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Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner .
Gordon Arthur Cyril "Butch" Stewart OJ CD (6 July 1941 – 4 January 2021) was a Jamaican hotelier and businessman. He was the founder, owner, and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and its subsidiaries Appliance Traders and The Jamaica Observer .
Jamaica ( / dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [11] Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south ...
v. t. e. General elections were held in Jamaica on Thursday, 3 September 2020 [1] to elect 63 members of Parliament. As the constitution stipulates a five-year parliamentary term, [2] the next elections were not expected until between 25 February and 10 June 2021.
Adam Stewart (born January 27, 1981) is a Jamaican businessman. He is the executive chairman of the Caribbean-based resort company Sandals Resorts (SRI) and Beaches Resorts, president of the Sandals Foundation, and executive chairman of the ATL Group, a Jamaica-based automotive, commercial, and domestic appliance distributor.
The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) was a public broadcasting company in Jamaica founded in 1959 by premier Norman Manley with the aim of emulating the success of other national broadcasting companies such as the BBC and CBC.
The overall goal is to make Jamaica a significant player in the arena of information technology. In 2009, Jamaica launched Vision 2030, a national development plan that aims to put Jamaica in a position to achieve developed country status by 2030. National Outcome 11 is a "Technology-Enabled Society", to create a more prosperous economy.
The Jamaica Star is a newspaper often cited as a resource for happenings in Jamaica. According to an advertisement in Editor & Publisher in 1965, the Star was one of the first papers to carry the King Features Syndicate's coloring and comics page for children. References