Lascelles Chin spent two decades building a company into what is now a household name and brand in Jamaica, offering food and pharmaceuticals products.
Caribbean Export Development Agency is offering European Union-funded aid of up to $3.6 million per applicant for food exporters who need help improving food-safety standards.
Perth, Western Australia: Commonwealth heads of government began deliberations Friday on a range of economic and social issues ostensibly expected to contribute to realistic development of member countries.
For the first time, Samsung Electronics Company shipped more smartphones in the latest quarter than tech industry darling Apple Inc.On the surface, this may look like a big upset in a world that affords the iPhone maker adulation and outsized...
Taiwan, which once enjoyed diplomatic relations with Grenada, said last Thursday it could not intervene in the dispute raging between its state-owned Export Import Bank and St George's, the Taipei Times newspaper reported.
European leaders clinched a deal Thursday they hope will mark a turning point in their two-year debt crisis, agreeing after a night of tense negotiations to have banks take bigger losses on Greece's debts and to boost the region's weapons against...
The Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce, complaining that its members were paying "a heavy price" since the state of emergency (SOE) was imposed on August 21, is urging government not to extend the measure when it expires in six weeks...
Finance Minister Nazim Burke says he has ordered an investigation into whether loans from Taiwan totaling EC$76 million (US$28.1 million) to Grenada before it broke off diplomatic relations in 2005 had been approved by parliament...
The United States Census Bureau's second-quarter 2011 report on the financial performance of the American manufacturing sector has provided fresh evidence of how companies have managed to boost their profits by clamping...
PERTH, Western Australia: The Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) says investment deals are on track to deploy US$10 billion in member countries over the next six to nine months.At the end of its three-day...
After six months of negotiation, Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has struck a deal with Jamaica Producers Group and Pan Jamaican Investment Trust for assets held by Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited (MBCF)....
National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) on Tuesday relaunched its Nation Builder credit line designed for small and medium-sized businesses.Patrick Hylton, group managing director, said the bank will make a J$1-billion pool...
Jamaica non-traditional food exports have risen close to 12 per cent in the first half of this year, a sign that traders have so far not been intimidated by impending laws that could disqualify the majority of them from doing business with the United...
Jamaica International Insurance Company (JIIC) estimates that it can grow premium income by as much as 15 per cent by targeting companies with large pools of customers with insurable assets....
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, owner of the Black Farmer Limited, is giving himself a year to introduce his trademark high-end sausages into Jamaican supermarkets...
The performance of Jamaican track star Usain Bolt in Daegu has bolstered Puma's third-quarter profits, the global athletics brand said in its September earnings report.Puma net earnings remained flat at €81.7 million but sales increased 10.2 per...
The industry and commerce ministry will be recommending the lifting of the ban on used tyres and the damaged car trade, and will attempt to boost the flagging used-car sector by raising the age limit on imported vehicles....
European governments will force their largest banks to quickly and significantly increase their cushions of capital in order to ride out market turmoil brought on by the debt crisis, officials announced Wednesday.By the end of June, the banks will need...
