built-in PassMe (NO need for any boot cart./passcard etc.) Uses microSD memory card (Trans Flash)
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R4i Card + 2GB Kingston Memory Card R4i Card + 2GB Kingston Memory Card is the latest development in flash cartridge technology for the Nintendo DSi. You can better benefit it in watching movies, playing music, browsing pictures, reading ebooks etc. Features: Same size as an original DSi game cartridge. Built-in PassMe (NO need for any boot cart./passcard etc.) Uses microSD memory card (Trans Flash)
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peanut2 | 04/11/2009
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