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Published:Sunday | October 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The University of Technology has selected HDB Construction Limited to develop its new hospitality school, but needs Cabinet to sign off on the contract valued at J$450.99 million.

Published:Sunday | October 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

As companies set up their annual strategic-planning retreats, there is a natural temptation to forget about the future, and focus on today. While the recession has driven us to examine daily cash flow, it is a mistake to think that the long-term future doesn't matter.

Published:Sunday | October 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Fertiliser company Newport Fersan Jamaica will be developing a pier to accommodate large ships as the company looks to overseas markets in search of growth.

Published:Sunday | October 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Port Authority's Rosalie Donaldson and Transport Minister Mike Henry (right), step up for the trophy presented by World Travel Awards founder Graham Cooke (centre) for the Historic Falmouth Cruise Port, which was selected as the Leading Tourism Development Project in the Caribbean.

Published:Sunday | October 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Barbados and Panama are 'on the verge of cementing air links as a vital element' in their efforts to strengthen cooperation in the areas of tourism and culture.

Published:Sunday | October 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

In December of 1991, I bought a Shelter Life Policy with Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Society. The premium was J$544.10 per month. My beneficiary would get J$300,000 when I died. I paid the premium for nearly 20 years and only took J$25,000 and J$12,000 from the policy. Now I am told that I have four options to keep the policy relevant.

Published:Sunday | October 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The news from Europe is not good. So serious has its sovereign debt crisis become, that at worst it threatens not only to bring down the eurozone but also to make unviable the European integration process.

Published:Saturday | October 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister-designate Andrew Holness has vowed to move swiftly to reduce the bureaucracy which is stifling businesses locally.

Published:Saturday | October 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller yesterday called for a forensic audit of the operations of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC).

Published:Saturday | October 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WORK TO neutralise the cyanide-polluted water at the AUSJAM gold-mining facility in Kraal, Clarendon, is continuing, despite an assurance from the independent consultant engaged to carry out the task that it would have been completed by the end of July.

Published:Saturday | October 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SUDENE JOHNSON, a 17-year-old lower sixth-form student of Immaculate Conception High School and resident of Gregory Park in St Catherine, is the 2011 winner of the Elder Thomas Scholarship, valued at $30,000. It is part of the educational programme implemented by the Forward Step Foundation, as it seeks to rekindle the community plagued by many ills.

Published:Saturday | October 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

HORNS BLARED, drowning words from cursing taxi operators, as 41-year-old Navlet Whittaker meandered through traffic in downtown Mandeville; she is a vendor under divine order.

Published:Saturday | October 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Rural Agricultural Develop-ment Authority (RADA), in an effort to provide assistance to farmers in the parish, has implemented several practices and programmes, such as the rental of small tools and a tilling service to assist farmers with land tillage.

Published:Friday | October 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The divestment of Air Jamaica cost some US$164 million (J$14 billion), according to Dennis Chung, who said the figure was about US$40 million less than budgeted...

Published:Friday | October 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

In May, this column asked whether fallout from the Wall Street meltdown could kill the dollar standard. In general, the view is 'No, it won't'. Yet, US policy has not exhibited behaviour befitting its pre-eminent position as provider of the world's...

Published:Friday | October 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Black Sand Acquisition Inc announced Tuesday that it would extend its hostile takeover offer for Lascelles deMercado to yearend...

Published:Friday | October 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The strength of Jamaica's junior stock market has lit a spark in Trinidad and Tobago, which is now thinking of replicating the experience on its home turf but with a few tweaks...

Published:Friday | October 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is set to rescind its decision to sell a state-owned property in downtown Kingston to Bashco Trading Company, having admitted to breaching the Government's divestment guidelines because it failed to advertise...

Published:Friday | October 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The report that the food price index of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) fell in September for the third consecutive month as oil prices were also declining is encouraging news, especially for poor people in developing countries who have been...

Published:Friday | October 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica dipped seven spots to rank 88 in the Doing Business Report 2012 representing its seventh straight year of decline due to difficulty obtaining electricity supply and a burdensome tax structure...

Published:Thursday | October 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

CABINET MINISTER Clive Mullings was on Tuesday ridiculed by the Opposition for an apparent slip in his understanding of fiscal matters, when he attempted to defend an assertion that Jamaica has not experienced...

Published:Thursday | October 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Citigroup has agreed to pay US$285 million to settle civil fraud charges that it misled buyers of complex mortgage investments just as the housing market was starting to collapse.The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday that the big Wall...

Published:Thursday | October 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Stocks were mixed in midday trading Wednesday as investors weighed a rare earnings miss by Apple Inc against a surprise jump in new-home construction last month.Apple slumped four per cent after the company's income and revenue fell short of forecasts.

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended a two-year wage freeze as Barbados seeks to deal with a subdued economy.In a statement issued on Monday night following a two-week visit to the island...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Grenada, which recently gave low-cost carrier, REDjet, permission to fly to the island, on Monday reaffirmed its support for regional airline LIAT."As minister for civil aviation, I have come to realise that despite all of the airlines we have...

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