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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.
Previously known as Boscobel Aerodrome, the airport was originally a limited service facility that processed about 20,000 [5] passengers annually. Boscobel Aerodrome was in operation for over 30 years and had scheduled passenger service provided by local air carriers such as Air Jamaica Express, Jamaica Air Service, [6] Jamaica Air Shuttle and Trans Jamaican Airlines which flew small prop and ...
The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 71% of the country's GDP. [16] Jamaica has natural resources and a climate conducive to agriculture and tourism. The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica's economy from sugar , and bananas .
The Weekend Star, first published in 1951, reviews of Jamaican music, dance, theatre, and culture. Track and Pools is for the horse-racing fraternity. It features computer-calculated tips for each race. The Children's Own is published each week during the academic term. Hospitality Jamaica is about tourist industry news.
According to Flow Jamaica's former Managing Director, Garfield Sinclair, the company's new parent, Liberty Global is focused on mobile data. On August 20, 2017, the company announced that it was launching an additional 144 LTE sites covering Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Mandeville by October 2017, making Flow the operator with the largest LTE ...
The West Indian Review was a magazine published in Kingston, Jamaica, from 1934 to 1974. [1] The editor was Esther Chapman . In Spring 1963 the title was changed to the Jamaican and West Indian Review .
Water supply and sanitation in Jamaica is characterized by high levels of access to an improved water source, while access to adequate sanitation stands at only 80%.This situation affects especially the poor, including the urban poor many of which live in the country's over 595 unplanned squatter settlements in unhealthy and unsanitary environments with a high risk of waterborne disease.
Jamaica's fourteen parishes are subdivided into sixty-three constituencies. The country follows the Westminster system and elects sixty-three Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Jamaica House of Representatives.