PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):Trinidadian customs officials have seized nearly one tonne of compressed marijuana in a 40-foot refrigerated container that was reportedly shipped from Jamaica.In a statement, the Customs and Excise Department said that officers...
Caught up in a storm not of its own making, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is pushing ahead with what it does best - infrastructural projects. CHEC, one of the largest construction companies in the world, is the lead contractor for two...
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Dr Christopher Tufton, has urged manufacturers to use the opportunity provided by the existing low interest rates to retool their operations as part of the strategy towards building a more efficient and competitive industry.
Now that the passage of the First Supplementary Estimates has come and gone, the next major challenge facing the Golding administration is national buy-in to its Green Paper on Tax Reform for Jamaica.
I have several life insurance policies with one company. The premiums are paid monthly by deductions from my bank account. Recently, I visited the insurer's office to ask about one policy. While there I requested the service provider to use the computer to give me information about the other policies. After a long pause, she told me that a policy which had been in force for 20 years had matured in 2006.
Conglomerate GraceKennedy group says three of its food manufacturing operations are already up to export code but their multibillion-dollar business remain exposed to a new American food safety law because of uncertainty that the 300 companies in its supply network locally and overseas will meet the tough new requirements.
REDjet is now booking flights into Jamaica, and is scheduled for its first touchdown in November using a newly acquired third aircraft, the airline said.
Many Jamaicans alive today will live for 20 years or more in retirement. Income has to be found to keep life rolling for all those years, preferably at or close to the quality of pre-retirement life.
The cake appears to be a smash hit, and partners in business Nicole Brown Price (second left) and Shelly-Ann Curran (third left) surely hope the same for their newly opened boutique, No 7, at Montrose Road in St Andrew.
I am writing to get more info/advice on motor entrepreneurship. I am hoping to really get into this myself. Well, actually, I do sometimes rent my vehicle out. I am in the process of getting it registered for such.
Scotiabank is phasing out its proprietary card in favour of a co-branded Visa debit e-payment card tenable internationally. The banking group is distributing the card in its 15 Caribbean markets.
GSB Co-operative Credit Union, the community lender that led off a round of rate cuts by mortgage companies in March, has sliced its loan rates again to single digit.
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
NORANDA JAMAICA Bauxite Partners (NJBP) has expanded its agriculture outreach project with the construction of several greenhouses in the farming community of Burnt Ground, St Ann, and at three schools in the parish.
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
THE NATIONAL Housing Trust (NHT) has established a special journalism award for excellence in reporting on Sustainable Development and Affordable Housing.
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
IN MARCH 2009, Marketech Limited, a subsidiary of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), prepared a market survey report on lemon grass - known locally as fever grass - called Towards the Development of a Lemon Grass Industry.
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
THE ST ANN Chamber of Commerce is to set up a steering committee to address problems that have led to a drastic reduction in the number of cruise ships visiting the resort town since the start of 2011.
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
British Airways (BA) says its inability to fill seats on its flights out of London's Gatwick Airport into the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, was the major factor which led to the airline pulling out of the Jamaican gateway.
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Dr Horace Chang, minister of housing, environment and water, says plans are afoot to construct a new water system to serve sections of South Trelawny, but others will have to continue their dependence on rainfall.
The story 'Investors snub Wallenford' in the Financial Gleaner on Friday, Septem-ber 9, contained a few erroneous statements.The main issue is the report that "Mavis Bank Coffee Factory's (MBCF) assets were...
Jamalco has hit a new milestone of 10 million tons of bauxite hauled from its Mount Oliphant mine to the rail station where it is loaded for shipping to its alumina refinery in Clarendon, parent company Alcoa announced this week.The record was achieved...
AS LEADERS of the European Union (EU) were struggling this week to get parliamentary approvals to expand the bailout fund for heavily indebted member countries, the banking system moved to the centre of the region's debt crisis....
In a nod to rival social networks, Facebook is letting its users "subscribe" to news from other members — even those they are not friends with.Facebook said in a blog post Wednesday that it is rolling out the 'subscribe' button to users...
Trade union leaders gearing for a national strike against the Persad-Bissessar administration said Wednesday they had been refused permission by the authorities to stage a public demonstration and meeting in Tobago.The Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM),...
Depositors are desperate to get back their investments in insurance giant CLICO through the government's shares in Republic Bank, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran said as lawmakers approved the measure by 29 votes to nine Wednesday night....
