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In Focus Jamaica: A Guide to the People, Policitics and Culture
Very good look at the history and overview of the makings of the most beautiful country we've ever seen. It really helps to understand the personalities and the heritage that brought them to the point they are at now.

Not your average travel book
I was looking for a book that would tell me more than the best beaches or resorts to visit. This book is much more in depth about the culture and people than most travel books. If you want to know about the real Jamaica and not just what you see at a resort or on a tour, this is the book for you.

Great for Travelers
The greatness of Mason's guidebook is that it gives history and politics as well as travel information.Mason provides a basis for understanding the place.Another great travel companion is "Jamaica Girl" by Jon Michael Miller.Miller's novel also shows you the real Jamaica, far behind the walls of the famous all-inclusive resorts. You will see the struggles and the joys of a wonderful people, as well as meet Rosalind Juliet Mitchell, a fabulously brave and resourceful protagonist, on her search for love and freedom. It is by far the best book about Jamaica I have ever read. A wonderful story, suspenseful, sexy, funny, disturbing, and quite moving. Wonderful characters. And a great message about the power of love to transform one's existence. A great read for a vacation, or, even, a vacation in itself. ... Read more

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Chapters: Don Wehby, Keble Munn, Andrew Holness, Omar Davies, Horace Chang, Audley Shaw, Anthony Hylton, Dorothy Lightbourne, Dwight Nelson, James Robertson, Daryl Vaz, Pearnel Charles, Christopher Tufton, Michael Henry, Edmund Bartlett, Rudyard Spencer, Olivia Grange, Karl Samuda,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Don Wehby is a Jamaican business executive and politician. He is group chief operating officer at GraceKennedy Limited and a former senator and cabinet minister. In September 2007, he became a senator and Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and The Public Service. On October 5, he returned to GraceKennedy Limited and became the company's group chief operating officer. On November 5, 2009, he called for governance changes at the Bank of Jamaica, the country's central bank, following the resignation of the bank's governor. He said that the positions of governor and chairman of the bank should be split. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25006383 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on November 6, 2007. The length of the article is 893 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jamaica: the Caribbean's no-go zone: should LGBT travelers boycott the homophobic Caribbean isle, or has a de facto gay ban already occurred?(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual)
Author: Ken Kiesnowski
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 6, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 996Page: S38(1)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jamaican Trade Unionists, Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers, Gladys Bustamante, St. William Grant, Helene Davis-Whyte, Trade Union Congress, Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions, National Workers Union, Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, Jamaica Airline Pilots Association. Excerpt: The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) is a 5,000-member public sector trade union in Jamaica which represents workers in local and national government, governmental corporations, quasi-government bodies and other agencies created by statute. Its members are non-supervisory personnel and include fire-fighters with the Jamaica Fire Brigade, workers at the National Water Commission, non-nursing personnel in the health service, non-teachers in the schools, workers at the National Irrigation Commission and government employees in the 13 Parish Councils. JALGO was formed in 1940. After a series of labor uprisings, colonial British authorities passed a reform law in December 1938 legalizing trade unionism in Jamaica. The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) and the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) both were formed after passage of the trade union law. BITU and TUC quickly elevated the wages of some manual laborers to a point where they were at the same level or even higher than clerical workers in local government. When white-collar workers employed by the city of Kingston began demanding wage increases, the colonial government set up a one-man commission to make recommendations. The white-collar workers consulted with Alexander Bustamante, Noel Nethersole and Frank Hillleaders of the nascent Jamaican labor movementon what to do. Bustamante and the others recommended the formation of a trade union to empower the workers. On Novembe... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12710852 ... Read more

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