The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is more optimistic about the global economy after seeing faster United States (US) growth and a coordinated effort in Europe to address its debt crisis.The global lending organisation said Tuesday that the US...
Governors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will meet in the Cayman Islands next month for their annual meeting, according to a statement released by the bank on Tuesday.Premier McKeeva Bush, who has been serving as chairman...
Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited's (MBCF) signature Jablum product line is now listed within Harvey Nichols, a move which will take the brand into the homes of 170,000 online shoppers and six...
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer says the United States (US) has not done enough to settle a long outstanding Internet gaming dispute with Antigua and Barbuda.The Antiguan PM met with the US Trade Representative Ron Kirk on the issue on the weekend...
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth:NEWLY INSTALLED mayor of the St Elizabeth Parish Council, Everton Fisher, has said he will take a stand against vendors and taxi operators in the parish who use the streets...
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Monday proposed a bill to nationalise the YPF oil company that is controlled by Spain's Repsol, moving ahead with the plan despite fierce opposition from Madrid.Fernandez said in an address to the country that...
Jim Yong Kim, an American who is president of Dartmouth College, has been chosen to be the next president of the World Bank. His selection Monday extends the United States hold on the top job at the 187-nation development agency...
Government fears that a bustling business may develop in the selling of new widescreen televisions with analog technology dumped from developed digitalised markets for cheap sale in Jamaica.The concerns arose amid local preparations to switch over...
LIME has announced it is rolling out a slate of low-cost prepaid mobile Internet service packages with rates cut by as much as 66 per cent. The telecommunications firm said in a release yesterday that the move was part of its continuing drive to increase Internet penetration nationally...
Former National Commercial Bank (NCB) employee, Winston Henry, has been freed of charges of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.In June 2010, Henry was charged jointly with former treasury vice-president of First Global Bank, Rohan Rose.It was...
It was scarcely surprising to hear that when Caribbean foreign ministers met in January with their British counterpart, the most divisive issue was the UK's discriminatory tax on travel,...
Spanish officials warned Argentina last Friday that the country risks becoming "an international pariah" if it follows through on its threats to wrest control of Spanish-owned energy company Repsol's majority stake in its South American YPF...
The market for mid to upper priced homes valued at $25 million and over is coming back to life, buffered by the mortgage wars that led to home loans falling below 10 per cent.
NEM Insurance Company Limited is to be rebranded as JN General Insurance Company, to align with the brand of parent company Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS)...
IT'S BEEN 20 years since Hartnel McCalla has been operating a shop in his hometown of Sandy Ground in west central St Catherine. The business was established to boost earnings from his farming activities. However, since the passage of Tropical Storm Nicole in September 2010, McCalla's entrepreneurial activities have hit a brick wall.
BEE FARMERS in St Mary are moving beyond the traditional products associated with apiculture such as honey, wax, and pollen and moving well up the value-added chain with a range of items including a tonic, aphrodisiac, medicine, and sandwich spread.
