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...Rates can run as high as 20%, vs. about 14% for an unsecured bank loan. But the loan club may be an immigrant's only source of funds. "I would have spent months convincing a bank that my expansion plan made sense," says a New York City printer from Jamaica who wanted to add a color-lithography machine to his business. Instead, he borrowed $18,000 at 15% interest from a loan club to buy the equipment. As a result, his annual revenues have more than doubled, from $27,000 in 1986 to $59,000 last year...
...student in the early years christened the building Eaton House, after the second president of Harvard. Eaton forced the closing of Harvard for a year when he ran off to Jamaica with the entire college endowment after it was discovered that the meat he served to students was maggot-ridden...
Fermina and Juvenal grow to care for each other, but to escape their boredom, they each seeks adventure. Juvenal has a risky affair with a Black woman from Jamaica--a relationship considered to be taboo at that time in Colombia. Fermina locks herself in rooms and smokes cigars, thinking about love and adventure...
...There are plenty of other ways of doing clinical work on a less extensive scale, like the Jamaica Plain Clinical Center, where you only do clinical work for a semester," Agoglia says. The Law School also places students in other legal service centers around the Boston area...
When the posses are in need of fresh recruits, trusted "lieutenants" are sometimes dispatched back to Jamaica's shantytowns. There the gangsters flaunt fancy cars and flash wads of cash to entice impoverished youths. In recent months Jamaican police have noticed an exodus of young men from east Kingston neighborhoods. It doesn't take a sleuth to deduce their ultimate destination...