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Notable companies Status: P=Private, S=State; A=Active, D=Defunct; Name Industry Sector Headquarters Founded Notes Status Air Jamaica: Consumer services Airline Kingston: 1968 Airline, defunct 2015 P D Alpart: Basic materials Aluminum Nain: 1969 Aluminum P A Bank of Jamaica: Financials Banks Kingston: 1961 Central bank S A Beaches Resorts ...
Pages in category "Companies based in Kingston, Jamaica" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In December 2001, after Courts plc breached a number of its banking covenants, the company's banks appointed PwC to safeguard their debts. [citation needed] On Monday 29 November 2004, shares in Courts plc were suspended at 13.5p and the company went into administration, [3] with debts of £280 million. PwC earned record fees for both pre ...
The first of Jamaica's special economic zones was created in 1976 with the goal of industrializing the country, as well as increasing foreign exchange and access to technology. [ 16 ] : 183 [ 17 ] This primary zone was in Kingston and was strategically attached to one of the country's main ports, to facilitate efficient transportation.
The company was established in the Caribbean region since 1959, and is the Caribbean's largest furniture, appliance and electrical retailer. The company has stores across the Caribbean islands: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago ...
Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [14] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [19] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [8]
Jose "Jerry" Acuzar was born on June 19, 1955, in Balanga, Bataan. [3] [1] His parents were Marcelino A. Acuzar and Maria Larion.[1]He finished his primary education at the Balanga Elementary School in 1967 and completed his secondary education at the Arellano Memorial (Bataan) High School (now Bataan National High School) in 1974.
Abraham Elias Issa CBE OJ (October 10, 1905 – November 29, 1984) was a Jamaican businessman, entrepreneur and hotelier acclaimed as "The Father of Jamaican Tourism". [1] As the first president of the Jamaica Tourist Board he contributed to the expansion of Jamaican tourism in the late 1950s.