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...specific issue is a simmering deal to build a $15 million plant to refine Venezuelan crude oil in Jamaica. Barbados-born, U.S.-naturalized Oilman Frank Desmond St. Hilaire proposes to finance a 16,500-bbl.-a-day refinery at Kingston, bankrolled by the U.S.'s Colorado Oil & Gas Corp. But Jamaica's legislature must pass a bill giving him a 15-year monopoly on oil refining in Jamaica-plus enticing tax concessions...
...Kingston finished third and Hudson fifth for Princeton, but the Tigers offered little trouble after that. It was Yale's fifth triangular victory since 1948, when the series was started...
...Jamaica (pop. 1,600,000), the largest, exports bauxite, sugar, rum. bananas and cigars, makes shoes and textiles, imports rich tourists. Kingston is where Harry Belafonte had to "leave a little girl" in the famed calypso song. ¶ Trinidad (pop. 622,500). the richest (per-capita yearly income: $434), bustles with its prosperous oil industry. It stages the hemisphere's most tireless pre-Lenten carnival dance, in which the performer leans over backwards and wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven...
...every tourist folder says, the Caribbean is a land of contrasts. Froude can write of standing on the waterfront at Kingston in Grenada: "The off-shore night breeze had not yet risen. The harbor was as smooth as a looking-glass and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water. The silence was only broken by the whistle of the lizards or the cry of some far-off marsh frog. The air was warmer than we ever feel in the depth of an English summer, yet pure and delicious and charged with the perfume of a thousand...
Returning to Kingston, Jamaica's capital, from a one-day outing at northwest-coast Montego Bay. 1,500 passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...