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Jamaica group gives small business loans

By Bryan Schwartzman

For several weeks 54-year-old Juan Aybar has mulled over whether or not to deposit the $56,000 check he received from the Greater Jamaica Development Corp.

The loan could bring in more machinery, more employees and ultimately more business to his Sunshine Dry Cleaners in downtown Jamaica. Still, there was one thing Aybar, a native of the Dominican Republic, didn