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Jades, S.A. welcomed several congressmen and senators from the United States, including John Cornyn and Richard Shelby.

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Jades S.A. celebrated their 30th anniversary in May 2004 with a party to introduce our new jewelry designer, Andrea Novella, our 19 year old granddaughter. She inaugurated her own jewelry design business this year, Novella Creations, to help defray the cost of her freshman year at NYU. 

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Jades, S.A. helped workers rom Camotan, one of the poorest and most remote areas of Guatemala, to learn to polish, grind, shape, and drill a soft calcite stone from their own land.
 

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Jades S.A. is selling Jade Museum/Showroom franchises in the region to local owner-operators. We are excited about the success of the first two, Ambergris Jade Museum on Ambergris Key and Maya Jade Museum of Belize in Belize City. We are moving on others in Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador.

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A new cruise port facility on the pacific coast at Puerto Quetzal was inaugurated with the arrival of Holland America’s ship “Zaandam” on May 5, 2004. Mary Lou Ridinger was aboard lecturing on Maya Archaeology and Jade.

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Jades S.A. is doing its part to sustain the recently renewed Sister City relationship with Coral Gables, Fla., near Miami. Sales Manager Veronica Ortiz traveled to Coral Gables last September with a contingent of Antigua business and civic leaders.

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While scouring the Sierra de las Minas for additional sources of blue jadeite that the ancient olmecs had mined, Jake Ridinger discovered an untouched Mayan archaeological site.

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The Antigua chapter of Rotary International, under the leadership of new president Juan Antonio Meza, is introducing new members. 

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Rave Reviews!

Antigua, Guatemala 
Arguably the most picture-perfect colonial city in the Americas.
October 24, 2002: 3:41 PM EDT 
By Glenn Coleman, Money Magazine Senior Editor

ANTIGUA, Guatemala (Money Magazine) – Stuffed from lunch, my wife and I sat for an extra-long while at our restaurant table, holding hands by a tropical garden in a Spanish colonial mansion more than two [...]

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When Pope John Paul II made his historic trip to Guatemala in July, he had Guatemalan Jade at hand. 

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Panama President Mireya Elisa Moscoso visited Jades S.A. showroom in Antigua prior to the papal visit to Guatemala in late July. President Moscoso, a trained interior designer, was elected in 1999, the first woman president of Panama. Her late husband was Arnulfo Arias, who had been president three times. President Moscoco defeated her principal contender [...]

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The archaeological team working at Abaj Takalik, near the municipality of El Asintal in Guatemala’s department of Retalhuleu, discovered a unique mask in a newly excavated burial site at this ancient Maya community.

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Jades S.A. employees and their families needn’t wait in the doctor’s office anymore. The doctor comes to them, courtesy of the company.

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