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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Postal Corporation of Jamaica Ltd. is the national post office of Jamaica.
In 1990, Gunewardene married Raju Chandiram, [7] with whom she had two sons, in 1994 and 2000. The couple separated in 2006. [38] Chandiram served as a senior executive at Odel and following their divorce subsequently served as a Director on the Sri Lankan Airlines board from May 2005 until March 2008. [39] [40]
One of the company's founders (Dr. John J. Grace) had worked for Grace Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York's W. R. Grace and Company.When, in 1922, W.R.Grace decided to divest the Jamaican subsidiary, Dr. Grace bought the company and, along with Fred Kennedy, a Jamaican, co-founded Grace, Kennedy and Company Limited.
In 1953, Jamaica became the first of the British colonies in the Caribbean to offer FM broadcasting when RJR began using the technology. By 1954, there were over 57,000 rediffusion boxes distributed throughout the country. [1] In 1959 Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was founded as a public broadcasting corporation operated by the government ...
Jai Chandiram (26 December 1937 – 11 May 2013) was a veteran media person and the former deputy director general of Doordarshan.She contributed greatly to the use of media in education and was instrumental in introducing its use at premier institutes like Central Institute of Education – NCERT, Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU), and the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting and ...
The Gleaner is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Western Hemisphere—operating since 1834, [2] and it is still considered a newspaper of record for Jamaica in the 21st century. [6] [5] The morning broadsheet newspaper is presently published six days each week in Kingston. The Sunday paper edition is called the Sunday Gleaner ...
The Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (JACAP) is a Jamaican not-for-profit [1] membership collective management organization [2] which was established in 1998. JACAP administers the public performance and, if assigned also, the mechanical (reproductive) rights and synchronization rights of lyricists (authors), music ...
In 1826, two free coloureds, Edward Jordan and Robert Osborn, founded The Watchman, which openly campaigned for the rights of free coloureds, and became Jamaica's first anti-slavery newspaper. In 1830, Jamaican colonial authorities arrested Jordan, the editor, and charged him with constructive treason .