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The private Spanish company Cosentino brand Silestone and the public Israeli company Caesarstone are the most recognizable brands for quartz, as well as Totem Quartz, an Iranian company which has a huge market in the middle east and Central Asia. Gulfstone, an Oman-based company, is the only producer of engineered quartz stone in the GCC.
Quartzite is a decorative stone and may be used to cover walls, as roofing tiles, as flooring, and stairsteps. Its use for countertops in kitchens is expanding rapidly. It is harder and more resistant to stains than granite. Crushed quartzite is sometimes used in road construction. [2]
Area codes 876 and 658 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Jamaica.. Having telephone service to the United States as early as 1936, it was not until 1962 that Jamaica had a high-capacity link for dial service to the US network, which was operated as part of the NANP numbering plan area 809. 809 was designated for parts of the Caribbean region in 1958, and ...
Middlesex is the central of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It has no current-day administrative significance. [citation needed] It covers 5,041.9 km 2 and has a population of 1,183,361 [1] (about 45% of the island's area and population) giving it the largest area and population of the three counties.
Southfield has two hardware stores, one of which is owned and operated by the Parchment family, a Petcom gas station owned by the Gayle family, many churches including Southfield Seventh-Day Adventist church which was the first Seventh Day Adventist Church in the region.
Porus was founded in 1840 by the missionary James Phillippo as a free village for ex-slaves following emancipation. [2] It was his sixth such village. [2] It was originally called Vale Lionel after the then Governor of Jamaica, Sir Lionel Smith, [2] but was soon renamed "Porous" most probably after the porous soil in the vicinity. [2]
Surrey (also Surry) is the easternmost and the smallest by area of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It was created in 1758, and is divided into four parishes. It was created in 1758, and is divided into four parishes.
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...