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In Jamaica, harvesting was mainly carried out by men, while production of objects from lacebark was the prerogative of women. As a textile, lacebark is soft and may be readily dyed or stained. [ 3 ] In 1883, the French naturalist Félix-Archimède Pouchet wrote that lacebark was "as fine as our muslin and even takes its place in the toilet of ...
The Jamaican Free Zones are a government free trade zone initiative in Jamaica.Designed to encourage foreign investment and international trade, businesses operating within these zones have no tax on their profits, and are exempted from customs duties on imports and exports (capital goods, raw materials, construction materials, and office equipment) and import licensing requirements.
Kingston is a city in and the county seat [7] of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. This city is thirty-six miles southwest of Knoxville . It had a population of 5,934 at the 2010 United States census , [ 8 ] and is included in the Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area .
In 2017 Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) suspended service on a line through Rollington Town because of road blocks and violence. The company's buses had been attacked by stone throwers. [1] Service was restored the next day. [2] Oku Onuora formed a community school in the area and
Kingston: 1973 Hotel P A Jamaica Stock Exchange: Financials Investment services Kingston: 1968 Primary exchange P A Lasco Jamaica: Conglomerates - Kingston: 1994 [3] Industrials, financials, pharma P A National Commercial Bank of Jamaica: Financials Banks Kingston: 1977 Banking P A Norman Manley International Airport: Industrials Transportation ...
The Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers' Cooperative Society, popularly known as Co-optex, is a cooperative of traditional handloom weavers of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This is under the control of Department of Handlooms, Handicrafts, Textiles and Khadi (Tamil Nadu) of Government of Tamil Nadu.
The Tri-Cities region was formerly a single Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); due to the U.S. Census Bureau's revised definitions of urban areas in the early 2000s, it is now a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with two metropolitan components: Johnson City and Kingsport–Bristol, TN–VA.
Eastman Chemical Company is an American company primarily involved in the chemical industry. Once a subsidiary of Kodak, [2] today it is an independent global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of advanced materials, chemicals and fibers for everyday purposes.