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Jerry Tomanelli Jamaica...
...island nation now produces about 183,000 bbl. of oil a day. But the list of social and economic problems elsewhere in the Caribbean is a depressing one. Cash debts are staggering: the islands as a whole owe Western banks and governments more than $6.5 billion. In Jamaica (pop. 2.2 million) the $1.4 billion foreign debt is equal to 40% of the country's entire gross domestic product. In Grenada, the Marxist-inspired New Jewel Movement has run up a $17.1 million debt that equals 21 % of the country's annual production of goods and services. Despite largescale...
...attempts at regional federation failed. Although the area has some effective regional institutions, such as the Caribbean Development Bank, genuine cooperation in critical areas of government planning, marketing and even the costly business of diplomatic representation abroad is rare. Sometimes the regional competition reaches ludicrous extremes. In 1976, Jamaica used a developmental loan from Trinidad and Tobago to finance an elaborate London embassy and to create Air Jamaica as a rival to the donor country's BWIA International; both airlines are now heavy money losers. Major General Robert Neish, head of the 4,000-member Jamaica Defense Force, finds...
...Committee's first tasks will be the future of the Harvard affiliate Legal services Center in Jamaica Plain .The center handles over 600 cases and employs more than 40 law school student volunteers each term through a course sequence entitled Introduction to Advocacy; Civil and Criminal...
...referendum was initiated in July by a group of Jamaica Plain residents who presented a petition with 200 signatures to the Attorney General...