Business

The Kevin Hendrickson-led Quivin Holdings, having acquired a block of shares just over a month ago which took its ownership to more than 90 per cent, has now offered to buy out all the remaining shares in The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in an attempt to gain...

Business owners in the Newport West shipping community have expressed their disappointment at the pace at which the improvement of the roads and drains in the community is being carried out.Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Shipping...

THE DEBT that has been affecting the nations - Italy, Greece, Jamaica and so on - should not be looked at solely in a negative light. In Biblical economics, there is always each potential of converting debt to wealth...

HALSE HALL, Clarendon: AS THE shortage of jobs continues to make life miserable for many Jamaicans, the unemployed are being urged to start businesses of their own.This call came recently...

I was recently told a story in which an ancillary worker in a small business with a total of four employees was repeatedly given verbal and written warnings by her supervisor on account of her tardiness.

Since 1964, the Caribbean has received European development assistance.

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The University of Technology Jamaica saw its surplus rise by $261 million or 45 per cent on the back of increases in income from tuition and accommodation fees and an expanding student population during its last financial year.

Lasco Financial's revenues are expected to jump 40 per cent from the doubling of its MoneyGram remittance locations to 155 with the pending acquisition of Supreme Ventures Limited's (SVL) interest in that business.

Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, Things Jamaican, the retail arm of the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), has added an e-commerce portal, which is expected to improve sales for entrepreneurs who market their products through its five-store network.

The British government is selling mortgage lender Northern Rock, the country's first victim of the credit crisis, to Richard Branson's Virgin Money. Virgin Money, which is part of the wider Virgin Group, is paying £747 million...