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The Trinidad and Tobago government will table legislation today that will prevent policyholders with the embattled Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) from taking or continuing any legal action against the central bank for recovery of money....

Bank of America says it will cut about 30,000 jobs over the next few years in a bid to save US$5 billion per year.The troubled bank says it expects many of the cuts will come through attrition and eliminating unfilled positions....

Dolby Laboratories Inc says Research in Motion has agreed to license its audio technologies that were the subject of two recent lawsuits against the BlackBerry maker.As a result, Dolby Laboratories said Monday it has dropped its patent infringement...

Rejection starts from the womb. It is one of the greatest hindrances to the true potential to individuals and, ultimately, to nations. Simply put, rejection means to refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe; to throw out as useless or worthless...

The start of a new school year always means major expenses for parents.

Ivan Berry, a director at the music publishing company C2W Mu-sic Limited, is taking his company public amid scepticism that the industry in which he plays is a good business proposition.

Some of us approach entrepreneurship from the wrong perspective. Faced with redundancy, a windfall, approaching retirement, loneliness, separation, or any manner of crisis, some persons grab for what appears to be the nearest idea without any conception of the probability of success and failure.

Chief Executive Officer of the Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU) Patricia Sinclair-McCalla is advocating developing more Government properties across the island.

Former Jamaican prime minister P.J. Patterson has been invited to join Haiti's Presidential Advisory Council on Growth and Investment that was launched on Thursday.

The China-Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum has become an important venue in which to conduct exchanges, and an effective mechanism to deepen practical cooperation since it was first held in 2005.

The Jamaican Government says - in disclosures made by Finance Minister Audley Shaw to lawmakers Thursday - that the sale of its holdings in the Jamalco refinery is imminent, and that negotiations are ongoing with two parties.

MONTEGO Bay, St James:The United States (US) Embassy in Jamaica has provided a grant to the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) that will benefit over 2,500 young people attending the 56 Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) centres...