JIS Services. Parish Profiles. Jamaica is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the largest English-speaking territory. Situated south of Cuba and west of Haiti in the North West region of the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica has a maximum length, from east to west, of about 235 km (146 mi); the maximum width being around 80 km (50 mi).
George Soros is one of the worldâs foremost philanthropists. He has given away more than $32 billion of his personal fortune to fund the Open Society Foundationsâ work around the world. He is also the founder and primary funder of the Central European University in Budapest, a leading regional center for the study of the social sciences.
SOPHROSYNE is a virtue through which people behave as the Law requires them to behave in respect to the bodily pleasures, and AKOLASIA is the opposite. (`wisdom'/`intemperance') ISOCRATES, Panegyric 50: