Word: jamaicas
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...first foreign head of government to visit the White House will be Jamaica's newly elected Prime Minister, Edward Seaga, who arrives in Washington this week. The victory last fall of a candidate who supports the free market and friendship with the U.S. marked a stunning reversal of what seemed to be a socialist current in the turbulent Caribbean. Seaga's visit will give Reagan the opportunity to disclose whatever policy he has in mind for encouraging America's friends in the region...
Rodoboldo Hernandez is a worker in a Jamaica Plain candle factory who emigrated from Cuba ten years ago. He can not describe his reasons for leaving his native country, saying that he just got the opportunity and left. But he says he feels great about the naturalization ceremony. "I think it's one of the best things that has happened to me. I live here." He adds that as a citizen he will have much better chances of bringing his father and mother, who still live in Cuba, here...
Clasford Johnssen, a 71 year-old auto-body worker, says he, too came from his home land, Jamaica, ten years ago because his family was here. He sees his naturalization as a long-awaited change, and describes the attraction of living in the United States: "It's much better here for me or anybody. I could pick up bread here...
...fast followed the return Tuesday night of four striking inmates who spent four days in Shuttock Hospital in Jamaica Plain, where they were fed intravenously...
...Caribbean. Jamaicans are totally fed up with the chaos and the crisis through which they have gone. Jamaica used to be the pearl of the Caribbean, the model economy, proud to the point that we were resented by some other countries. To see Jamaica fall to the state where it was becoming an international beggar, totally broke, helped the other Caribbean countries to realize that this was not the way. They evaluated their own political movements in terms of what they saw happening in Jamaica. Hence there has been a very distinct shift, along with ours, in their own governments...