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Web sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and ActiveRain present a golden opportunity to connect with friends, colleagues, and clients. April 2009 You hear a lot about social media today, and rightly so. Get the most benefit from these tools by following these basic rules: Be authentic. Your profile is the first thing people will see [...]

The new year is a new opportunity to upgrade, integrate, and streamline your operations. Learn more about the technologies that can make you a more effective professional. By Michael Antoniak | January 2010 With each new year comes an opportunity to rethink the products and services that empower your real estate career. As 2010 dawns, [...]

Joseph Ferrara of TheClozing.com, a real estate news aggregator site, predicts increased reliance on technology in the property industry in the coming year. He expects more brokerages to go mobile or virtual to lower costs in a weak market; and he believes agents will take advantage of mobile video text-messaging to send virtual tours and [...]

BY CLAUDIENNE EDWARDS Observer writer edwardsc@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, February 11, 2010 KINGSTON Mayor Desmond McKenzie has issued a warning to developers that the integrity of the council of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) would not be compromised by approving buildings that were not in compliance with the building codes. According to McKenzie, some developers [...]

JIS Wednesday, February 10, 2010 GROUND has been broken for some 288 serviced lots under the Sugar Workers Housing Programme in Bounty Hall, Trelawny. Some 150 serviced lots are to be provided for workers on the Hampden Estate in the parish, while the remainder will be sold on the open market. The project forms part [...]

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KINGSTON (JIS): Wednesday, December 23, 2009 “We have listened and we have heard,” was Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s response to public criticism of the tax package announced in the House of Representatives, last week Thursday. In a national broadcast Wednesday night (December 23), Mr. Golding said, “the response from the people of Jamaica has been [...]

Jamaica Gleaner News – A Christmas miracle – Lead Stories – Thursday | December 24, 2009. //

BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter hinesh@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, December 17, 2009 MONTEGO BAY, St James–Scores of squatters in Norwood Pen and Paradise Pen are fearful of being bulldozed out of their homes following last week’s serving of demolition notices– signed by the Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited on behalf of the Ministry of Housing– on [...]

Patrick Foster Thursday, December 17, 2009 GOVERNMENT is to replace Earl Samuels as managing director of the National Housing Trust (NHT) next January, in a major shake-up at the island’s premier housing organisation. Samuels’ contract expires on December 31, and according to NHT Chairman Howard Mitchell it will not be renewed as the organisation is [...]