Palace Amusement Company, which operates the largest chain of cinemas in the island, is putting in place plans to showcase live sports and pop concerts across its various venues in a bid to diversify its...
The remittance arm of the Jamaica National Building Society, JN Money Services Limited (JNMS), has launched an operation in The Bahamas, having signed an exclusive agent agreement with Bramer Money Transfer (BMT) trading as Cash N' Go.Details of the...
Music publishing start-up, Caribbean 2 World (C2W), will seek to raise up to $140 million in offering about a quarter of the company to the public, according to an investor update by its lead broker, Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL).
A Jamaica-born ex-McDonald's cook, cleared after beating two unruly female customers who first attacked him, plans to sue the fast-food giant.Rayon McIntosh, 31, said he feared for his life when the two unidentified women lunged over the counter...
In a landmark decision last week, a Jamaican high court judge held that people who use privately held firms or special purpose vehicles in takeover bids must show that they have the cash, or access to the money ...
The St Kitts and Nevis parliament will begin debating, on Tuesday, legislation giving effect to the Revised Treaty of Basseterre establishing the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Economic Union.The twin-island Federation signed ...
A federal rule adopted Monday places tighter restrictions on how US trading firms can invest their customers' money. The action comes amid a federal investigation into whether MF Global illegally tapped its clients' accounts before filing for bankruptcy....
STRUGGLING TO drum up business in a difficult economic climate, vendors at the craft market in downtown Kingston have introduced a Sunday special. "Things slow and many people have said they were not aware that the craft market was still open....
AFTER YEARS of leading a one-man campaign for a makeover of downtown Kingston, architect Al Richards has welcomed recent moves to achieve a rebirth of the city...
A SNAPSHOT of Jamaica's music history is captured in a mural which now brightens the section of Water Lane, near its intersection with East Street, in downtown Kingston....
The United States Justice Department approved Google's acquisition of online advertising service Admeld after concluding the deal wouldn't diminish competition in one of the Internet's most lucrative marketing niches.
The Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) has described as exploitation of the island's brand, the decision by REED's, a fast-growing US listed company, to describe its flagship ginger ale as 'Jamaican style', even though the raw material used in the blend is sourced from other countries.
Rapid advancement in technology will, within a couple of years, eliminate the need for some workers and render the contemporary workplace obsolete, according to Professor Anthony Clayton of the Institute of Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies.
Washington must restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from the state's five oil refineries and possibly other industries under a federal judge's ruling on Friday.
FACE OF THE WEEK - Earl Patrick, general manager, business development and marketing at National Rums Jamaica Limited, appears mesmerised by the Monymusk overproof rum durng its launch at the factory's distillery in Clarendon last week.
I am a taxi operator. The vehicle I drive is registered in my wife's name. On May 17, this year, another vehicle came over on my side of the road and severely damaged the taxi. The driver admitted that he was at fault. The assessment was done and all the relevant documents submitted to my wife's insurer within a few days.
With the present Eu-rozone on the point of collapse, the world's developed economies on the brink of a second recession, and a slowing in advanced developing economies such as China and Brazil, the prospects for near-term growth in the Caribbean appear bleak.
Japan's prime minister said Thursday he will compile a fourth extra budget to support the nation's economy amid the growing effects of a strong yen, flooding in Thailand, and the Eurozone crisis.Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told a news conference that...
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the second straight week, a sign the hiring market is recovering at a slow and uneven pace....
Retailers reported strong sales gains in November, boosted by a discount-fuelled buying binge for the start of the holiday shopping season last weekend...
Bids for the Wallenford Coffee Company are being scrutinised by a team from the Development Bank of Jamaica with a view to making recommendations to Cabinet, Milverton Reynolds, the bank's managing director, has confirmed.
Jamaicans in the diaspora have been challenged to exploit the country's potential for realising a significant share of the United States (US) billion-dollar business process outsourcing (BPO) industry....
Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL), for the second successive year, has increased measures to improve cargo clearance during the busy Christmas season. KWL will be open for business on three Saturdays in December leading up to Christmas, starting this...
Mount Royal Estate development company managing director, Ransford White, is seeking an investor to lease a new 10,000-square-foot multilevel space designed for a cinema in Portmore Pines, St Catherine.The entrepreneur, who owns the triple-phase...
