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Lyssons is named after Nicholas Lycence, who was the member for St. Thomas in the East in the Jamaican Assembly from 1671 to 1672. [1]The Lyssons Estate was a sugar plantation located in Lyssons which was owned by Simon Taylor, who was once the wealthiest sugar planter in the Colony of Jamaica and one of the wealthiest men in the British Empire in the eighteenth century.
The company is a part of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), which also operates Beaches Resorts, Fowl Cay Resort, and several private villas. Founded by Jamaican-born entrepreneur Gordon "Butch" Stewart in 1981, SRI is based in Montego Bay , Jamaica and is responsible for development, service standards, training, and day-to-day operations of ...
Pages in category "Populated places in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Barking Lodge, St. Thomas in the East, Jamaica (taken from a birth entry transcription by registrar W. Tilly, 1895) Barking Lodge was once a small sugar estate spanning 350 acres (1.4 km 2) and worked by 150 slaves at the time of emancipation when the property belonged to Philip Forsyth and the heirs of Robert Lindsay, having been owned in 1811 by the heirs of Ambrose S. Carter.
Serge Island Dairies is located in the parish. St. Thomas also has many factories for food processing and electrical equipment. Current efforts are being made by Upliftment Jamaica to create, support and provide opportunities to the people of St. Thomas, and to encourage economic and social transformation on a community and county-wide basis ...
Harry W. Lange's company is now named PB&J Resorts II (Jamaica) Limited. Hedonism III opened in 1999 in Runaway Bay and was built on 10 acres (40,000 m 2 ) and contained 225 rooms in 3-story buildings; in August 2010 the company closed Hedonism III temporarily, to allow for remodeling work.
A New & Accurate Map of the Island of Jamaica. Divided into its Principal Parishes. Emanuel Bowen, 1752. [1] Saint Thomas in the Vale Parish was one of the historic parishes of Jamaica created following colonisation of the island by the British.
Morant Bay is a town in southeastern Jamaica and the capital of the parish of St. Thomas, located about 40 kilometres east of Kingston, the capital. The parish has a population of 94,410. The parish has a population of 94,410.