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Jamaica Broilers said it will be petitioning the newly-elected government to implement wheeling of power.

Wendy's new CEO on Monday called the dour results of the past few years "self-inflicted wounds" and vowed to do better, laying out plans that included hiring top-tier workers and reclaiming market share from higher-end competitors like Five Guys and...

GraceKennedy Group CEO, Don Wehby, has announced a number of management changes within the Group.

The University of Technology Jamaica (UTech) has pushed back at claims that engineering enrolment levels are down and that graduates are unable to find jobs, saying the data tells a different story. At the same time, UTech has indicated that it is recruiting full-time and part-time lecturers from among industry members to staff some of its technical programmes...

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National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) saw its non-performing loan portfolio increased by almost 125 per cent for the quarter ended December 2011 driven by a large debt which became non-performing in March 2011. Its first quarter profits fell resulting from a decline in net interest income.

Caribbean governments, tourist boards and hoteliers are no strangers to the difficulties of dealing with the cruise lines when it comes to issues that touch their loosely regulated but highly profitable industry. They may therefore be less than surprised by the public response to some of the more worrying aspects of the January 13 capsizing of the Costa Concordia off the Italian coast with the loss of 16 lives.

Scotiabank Jamaica has restructured and expanded it deposit services to create a new 'suite' of 12 products, each tailored to different types of customers. But one of the new accounts will require minimum savings of J$100,000, while the structure also creates 'premium' savers whose minimum balance will be J$500,000.

SOME DELINQUENT taxpayers, who could face strong action if they fail to settle their outstanding amounts with local tax authorities, are being offered a lifeline from their umbrella groups to assist in bringing their books up to date.

WHEN ORAL Lewis and friends sent off a load of Scotch bonnet peppers to the AMC Complex in the Corporate Area, from where it would be shipped to the United States, they were already counting the profits and anticipating the next shipment. When news came that the peppers were rejected after being deemed too stale for export, it was a hard blow...

Chinese investment abroad is drawing scrutiny as global leaders increasingly look to China to prop up the world economy, even as some remain wary of the country's dominance.The head of one of China's biggest private equity firms said Thursday that...