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Toxic Night Club (no phone, Thurs.\Sat.) in Leddister's Plaza is the best spot in town to get your groove on at night should you be stranded in Santa Cruz.

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1322. Record Mart

Record Mart (right before Singer in Santa plaza, tel. 876/966-2564) sells both domestic records and imports with plenty of reggae, R&B, and hip-hop.

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Chariots Hotel (Leeds, tel. 876/966-3860, US$40\75) has a pool, restaurant, and bar. Heading west through Santa Cruz, turn left at the stoplight onto Coke Drive, pass RBTT bank and then NCB, four kilometers from Santa Cruz on the road to Malvern. The restaurant serves typical Jamaican dishes (US$4\8.50).

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Kool Rooms Guest House (just west of the last stoplight in Santa Cruz, cell tel. 876/312-8735, tel. 876/387-9417, vernonbourne@yahoo.com, US$50) has four rooms with two queen-size or two double beds in each room with air-conditioning, cable TV, and en suite bathrooms with tub and shower.

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Grills & Frills (39 Main St., across from Rapid True Value, tel. 876/966-3515, Mon.\Sat. 10 a.m.\10 p.m, US$3\4.50) serves Boston-style jerk chicken and pork and roast fish, as well as other Jamaican staples.

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Miguel's Cafe (5 Jewel Close, tel. 876/966-4304, 8 a.m.\9:30 p.m Mon.\Sat., until 10 p.m Fri. and Sat., US$2.50\3.75) in the heart of town just below KFC has fried chicken, baked chicken, curry goat, stewed peas, and pork chops.

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Hinds Restaurant & Bakery (Santa Cruz Plaza, tel. 876/966-2234, 7:30 a.m.\5 p.m Mon.\Thurs., until 7 p.m Fri. and Sat., US$4\6) has decent Jamaican dishes liked fried, stewed, and baked chicken, as well as oxtail, curry goat, stew pork, and escovitch fish.

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1328. Services

G-Link World Internet Cafe is at Shop #21, Jake's Plaza (tel. 876/966-4497).

NCB (7 Coke Drive, tel. 876/966-2204) and Scotiabank (77 Main St., tel. 876/966-2230) have small branches with ATMs.

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Isolated from the rest of the island by the Santa Cruz mountains, which create the area's distinct coastal desert environment by capturing the westbound rainfall, Treasure Beach is a catch-all name for a series of bays and fishing villages that extend from Fort Charles at the greater community's western edge, to Billy's Bay, Frenchman's Bay, and Great Bay on the eastern edge of

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1330. History

The light complexion generally seen in Treasure Beach and St. Elizabeth is said to owe to Scots who had unsuccessfully settled in Darion Point, Panama, and were forced to flee. It is said that William III sent word that the Scots were not to come into any port, so they beached their ships at Treasure Beach.

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