Gateway National Recreation Area is a 26,607-acre (10,767 ha) U.S. National Recreation Area in New York City and Monmouth County, New Jersey. It provides recreational opportunities that are not commonly found in a dense urban environment, including ocean swimming, bird watching, boating, hiking and camping. Ten million people visit Gateway annually.
Winifred is a feminine given name from the Anglo-Saxon wine and friþ ("peace"). It may refer to:
Saint Elizabeth, one of Jamaica's largest parishes, is located in the southwest of the island, in the county of Cornwall. Its capital, Black River, is located at the mouth of the Black River, the widest on the island.
Alligator Pond is a fishing village on the southwestern coast of Jamaica in the parish of Manchester.
Portland, with its capital town Port Antonio, is a parish located on Jamaica's northeast coast. It is situated to the north of St Thomas and to the east of St Mary in Surrey County. It is one of the rural areas of Jamaica, containing part of the Blue Mountains, where the Jamaican Maroon communities of Moore Town and Charles Town, Jamaica are located.
Sandals Resorts is a Jamaican operator of all-inclusive resorts for couples in the Caribbean and part of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), parent company of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, Grand Pineapple Beach Resorts, Fowl Cay Resort and several private villas. Founded by Jamaican-born Gordon "Butch" Stewart in 1981, SRI is based in Montego Bay, Jamaica and is responsible for resort development, service standards, training and day-to-day operations. Sandals Resorts International has properties throughout the Caribbean islands of Jamaica, The Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Turks & Caicos, and most recently Barbados, and Grenada with sixteen Sandals Resorts, three Beaches Resorts, one Grand Pineapple Beach Resort, one Fowl Cay private island resort and four villa properties in Jamaica.
Boston Beach is a coastal community on the north coast of the island of Jamaica, with a public beach which is one of the few beaches in Jamaica attracting surfers. It is located nine miles east of the town of Port Antonio.
Font Hill Beach is located in St Elizabeth, on the south coast of Jamaica, between Black River and Whitehouse. It is within a nature reserve on the Font Hill property owned by the Petroleum Company of Jamaica. It is an attractive, well kept beach with clean golden sand and safe swimming in a roped off area. Beyond the rope there is a shallow reef.
Doctor's Cave Beach Club, Montego Bay has been one of the most famous beaches in Jamaica for nearly a century.
Bluefields Beach Park is a very popular public beach in Bluefields in the south-east of Westmoreland, Jamaica. It gets very busy at weekends and holidays.
Hellshire Beach, Jamaica, is located near Portmore, and famed for its fried fish and safe swimming. It has near white sands with a very small trace of black sand. Exposed when there is a sea running to the south, the waters close to shore are often quite cloudy due to the stirred up sand.
Lloyd Barrington La Beach was a sprinter from Panama, who won two bronze medals during the 1948 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medals for Panama and for Central America. He also competed in the long jump.
Gut River is a river, beach and small hamlet on an isolated stretch of south facing coastline in Manchester, Jamaica. The name is said by the locals to derive from the German word for good.
Yendi Amira Phillipps is a Jamaican TV host, model and beauty queen who was the winner of the Miss Jamaica World 2007 beauty pageant, as well as the Miss Jamaica Universe 2010 pageant. She represented Jamaica at the Miss World 2007 contest held in Sanya, China and at Miss Universe 2010 held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on 23 August 2010, where she finished as the first runner up to Ximena Navarrete of Mexico. After Miss Universe Phillipps appeared in commercials for brands such as Toyota.
A nude beach, sometimes called a clothing-optional or free beach, is a beach where users are at liberty to be nude. Nude beaches usually have mixed bathing. Such beaches are usually on public lands, and any member of the public is allowed to use the facilities without membership in any movement or subscription to any personal belief. The use of the beach facilities is normally anonymous. Unlike a naturist resort or facility, there is normally no membership or vetting requirement for the use of a nude beach. The use of nude beach facilities is usually casual, not requiring pre-booking. Nude beaches may be official, unofficial, or illegal.
Jenaae Jackson (born June 1, 1990) is a Jamaican beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Earth Jamaica 2009 in August 2009. She is the third representative of Jamaica to compete in the international pageant, Miss Earth, since it started in 2001. Jackson represented Jamaica in the Miss Earth 2009, held in Boracay, Philippines. She placed first runner up to Gina Hargitay in the Miss Jamaica World 2013 Pageant. Jackson won the Miss Jamaica World Model Fast Track, placed first runner up in the Beach Beauty Fast Track, top 10 in the Sports Fast Track, and walked away with the coveted Best Skintone and Best Figure awards.
Long Bay Beach is an almost deserted 10 miles (16 km) crescent of black sand on the central south coast of Jamaica in Manchester Parish.
Southfield is a farming town on the southern ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains in St Elizabeth, Jamaica.
Winifred Gaskin, CCH, OD was an Afro-Guyanese educator, journalist and civil servant who entered politics. After a career in public service, she was appointed as the first high commissioner of Guyana to the Commonwealth Caribbean Countries organization. Her dedication to public service was honored with the Jamaican Order of Distinction and the Cacique's Crown of Honour, Guyana's second highest service award.
