Business

Striking workers employed with the Grenada branch of the Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT) were back on the job Thursday after a majority of workers voted to accept an 11 per cent across the board pay hike. The counterproposal from the bank's...

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham says Kerzner International has announced plans to transfer its ownership of the Atlantis Resorts and Paradise Island properties to the Canadian-based company, Brookfield. Ingraham told legislators that Kerzner International...

Conglomerate Lascelles deMercado (LdM) can now avoid issuing a director's circular in response to its hostile takeover bidders Black Sand Acquisition Group based on a court ruling yesterday, the company's management said in a release....

Jamaica has missed out on a rare half-billion dollar (US$6 million) a year opportunity to supply ginger to a United States-domiciled drinks company listed in the NASDAQ, the world's largest stock exchange by market...

Members of the Special Constabulary Force Association (SCFA) said they would be financially worse off under the system proposed to reform the current public-sector pension plan....

Record-keeping is critical for any farmer who is serious about the business of livestock. The records of farm activities are used to make management decisions towards the successful operation and expansion of the farming...

Major central banks around the globe teamed up Wednesday to ease the strains that Europe's debt crisis has placed on the world's financial system...

BUREAU OF Standards Jamaica (BSJ) executive, Stephen Farquharson, has highlighted the importance of a valid certification programme in enhancing the competitiveness of local agricultural produce....

With Italy sinking rapidly into financial chaos, the Eurozone's 17 finance ministers scrambled Tuesday to find enough money to give their rescue fund a veneer of credibility and the markets some reason to believe their embattled currency won't break...

The 17 finance ministers of the countries that use the euro converged on EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, in a desperate bid to save their currency - and to protect Europe, the United States, Asia and the rest of the global economy...

Barbados has launched a multimillion-dollar fund that it hopes will spur efforts towards the development of a renewable-energy sector which the authorities said is critical to restructuring the local economy as the island moves to become a world leader...

Telecommunications firm LIME has signed an agreement with the CARICOM secretariat to provide videoconferencing equipment and services to Jamaica and seven other member countries, as well as five other territories in the region....