Minister Phillip Paulwell has announced plans to set up a bipartisan energy council tasked with achieving up to 62 per cent reduction in energy costs paid by households and...
AMBASSADOR DERICK Heaven, executive chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority, has charged other agricultural sector leaders to stand up for their rights instead of allowing others to misrepresent their interests, as has been happening over the years.
ONE OF three employees of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in western Jamaica is still suffering from respiratory complications more than a year after receiving medical attention after being exposed to a lethal pesticide at the workplace.
THE TRELAWNY Parish Council is to face court action if public-health concerns existing in three of its facilities are not addressed in 28 days. It was revealed at Thursday's monthly meeting of the parish council that the public health department has served four summonses on the parish council, citing outstanding breaches of the Public Health Act.
THE USE of pesticides to control household pests should be a last resort, according to Registrar of the Pest Control Authority (PCA) Michael Ramsay. He believes that many householders are contributing to the growth of pests such as roaches by their failure to observe basic sanitation practices.
Hoping to secure a piece of the business process outsourcing (BPO) market, Jamaica plans to sell itself to businesses in India as a near-shore access point to the United States with the added advantage of an English-speaking workforce....
Sagres Energy has got a four-month extension from state company the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) to seek a drilling partner in its quest for oil off the shores of Jamaica. It's the first major extension offered to the Canadian company...
Greece has reached a tentative agreement on new austerity cuts demanded by creditors to release a €130-billion (US$173 billion) bailout, hours before a crucial meeting of finance ministers in Brussels, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos' office said...
PepsiCo said it plans to cut 8,700 jobs, or about three per cent of its workforce, as it tries to offset higher costs for ingredients and increased spending on advertising in North America.The maker of everything from Pepsi soda to Doritos chips said it...
According to the latest remittance report from the Bank of Jamaica, for January to November 2011, total inflows continued to improve although they are still below the pre-recession high point reached in the corresponding period of 2008....
A ruling by the attorney general's (AG) office in December has effectively curtailed the powers of the Urban Development Corporation to act as planning authority for its own developments...
Jamaica can slash oil imports by US$300 million annually or roughly 10 per cent based on the implementation of Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) planned 360-megawatt power project, says the utility's chief financial officer Dan Theoc....
There is a condescending chorus of comments by prominent bankers and economists protesting the woes of capitalism as an acknowledgement to the occupiers of Wall Street.They ponder the limits of market economics and its tendency towards income...
Mobile and broadband offers the greatest scope for business growth, but LIME Jamaica still earns most of its cash from its fixed line operations, according to president Garfield Sinclair. Broadbank and fixed line services account for up to 70 per cent...
Citigroup's customised prepaid card issued to persons who do business with the banking group's corporate clientele, whether as employees, customers or sales agents, was launched in Jamaica at the top of the month.The MasterCard-branded Citi Prepaid...
Mortgage providers did marginally higher business last year, according to the National Land Agency (NLA), which registers all new transactions.New mortgages registered were 2.5 per cent higher at 12,138, compared to the 11,834 registered in 2010....
Businessman Stephen Hill said Tuesday that Jamaica has no future in manufacturing against large markets with greater economies of scale and should power down its plants to focus on sectors in which it has comparative...
As an investment banker his tone was fairly modulated. But inside Jamaica's take-no-prisoners telecoms market, Garfield 'Garry' Sinclair is confrontational, direct and stoked for a fight....
The PCJ said the Jamaican government has engaged only in preliminary discussions with the Canadian-based Solamon Energy Corporation which said it plans to invest US444 m in a solar power plant in Ja.
Before the prosecution's star witness in the fraud trial of jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford finished testifying Wednesday, he pointed to his former boss sitting at the defence table.
