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Newcastle is a settlement in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Formerly a military hill station for the British Army it is now a training centre for the Jamaica Defence Force . The Blue Mountain and John Crow Mountain National Park in which Newcastle is located was established in 1992.
Dolphin Cove Jamaica: Consumer services Travel & tourism Ocho Rios: 2001 Tourist attraction P A Fly Jamaica Airways: Consumer services Airlines Kingston: 2011 Airline, defunct 2019 P D Gleaner Company: Consumer services Publishing Kingston: 1834 Newspaper, publisher P A GraceKennedy: Conglomerates - Kingston: 1922 Financials, industrials ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in Jamaica, sorted by type and name. In Jamaica, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has a monopoly on the "transmission, distribution and supply of electricity". [1] However, JPS does not have a monopoly on electricity generation.
West Indies Records Limited (WIRL) was a recording studio in Kingston, Jamaica [1] established by future Prime Minister Edward Seaga in 1958. [2] Seaga recruited and recorded many artists such as Higgs and Wilson, and Byron Lee and the Dragonaires. As Seaga pursued his political career he sold it to Byron Lee in 1964, [3] who renamed it Dynamic ...
The company also operated mobile telecommunications under the bmobile brand from 2003 until rebranding them as LIME in 2008. [3] Competitors include Digicel (largest mobile competitor). Cable & Wireless Communications, LIME's parent company, also owns a 49% share in TSTT in Trinidad & Tobago and a 49% share in BaTelCo in The Bahamas .
Crown does not actually appear in Lloyd's Register until 1795. At that time her master is Stranach, her owner Lyall, and her trade London–Jamaica. [4] On 1 March 1796 Lloyd's List reported that Crown, Stranack, master, and Susannah, Skelton, master, both bound for the West Indies, had had to return to Portsmouth after they had run afoul of each other.
In 1981 the company acquired Amalgamated Power Engineering (APE), a leading manufacturer of engines. [4] APE was itself the result of a merger in 1968 of W.H. Allen, Sons & Co. (founded in 1880 and based in Bedford), [5] Belliss and Morcom of Birmingham, and Crossley Engines (founded in 1867 and based in Manchester). [6]
On the mobile side, the company had completed its 4G HSPA+ rollout (capable of speeds up to 21 Mbit/s) across the island in November 2015 and has announced plans to move to LTE within the year 2016. However, Digicel has become the first LTE network operator in Jamaica, going live with their network on June 9, 2016. [3]