Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited has declared a final price of J$3,091 per box of coffee for the 2011/12 crop, according to Norman Grant, the company’s managing director and chief executive officer.
A prosecutor has told jurors at Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's fraud trial that computer hard drives belonging to the outside auditor for Stanford's Caribbean bank apparently were erased after the auditor died.
WESTERN BUREAU: CENTRAL ST JAMES Member of Parliament Lloyd B.Smith last Friday said he would be seeking an urgent meeting with the St James Parish Council and the administrators of the Charles Gordon market...
Up to now Europe has promoted the idea that the trading of permits to emit carbon is the best way to cap greenhouse gas emissions by aircraft and maritime transport.
The Ministry of Agriculture has identified 500 acres of land to be used for the production of ginger and turmeric and is formulating a programme to encourage farmers to grow the spices.
Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited will pay farmers who supply the plant a final price of J$3,091 per box of coffee cherry, according to managing director Senator Norman Grant.
Jamaicans are less tetchy about the treatment meted out to them by insurers of their homes and autos, but they remain peeved at the people who handle their pensions and investments, according to the most recent data.
National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jamaica will be targeting new business by going after the consumers of credit - whether through loans or credit card usage.
The euro rose to an 11-week high against the dollar Fri-day on increasing optimism about the global economy.The dollar hit a seven-month high against the yen, a week after the Bank of Japan announced a surprise increase of its economic stimulus...
The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, and the South African High Commission (SAHC) have started a year of celebrating milestones important to both countries.
WHEN DANIELLE Powell heard Laurie Mahfood talking about a group of more than 50 Americans volunteering to fly down to Jamaica over the weekend to build some 21 houses for people they did not know, she got interested, even without knowing the details.
LENNON HIGH School is well known as a powerhouse in schoolgirl football, but is maybe less recognised as a major producer of meats and vegetables, which are produced on its modern farm in the cool hills of the Mocho Mountains in Clarendon.
The Caribbean Court of Justice on Thursday ruled against Suriname for failing to impose a tax on non-CARICOM flour in order to protect a Trinidadian firm, in Paramaribo’s first case before the court over Caribbean Community trade disputes.
There was nothing "extravagant" about millions that were paid to the outside auditor of jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's Caribbean bank, an accountant told jurors Thursday at the financier's fraud trial.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is providing J$29 million in emergency aid to combat the infestation of farms affected by the coffee berry borer.
National Commercial Bank Jamaica's Patrick Hylton said the organization would continue to build on strengthening efficiency and productivity, growth enhancement and people development.
