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The unfinished community centre building in the Lloyds community in St. Thomas, Jamaica.

A group of banana carriers walk in tandem, bananas on heads and shoulders as they make their way towards the boat in Port Antonio, Portland. Jamaica was the first country in the world to trade bananas internationally. The banana trade in Portland…

Labourers line up to load bananas onto a ship.

Men unloading a trailer of bananas in a warehouse in Gregory Park, St. Caherine, while others get ready to rap them in plastic stored on rolls overhead.

Two men inspecting bunches of bananas that are wrapped in plastic and stacked for export in Gregory Park, St. Catherine, Jamaica.

Labourers load bunches of bananas unto a ship. Small boats are

Men loading logwood on to ships in Kingston, Jamaica. A cart that is used to transport the logwood to the wharf, is being unloaded.

"United States Agency for international Development [USAID] director Lewis P. Reade [left] and Life of Jamaica president Adrian Foreman signing a US $2.5 million loan agreement on Thursday to help finance small Jamaican Businesses."

"$10M loan to Jamaica: The Inter-American Bank recently granted two loans totalling $10 million to the Jamaica Development Bank (JDB), to help finance the second stage of a programme to develop industry and tourism in Jamaica.
The loan contracts…