Business

Insurance conglomerate Guardian Holdings Limited said Monday that it has concluded the sale of Jubilee Group Holdings Limited, its Lloyd's of London business, to Ryan Specialty Group LLC.The transaction was finalised on September 23, after regulators...

Emera Inc on Tuesday announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Emera Caribbean Limited has agreed to sell its 19.1 per cent interest in LUCELEC to Barbados-based Light & Power Holdings Limited (LPH) for US$25.8 million.

Greece weeks away from bankruptcy - The Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 index fell 1.6 per cent early Tuesday, bringing it into what many consider to be a bear market, but later recovered ground.

In many countries, including Jamaica, companies have traditionally been required by law to appoint a company secretary. Despite the title, the role is not a secretarial or clerical one in the usual sense...

FirstCaribbean International Bank will acquire two regional companies, CIBC Bank and Trust Company based in Cayman, and CIBC Trust Company in the Bahamas, from its parent in a shares-only transaction that will result in a marginal uptick of CIBC's...

The Port of Falmouth was presented the Port of the Year Award at the Seatrade Insider Cruise Awards 2011, held at Seatrade Europe, Schmidts Tivoli Theatre, in Hamburg Germany on September 27....

Oil is starting the last quarter of 2011 at the lowest level in more than a year as Greece's debt crisis and the possibility of another recession spooks investors.Benchmark crude on Monday fell 59 cents to US$78.64 per barrel in early afternoon trading...

Like her neighbours in the rural fishing village of Portland Cottage in Clarendon, Ann-Marie Daley's life and livelihood were ravaged by the 'brutish' Hurricane Ivan in 2004."I lost my chicken coop, I lost my boat, I lost everything," the JN Small...

A FUNDAMENTAL promise made by Bruce Golding when he became prime minister in 2007 was that he would be the chief servant of the people. He promised, among other things, to construct a social and economic ladder to enable the poor and ignored...

Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, scepticism about climate change appears to be gaining wider global credence.

Consultant actuary Constance Hall, an expert in the field of pensions, is advocating major changes to the current national insurance scheme (NIS), starting with a doubling of the size of contributions, to strengthen and...

There's no denying that the decline in Jamaica's ranking in the 2011 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) has given pause to consider the negative global perception of Jamaica and the potential impact on business and investor confidence.