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  • Jamaica travelling along business-friendly path

    In seeking to project Jamaica as a business-friendly destination, Julian Robinson, state minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, has indicated that investors could have their operations up and running within four to six months of expressing an interest in investing. "If you come to the table clear about what you want to do and you have your financing already, the ...

  • Storm clouds loom over Jamaica Pond

    "It was mostly sunny with some innocent clouds in Jamaica Plain and then suddenly these dramatic dark storm clouds moved in over Jamaica Pond. They looked like something from the movie "Independence Day" when the alien space ships enter Earth's atmosphere. The rain that followed was pretty intense ...

  • Jamaican lottery scam investigation leads to Gulfport

    GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - A Jamaican national was arrested in Gulfport Monday for his role in an alleged Jamaican lottery scam. Damion Aljunior Hill, 33, is in America on a work visa, but now faces two counts of wire fraud. Investigators with the Attorney General's Office Consumer Protection Division said the two alleged victims were told that they had won the lottery, but were required to ...

  • Jamaican Diaspora for Greater Role in National Development

    Kingston, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) To foster the role of the diaspora in the national economic and social development of Jamaica and strengthen its links with the government are objectives of the 5th Biennial Diaspora Conference to be held in the famous resort of Montego Bay. Under the motto "A Nation with a Mission: Jamaica and the Diaspora", more than 500 Jamaicans living abroad are ...

  • Usain Bolt’s coach calls for anti-doping lab in Jamaica to protect athletes

    The Jamaican government needs to establish an accredited anti-doping laboratory to protect its world-class athletes from taking contaminated substances, the coach of world record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt says.Glen Mills, who mentors Bolt and world 100 meters champion Yohan Blake, said Jamaican athletes faced a minefield of substances and had little way of checking their ...


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Almost as soon as it was possible to record motion pictures on flexible celluloid, someone had the idea of using it to record people having sex. Primitive one-reel stag films date back to the very beginnings of the cinema in the 1890s, thus the idea of depicting actual sex acts on film is nothing ... ...

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  • Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown fails drugs test

    Veronica Campbell-Brown, winner of three Olympic sprint titles at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, has tested positive for a banned diuretic called furosemide in the form of the pill Lasix. It is a masking agent that can hide traces of other substances which boost ...

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