Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sands, 50, Minister of Finance and Tourism: "We're best off selling the product we have-the world's best climate plus easy accessibility to the world's biggest travel population." Drawing 546,000 tourists last year, the Bahamas doubled Bermuda's tourist intake, outdrew Jamaica 3 to 2, and ranked only behind Puerto Rico in total Caribbean tourist trade. Some Bahamians feel that their archipelago will soon outstrip Puerto Rico, and Sands predicts a 1,000,000-tourist year by 1971. One new lure: gambling. In the Bahamas' first real plunge, a casino opened...
...serve as supermarket, liquor store and miniature Macy's all rolled into one. In Guatemala City, market women and their kids and kinfolk make up 10% of the capital's 400,000 population; Lima's markets count 7,000 women; and in the island nation of Jamaica, nearly all the food-distribution system revolves around "higgler" women...
...Jamaica. Upon getting independence, the 1,600,000 Jamaicans made no headlong rush to erase their British past. Coins and currency still bear Queen Elizabeth's likeness, and British-trained civil servants, both white and black, retain a firm grip on important ministries. Spry old Sir Alexander Bustamante, 79, the craggy-faced patriarch of a Premier, preaches patience, order and unswerving friendship with the West...
Last year 23 new industries set up shop under Jamaica's tax incentive program, and both Alcoa and Reynolds Metals Co. have launched multimillion-dollar expansions. Despite a mild recession, Jamaica is also off to a good start on an ambitious five-year development plan. The government will spend $255 million on housing, schools, roads and land improvement. To increase farm output, Bustamante will slap heavy taxes on idle fields and buy up uncultivated lands to distribute to peasant families at a rate of 10,500 acres per year...
...came through with a pledge of $30 million over a five-year period for development projects, and has promised to build a road from Port of Spain to the U.S. Chaguaramas Naval Base. So far, despite Trinidad's own slight recession, industrialization is proceeding faster than in Jamaica...