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LIME Flip Top Launch - Garfield Sinclair, LIME Managing Director and Jamaica National's Michael Collins discuss the financing options available for the new LIME FlipTop. LIME is making the low-cost laptop available for J$14,999 for customers who sign up for its Internet service. - Contributed

Jamaican hoteliers have launched a new ecommerce platform for bookings and as a showcase for the diversity of small hotel products, as depicted by these two screen grabs of the site - www.smallhotelsjamaica.com. The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Assciation launched the website and Jamaican Intimate Small Hotels Network at the Spanish Court Hotel, St Lucia Avenue, New Kingston on August 13.

Jamaica's ambassador to South Africa, Norma Taylor Roberts, presented her credentials to South African president Jacob Zuma (centre) on July 12, 2011. At left is Dr Cassius Lubisi, director-general in the Presidency.

Berletta Henlon Forrester (right) JAMPRO's export promotion manager, makes a point to Chihon Ley (centre), advisor to RGX Global Export Network and expert in introducing Latin American and European companies to the Chinese Market, and Claudine Gordon (left) sales and customer support manager for DHL Express (Jamaica) during the 'Trends and Opportunities for Doing Business with China' workshop staged at JAMPRO's head office in New Kingston on August 15, 2011. The event, which attracted members of the local export community, was organised by JAMPRO in partnership with DHL and RGX.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding (left) and Chief Executive Officer of COMPLANT Group of Companies,Tang Jianguo, symbolically exchange a local sugarcane plant at the handover ceremony of the Jamaican Government sugar assets to Pan Caribbean Sugar Company, Complant's Jamaican subsidiary, at the Jamaica Pegaus Hotel, New Kingston on Tuesday, August 16, 2011. The Chinese company has acquired three factories- Frome in Westmoreland, Bernard Lodge in St Catherine and Monymusk in Clarendon - for US$9 million and has committed investments of at least US$156 million to renovate the factories and sugar cane lands over the next four years. - JIS