Business

Sagres Energy announced that it would invest another CDN$2.94 million (J$250m) in its search for oil in Jamaica, its largest quarterly capital outlay to date, but says it continues to search for a partner to share the...

Businessman Winston Lee has completed at least seven of the 16 shops he is developing near Cross Roads in St Andrew. The new State Mall complex under development will eventually replace the grocery business, Key Foods Supermarket....

The St Lucia government has approved a number of proposals that its industry officials say will enhance the island's reputation as a leading yachting destination.

Gassan Azan and business partner Adam Epstein say they will invest J$2 billion in a new chain of gaming shops, the first of which is already open for business in downtown Kingston.The...

Stakeholders in the shipping industry were last week updated on the latest International Commercial Terms (INCOTERMS) governing trade.The shipping interests were updated during the Seaboard Jamaica-sponsored Lunch and Learn Seminar, held at the Shipping...

Japan's economy grew for the first time in four quarters in a comeback from the earthquake and tsunami disaster that already faces multiple global headwinds.The world's No 3 economy expanded at an annualised rate of six per cent in the July-September...

ST MARGARET'S BAY, Portland: THE CAYMAN Islands is eyeing China Harbour Engineering Company to construct a pier in that country. Speaking with The Gleaner during a tour of the Rio Grande bridge at St Margaret's Bay in Portland last Thursday...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Robert Montague, last Friday commissioned a photovoltaic electric power-generating system into service at the Hounslow Research and Demonstration Plot in St Elizabeth.Montague said the system...

Investor appetite for fixed-income products has diminished as interest rates fall, according to several Kingston analysts, who say the market is now more eager for equities and mutual funds.

I drive a 2008 Suzuki Grande Vitara. It was involved in an accident last August with a Nissan Sentra. The collision occurred on Hope Road near Andrews Memorial Hospital. The repair bill for my car is J$1.4 million.

I am very interested in trading on the Jamaican stock market. I am new to this and need as much information as possible. Firstly, what legitimate organisations facilitate the initial set-up of accounts to be used in trading? What is the minimum amount of stocks that can be initially purchased?

JAMPRO is building a market intelligence portal for exporters that it says should be operational by year end.