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Attorney Milton Samuda was re-elected Tuesday for a fourth consecutive term as president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC). In his presidential speech, delivered ahead of his re-election, Samuda listed among his accomplishments...

A new bill for the adoption and application of the National Building Code, was tabled in the House of Representatives by Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Wednesday...

Power provider Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) said that its planned US$330 million (J$28 billion) power plant will be delayed due to a missed deadline by its regulator, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR)...

Taxing financial trades has been touted as a panacea for all kinds of global ills, a cash source to fight poverty and global warming.But the latest European attempt to introduce a worldwide standard 40 years after it was first conceived is facing stiff...

Milton Samuda, attorney at law, was unanimously re-elected as president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) during the organisation’s annual general meeting Tuesday.

Forget about Thomas Edison's famous saying about genius being one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration. How about this instead: Genius is making a way out of no way.

CLICO policyholders have headed to court with a challenge to new legislation passed last week by the Trinidad Parliament that bars legal action against the central bank for recovery of funds from the failed insurance company...

Gassan Azan has applied to the Manchester Parish Council for approval to construct another MegaMart store in the parish capital, Mandeville.While telephone calls to Azan went to voicemail, Dewaine Larmond, acting director of planning at the Manchester...

Caribbean stocks fell as 35,226,206 shares, valued at US$4,834,640, crossed the floors of the six stock exchanges across CARICOM, with 19 stocks advancing, 54 declining and 51 unchanged.Jamaican Teas Limited was the volume leader with 10,272,602 shares...

Lascelles deMercado and Company has turned to the courts to compel the Financial Services Commission (FSC) to declare the amended hostile bid by Black Sand Acquisition Group as being non-compliant with the regulator's...

Jamaica attracted roughly US$1 billion ($86 billion) in net investment last year when factoring all business activity, including foreign direct investment, according to a central bank report released last week....

HEAD OF the Kingston Central Police Division and the man charged with leading the policing in most of downtown Kingston, Superintendent Steve McGregor, has expressed confidence that the right measures are in place to keep the lid on crime in the commercial district....