Kingston

Jamaica cuts growth forecast to 1 percent

wtop.com
15-Nov-2008 11 related
        

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - A top Jamaican finance official is warning of tougher times to come in the Caribbean country. Sen. Don Wehby says Jamaica is cutting its projected economic growth for next year from 3 percent to 1...

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Students held for weed, weapons seized

jamaica-gleaner.com
15-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Fifteen students who attend schools in Kingston, St Andrew and St Catherine were arrested in October for possession of, dealing in and smoking marijuana.The students were referred either for counselling or to do...

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The early years

jamaica-gleaner.com
15-Nov-2008
        

I lived the first four years of my life in Mount Providence, a small village near Chapelton in Clarendon. I remember very little of my life there. What comes to my memory are fleeting glimpses of places and events similar to...

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UDC selling Jamaica Pegasus

jamaica-gleaner.com
15-Nov-2008
        

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has decided to sell its majority 60 per cent stake in Pegasus Hotel Company, operator of The Jamaica Pegasus.The National Hotels and Properties Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the...

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Mean streets did not break Steele - Education, determination pay off for finance director

jamaica-gleaner.com
15-Nov-2008
        

Thirty-four-year-old Marcus Steele had a rough childhood, but he did not allow his situation to prevent him from succeeding and today, he is the finance director for Carreras Group Limited. Steele was born in Payne Land, an...

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Delta to Jamaica for $396 inclusive (at Atlanta Journal Constitution)

yahoo.com
14-Nov-2008
        

By CLARA BOSONETTO MAERZ For The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday, November 14, 2008 Need to getaway? Need to go now? Make it Jamaica, mon. DAILY DEALS Clara Bosonetto Maerz's column is published weekdays on ajc.com. NOTE:...

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Incomplete! - Falmouth port deal not fully financed

jamaica-gleaner.com
14-Nov-2008
        

THE GLOBAL financial meltdown has forced the Government to dial back on its contribution to the develop-ment of the cruise-ship port in Falmouth, Trelawny, forcing the project cost down by US$38 million to US$224...

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Perils of parking crackdown

jamaica-gleaner.com
14-Nov-2008
        

published: Friday | November 14, 2008 The Editor, Sir: I would like to share an experience which my family and I, as well as many other unfortunate persons, had on November 11, at about 7:45 p.m. in the New Kingston area. I was...

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Dancing with the DJs

independent.co.uk
14-Nov-2008
        

Travelling to get married in the Caribbean is these days so commonplace as to be almost a cliché, though not one that involves tying the knot in a poverty-stricken Jamaican inner-city back street with a crude-talking albino...

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'Close churches for six months ...'

jamaica-gleaner.com
13-Nov-2008 4 related
        

At the funeral service for 11-year-old Ananda Dean, who was abducted and killed, Betty Ann Blaine, convenor of Hear the Children Cry, cried loudly, "Close Churches for six months" and visit inner cities. Her theory was that all...

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