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"Sunday mishap: Misfortune struck this Sun Enterprise passenger bus while on its way from Portmore, St. Catherine to Cross Roads, St. Andrew near 9:30 yesterday morning. One eyewitness told the Daily News that driver Conroy Miller [back to camera, at…

"Here are two lucky winners in our Summer Superstakes.

National Hotel & Properties' James Samuels, Assistant Director of Marketing and Sales, presents a certificate for a week-end for two at Hotel Intercontinental, Ocho Rios to lucky Anne…

A colour photograph of sugarcane being reaped, bundled and loaded unto a cart by enslaved Africans

"Sugar workers wanted now: Venezuela representative Sr. Rafael Enrique Ayala (left) and Labour Minister William Isaacs discussing the need to send a first batch of Jamaican canecutters to Venezuela almost immediately. The Venezuelan representative,…

"In the 18th century, sugar was sold as a big cone called a 'sugar-loaf'. Sugar nippers were used in the home for breaking chunks off sugar-loaves for use."

The interior of a sugar factory

Image of an old sugar mill located on the historic Green Castle Estate in St. Mary, Jamaica.

Design drawing of a sugar mill done by Edward Woollery Esq. of Jamaica.

Labourers cutting sugar cane in the canefields.