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Welcome to the Gleaner Online's
bi-weekly newsletter.
This week we are featuring:
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- Villas Around Jamaica - Beachcomber Club
- Sportsjamaica.com -Jamaican Sports Celebrating
Jamaican Excellence
- Go-localjamaica.com - Valentine Winners
- Jamaica Gleaner: - Archives Online
Ecommerce Works With Go-Jamaica.com: Featured
clients Stennett Ilustrations and Jamaica
Rediscovered.
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Villas Around Jamaica: - Beachcomber
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A
moment so beautiful, the promise of many such
moments at the Beachcomber Club. Located on Negril's
beautiful 7 mile beach.
Whether you're single, a couple or a family,
it's time to will your worries to us. To make
our secret world your own. And to open yourself
to discovery the Jewel of Jamaica. For information
on this Jamaican asset click here: http://www.beachcomberclub.com/
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Sportsjamaica.com: Jamaican Sports Celebrating
Jamaican Excellence.
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Sports
Jamaica is dedicated to bringing you all the information
on what's happening in Jamaican sports plus information
on Jamaican sportsmen and women.
Sports Jamaica will carry sports stories, scores,
records and all you need to know need. For more
information on all of Jamaica sporting activities
click here: www.sportsjamaica.com http://www.sportsjamaica.com
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Go-localjamaica.com: Valentine
Winners |
Well
thanks to the many hundreds of you that participated
in our competition this year. It was good to know
that so many of you were able to answer the questions
posed correctly. However, we could only have one
winner and one runner up and they are featured
on
http://www.go-localjamaica.com/valentine/page.htm
If you were not lucky enough to win this competition
later this month we will be launching out "Giveaways
Competition". Remember you have to reside
in Jamaica to win.
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Jamaica Gleaner: Archives Online |
This
week the Gleaner Company Ltd placed its vast newspaper
archives dating back to 1834 on the World Wide Web.
By simply logging on to Gleaner.newspaperarchive.com,
a visitor to the site will be able to enter a
search term and within seconds, receive a listing
of Gleaner publications over 171 years.
If a person registers, for a fee, the actual
printed page will be displayed and made available
for download, printing or email. The rates for
the service are US$7.95 per day, US$29.95 per
quarter and US$49.95 per year.
Remember this website is your gateway to searching
and reading antique newspapers online.
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Ecommerce Works With Go-Jamaica.com:
- Take your business online with Go-Jamaica.com
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This week we are
featuring: Stennett Ilustrations and Jamaica Rediscovered.
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Errol Stennett is a renowned artist whose illustrations
are revered and sought after around the region.
He currently has online a limited number of original
prints handmade and printed on medium weight acid
free paper. These prints are individually signed
by the artist.
View some of his prints at http://www.discoverjamaica.com/shop/stennett.html
Jamaica Rediscovered showcases the work of photographer
Dr. Kai Meng Lui. Dr Lui has online three CDs
featuring the Orchids of Jamaica, the parish of
Portland and the parish of St. Thomas.
Some of the CDs are in the form of a slideshow
and movie. For more information on this product
click here http://www.discoverjamaica.com/shop/lui.html
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New Music Mixes |
Now
you can listen to some of the country's most popular
dancehall, calypso and reggae mixes at http://www.jamaicastar.com/ruggedjams/
Every week we will bring you new mixes. Enjoy the music
and remember to share it with your friends.
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Go-Jamaica Store |
Go-Jamaica
merchandise is now online. Gifts include trendy T-shirts
for men & women, hats, caps, bags and of course the
delightful cuddly toy. http://www.cafeshops.com/gojamaicastore |
Programme Hosts: Derrick
Jones with Yvette Rowe & Hamlin Grange |
Programme
Description: As Power 106FM works to achieve its
objective of giving Jamaicans their first 24/7 all-talk
radio station, Good Evening Jamaica was developed to
provide quality news programming that would appeal to
Jamaicans at home and in the diaspora. Starting on air
on January 17, 2005, Good Evening Jamaica provides major
news, sports and weather along with current affairs
ranging from politics and science & technology to
business and the arts. The Gleaner/Power 106 Radio Newscentre
that has correspondents in Kingston, London, Toronto,
New York and Miami produces the news content of the
programme enabling the features in the programme to
also adapt an international outlook.
About the Hosts: Chief Anchor Derrick Jones
is an attorney-at-law for more than 40-years, Honorary
Consul for Sweden in Jamaica, a partner at the law firm
Myers Fletcher & Gordon and a board member of numerous
companies.
Her accent tells of her British training, but Co-host
Yvette Rowe has made her name in broadcast journalism
mainly in Jamaica. She is a lecturer and award winning
broadcast journalist and producer with a track record
in radio and television production across the region.
Before being appointed a member of the Toronto Police
Services Board Hamlin Grange was a press reporter and
managing editor, television news anchor and host and
community activist. He is cofounder of ProMedia International,
which sponsors the annual Innoversity Creative
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Programme email: power106@cwjamaica.com
Telephone nos: In Jamaica, 968-4901- 3, 1-888-991-4072
Intnl Toll-free line courtesy of People's Telecom Ja
Ltd: 1-866-LINK-106 (1-866-5465-106)
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Client Showcase Featured Clients
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Prospect
Estate is located in Western Jamaica and comprises
298 acres of land now in sugar cane production. Research
at the nation's archives in Spanish Town, reveals that
the property was patented in 1963 by John Breeding who
was one of the early settlers to the island of Jamaica.
The early cultivators of the property planted sugar
cane and this crop has been in continued production
for the past three hundred years.
In 1784, Williams Bligh of "Bounty" Fame
Acting as Captain of the ship Lynx carried sugar from
Prospect Estate to England. Captain Bligh gained notoriety
as a result of the famous Mutiny of the Bounty. This
expedition to the South Seas involved the transportation
of hundred of breadfruit trees and other and other exotics
from the island of Tahiti to Jamaica.
The cane lands amounting to two hundred and seventy-eight
acres is for Sale going price US$700,000.
For a closer look at this amazing property visit www.prospectestatejamaica.com
http://www.prospectestatejamaica.com
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