Downtown Kingston

Foot Traffic
Looking down King Street from the St William Grant Park, it's a sea of activity as pedestrians and motorists go about their business.
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Glam and the City
Inside the new-look Image shoe store on Orange Street.
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Feeling Lucky?
Sizzling Slots on Princess Street in downtown Kingston ready to entertain customers.
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Eye Sore
Despite the thrust to change the face of downtown Kingston, infrastructural deficiencies like this persist in certain parts of the shopping mecca.
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Sell Off!
Hundreds of vendors ply their wares downtown. Competition is stiff so creative vendors like this undergarment vendor employ comic gimmicks to attract consumers’ attention.
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Clean Fun
School boys, who had removed their uniform shirts, were having clean fun with their female colleague at the Kingston waterfront after school.
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Going Digital
Digicel models pose for the audience during the launch of the telecommunications firms launch of its new 4G mobile service, held at Victoria Pier in downtown Kingston.
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Economic Opportunity
This handcart man found a way to earn some money by pushing pedestrians across a flooded street for $20 in downtown Kingston.
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Change of Base
Digicel has taken the lead among corporate entities that plan to move the centre of commerce back downtown. This is the planned Digicel headquarters in downtown Kingston.
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Coming Soon
A motor cycle ride pass the future home of the Supreme Venture at the intersection of Harbour and Gold Street in downtown Kingston.
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Queen's Beacon
Lighting of the Beacon Ceremony in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2nd, held at St. William Grant Park, in downtown Kingston on June 4, 2012.
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Pop of Culture
Saint International ‘painted the town white’ with their CityStyle, held at the Urban Development Commission's southern car park on Ocean Boulevard in May 2012.
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Uptown Downtown
Saint International CEO Deiwight Peters had this to say about taking the high-class fashion show downtown, "If you're going to try and transform, you can't use the usual downtown events, you have to use things that are deliberately created for uptown and then take it downtown."
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High Stepping
The Eagles Drum and Bugle Corps entertain the crowd at the Military Display and Air Show at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on Labour Day.
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Fighter Jet
A fighter jet cuts through the air at the Military Display and Air Show at the waterfront in downtown Kingston on Labour Day.
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Look at That!
Spectators look on in amazement as a Canadian Air Force fighter jet performs a routine in the air over the Corporate Area on Labour Day.
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Look out below!
A member of the Jamaica Defence Force's trained lifeguards is headed for the water during rescue simulations at the Military Display and Air Show held at the waterfront in downtown Kingston.
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Take flight
A boy dives into the Kingston Harbour. GraceKennedy CEO Don Wehby says he is particularly upbeat about the economic prospects of the downtown Kingston redevelopment project during the Military Display and Air Show on Labour Day.
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Shoppers Parade
Downtown is abuzz with activity every day. But commerce picks up towards the end of the week and on the weekend as bargain hunters from all over the island converge on the shopping district.
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Justice Squared
Justice Square in downtown Kingston that is under construction. The $399 million project is intended to ease the backlog in the justice system with the addition of new court rooms and the upgrading of the Supreme Court.
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Party Express
Scores of patrons prepare to board the music train during the Heineken Inspire awards and party at the old train station on Peachon Street downtown Kingston, on Saturday, April 28.
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Paint Job
The Nat Larmans and Son Optical Repairs building at the intersection of John's Lane and Sutton Street gets a paint job under the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce downtown Kingston clean-up initiative.
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In Memoriam
Jennifer Allen, an employee at the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation, cleans the monument at Secret Gardens in downtown Kingston yesterday. The monument was erected in honour of the nation's slain children.
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Light a Candle
Darlington Seaton places a candle on the monument for slain children at Secret Gardens in downtown Kingston during the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation's Child Month vigil.
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Bacchanal!
Revellers in the downtown Carnival Road parade in Kingston.
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Eviction
Several impoverished families in downtown Kingston make their home in long abandoned buildings. Sometimes they are asked to leave, like these families that resided at a state-property at the corner of East and Beeston streets. In May an eviction notice warned 40 adults and 26 children who resided here to leave the premises.
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Throwback
Panorama of downtown Kingston showing the Christmas greeting and Jamaica 300 arch erected in Victoria Square by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation; in the centre of Victoria Park, the city's Christmas tree being put into place for the big lighting-up ceremony.
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Help!
While the signs of a new downtown are emerging, sights like this one at the intersection of Sutton Street and Johns Lane are still common.
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Hollow Halls
The old Attorney General's Department building at the intersection of Barry and Church streets in downtown Kingston.
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Pomp and Pageantry
Members of the First Battalion of the Jamaica Regiment of the Jamaica Defence Force during the ceremonial opening of the 2012-2013 session of Parliament at Gordon House in Kingston on May 10, 2012.
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Gleaner Library
All of these photos and more are available for purchase at the Gleaner Library at 7 North Street, Kingston. Tel: (876) 922-3400 ext 6309. Email:library@gleanerjm.com
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