Business

The Automobile Dealers Association (ADA) has singled out five of 145 recommendations by the Private Sector Working Group (PSWG) on tax reform that impact business done by auto traders, but has only fully endorsed one...

Lottery operator Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) has recorded strong year-end results, posting a 43.9 per cent increase in net profit to J$606 million, but it fell short of its prediction to double last year's earnings of J$421 million due to larger than...

The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), as part of its 30th annual awards, has nominated 12 companies and three individuals to be honoured for their achievements in categories ranging from leadership to culture and the attainment of corporate objectives...

Century Aluminum Limited, former owner of St Ann Bauxite Company which sold out its local operations during the bauxite downturn, says it is mulling re-entering the local alumina sector under partnership to set up a 1.5-million tonne alumina plant....

The Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League (JCCUL) has created an e-payment system for mobile top-up and bill payment for its membership of near one million members in 40 credit unions nationwide....

The acquisition of the mortgage portfolio of an unnamed company and rising demand in the middle- and high-income real estate markets led to record growth for Scotia Jamaica Building Society (SJBS) last year.General Manager Gladstone Whitelocke says...

Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) has recorded strong year-end results, posting a 43.9 per cent increase in net profit to J$606 million

Jurors in the recent trial of convicted Texas financier Allen Stanford say his arrogance and greed as well as compelling evidence by his former chief financial officer were primarily responsible for his conviction and the forfeiture of US$330 million...

WITH THE Students' Loan Bureau joining the growing list of companies heading downtown Kingston, more persons are asking where staff members will eat. This is a major concern for companies looking to set up shop downtown Kingston to take advantage...

Yahoo is filing a lawsuit against Facebook over patents, following through on a threat it made last month.

Premier Joseph Parry has warned that there will be job losses as the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) carries out a debt restructuring exercise and a reorganisation of government departments and statutory bodies....

Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos.