JG - Illicit trade 'no secret'

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Jamaica Gleaner


Illicit trade 'no secret'


Published: Sunday April 12, 2009


Gareth Manning, Staff Reporter

Several people collect money from the same person over and over on any given day when business is at its peak


HUNDREDS OF thousands of US dollars are being wired through money transfer agencies on a daily basis to tricksters in the out-of-control lottery scam, better known in the second city as 'the game'.

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Snippet(s):

"The scammers tend to use branches of two agencies, The Sunday Gleaner understands, some of which, it appears, knowingly facilitate the practice for a percentage of the ill-gotten gains."

JG - Jamaicans in Canada seek local investments

Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaicans in Canada seek local investments


Published: Sunday April 19, 2009


Gareth Manning, Sunday Gleaner Writer


Ffolkes Abrahams


Many Jamaicans living in Canada are looking for new investment opportunities on the island, in a bid to help strengthen the relationship between the two countries.

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gareth.manning@gleanerjm.com

JG - Jamaica's oil prospects look good - Wright

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Jamaica Gleaner


Jamaica's oil prospects look good - Wright


published: Sunday July 6, 2008

Gareth Manning, Sunday Gleaner Reporter


IN ANOTHER three weeks, Jamaica's prospects for reducing its heavy dependence on imported oil will be known, as geologists complete their studies of offshore explorations.


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"Dr Raymond Wright, consultant and special projects manager at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), estimates that Jamaica may be sitting on as much as 2.5 to three trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This amount of gas could supply the country for hundreds of years."