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Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica. He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
Oracabessa is a small town in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Ocho Rios.Its population is nearly 7,000. [1] Lit in the afternoons by an apricot light that may have inspired its Spanish name, Oracabeza, or "Golden Head," Oracabessa's commercial district consists of a covered produce market and a few shops and bars.
Golden Clouds was the name given by Ruth Bryan Owen, the first female US ambassador, to her house in Oracabessa, Jamaica. [2] [3] It is situated between Goldeneye, where Ian Fleming wrote many of the James Bond novels, and Noël Coward's Firefly Estate. The ocean front 15-bedroom estate is on 7 acres (2.8 ha) of manicured lawn and gardens with ...
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Dr. No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond.Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica.
The gigantic telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, featured in the 1990 films “GoldenEye,” “Species” and “Contact,” is being decommissioned, The Associated Press reported.
Johann Teran, a Venezuelan in the United States on humanitarian parole, speaks about the new uncertainties for migrants since the Trump administration has canceled humanitarian protections, at his ...
The 2025 Grammy Awards began with host Trevor Noah paying tribute to Los Angeles after the wildfires before he cracked some jokes.