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Jamaica was the first British colony to establish a post office. [1] Gabriel Martin was appointed postmaster on 31 October 1671, shortly after British possession of the island was confirmed. Martin carried mail via posthorse between St. Jago and Passage Fort for several years, then disappeared from the record.
NN is a two-digit number for a post office; Division of postal codes. The zones were described in a press release of Jamaica Post 18 July 2005, [6] ...
The Postal Corporation of Jamaica Ltd. is the national post office of Jamaica. External links. Official website. This page was last edited on 27 July 2022 ...
The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) is an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Mining responsible for the: [1] regulation and development of Jamaica's ports and shipping industry; safety of all vessels navigating the ports of entry; regulation of tariffs on goods passing through the public wharves.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
In January 1809 Primrose sailed for Spain with a convoy. During a snowstorm she ran aground at 5 am on 22 January on Minstrel Rock, The Manacles, a mile offshore, and was wrecked. [5] [6] (The Manacles are a set of treacherous rocks off The Lizard, close to the shipping lane into Falmouth, Cornwall.) The sole survivor was a drummer boy. [7 ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not sure the United States should be spending anything on NATO, telling reporters the U.S. was protecting NATO members, but they were "not ...
An assessment of Navy strength at the Jamaica station in 1742 found around 3,000 men were fit to serve out of a total Navy complement of 6,620. [5] A Navy hospital was constructed in 1745 but its location was poor and many patients brought in for shipboard diseases developed additional tropical illnesses while in the hospital itself.