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This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
The Willis Building was commissioned by John Roscoe, chairman of Willis, Faber & Dumas, in the early 1970s. [3] The architectural firm of Norman Foster was selected after a shortlist was provided by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Foster's design, inspired by a glass-clad office building he had recently completed, featured innovative ...
Willis secured the naming rights effective July 2009 as part of its agreement to lease 140,000 square feet (13,000 m 2) of space in the 3,800,000-square-foot (350,000 m 2) tower. [14] It is the tallest building in the U.S. and was the tallest building in the world from 1974 until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Petronas Towers in Kuala ...
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Willis Towers Watson plc, branded as WTW and stylised in its logo as wtw, is a British-American multinational company that provides commercial insurance brokerage services, strategic risk management services (such as contingency planning, security audits, and product tampering plans), employee benefits and compensation management, and actuarial analysis and investment management for pension ...
J. Wray and Nephew Ltd. Consumer goods Distillers & vintners Kingston: 1825 Distiller P A Jamaica Air Shuttle: Consumer services Airlines Kingston: 2009 Airline, defunct 2013 P D Jamaica Observer: Consumer services Publishing Kingston: 1993 Newspaper P A Jamaica Pegasus Hotel: Consumer services Hotels Kingston: 1973 Hotel P A Jamaica Stock ...
The parish is located at latitude 18°15'N, and longitude 77°56'W; to the west of Manchester, to the east of Westmoreland, and to the south of St. James and Trelawny.It covers an area of 1,212.4 km 2, making it Jamaica's second-largest parish, smaller only than Saint Ann's 1,212.6 km 2.
In the 1760s Thomas Southworth, a merchant from Kingston in partnership with John Kennion, a kinsman of Edward Kennion, changed the name of the estate from Green Pond to Green Park, and started to transform it from being a cattle farm, into a large sugar plantation. [2] He died shortly after he commenced construction of the main residence in 1764.