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Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Mark Titus, Enterprise Reporter An aerial view of Port Antonio in Portland - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Despite their sojourn in the wilderness of neglect for decades, members of the business community in Port Antonio are expressing confidence that present developments will serve as a catalyst for further investment in the resort town."Port Antonio is a natural, but there is no...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Students attacked at Calabarpublished: Friday | September 19, 2008An Atllas security guard tries to prevent the Gleaner photographer from taking images at the entrance of the Calabar High School after an incident at the school where a student was injured yesterday. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff PhotographerClasses were disrupted at the all-boys Calabar High School in St Andrew yesterday morning...
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Jamaia Star (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Rasbert Turner, Star Writer Residents watch as police personnel from the Scene of Crimes Unit process the area where Alston Hayden of Mizpah district in Glengoffe, St Catherine was killed on Monday. - Ricardo Makyn Spanish Town A meal of rice and mackerel was not to be a reality for 26-year-old Alston Hayden, as he was shot to death by gunmen before he could reach home in Mizpah district,...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Kern Spencer (right), member of parliament for North East St Elizabeth, embraces a supporter on his arrival at the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. Spencer, along with co-accused Rodney Chin and Coleen Wright, is facing charges of money laundering and corruption in connection with the Cuban light-bulb project. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
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Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Wayne Wilson, a 35-year-old farmer, suffered big losses to his farm in Burnt Ground, Hanover. The farm was noted for an abundance of ackees. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Before the onset of Tropical Storm Gustav, agriculture was a booming business for 35-year-old Wayne Wilson, but after heavy rains and winds associated with the system pelted the island, affecting his crops, he is...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Jarmila Jackson, Features WriterThe sport has an ever-increasing flock of participants (which includes women). - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer The 2008 Game Bird Shooting season is on and already has a great number of persons just itching to get out to the bird bush.For former Minister of National Security, K.D. Knight, the love affair with the hunt began early. "It is a family sport,...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Tyrone Reid, Enterprise ReporterRamkissoon ... The children at Sophie's Place have not been eating properly since the storm and we can't get them back to normal. - Ricardo makyn/staff photographer A heart-wrenching cry for assistance to rebuild its children's homes has come from the Mustard Seed Communities after the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav left 24 "severely disabled" children...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Tendai Franklyn-Brown, Staff ReporterThousands of people from eastern Jamaica make their way across the pedestrian section of the Bailey bridge in Harbour View, St Andrew after it was opened yesterday. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Minister of Transport Mike Henry says the rebuilding of the Hope River bridge is expected to take up to 24 months."We are mid-hurricane season, and establishing...
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Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
A flooded section of the St Mary Banana Estate in St Mary after the passage of Gustav. Banana farms in the nearby parish of Portland were also devastated. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer PORTLAND: Several farmers in Portland still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Dean last year, lost millions of dollars in damage yet again as a result of Tropical Storm Gustav.Bananas and plantains...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
AFTER RIDING out four hurricanes in Industry Village, businessman Leonard Davis thought he had seen everything. That is, until the rural St Andrew district felt the force of Tropical Storm Gustav last Thursday.
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Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
With music record sales falling worldwide, Michael 'Mikey' Bennett, managing director of Grafton Studios, says that the future of the local industry rests not on the sale of CDs, but on selling the individual as a performer.
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Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
With a week to go before banana export begins in Jamaica, farmers in St Mary are facing almost complete devastation after the passing of Tropical Storm Gustav.
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
This man in Long Bay, Portland, makes off with two crates of Guinness after the roof and outer walls of a bar were destroyed by the brute force winds of Tropical Storm Gustav. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff PhotographerResidents of Old Harbour Bay, although fearful of the devastation Tropical Storm Gustav may inflict on the small fishing village, several persons say they are more fearful of the...
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Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Gareth Davis and Athaliah Reynolds, Gleaner WritersHerlene Murray (foreground), a resident of Long Bay, Portland, examines her bar after strong winds from Tropical Storm Gustav destroyed the roof and outer walls of the wooden structure yesterday. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Up to late last night, residents of Portland had faced the brunt of Tropical Storm Gustav, while other parishes...
