Business

Despite a strong performance on the Junior markets, Caribbean stocks ended the week of August 29 to September 2 lower, on the back of losses in the insurance and investments, conglomerate and tourism and real estate sectors.For the week, 27,669,102...

Caribbean Broilers has shelved its plans to dispose of unused chicken parts by incorporating it in ingredients for the manufacture of poultry feed, in a swift reaction to public response decrying ...

JCSD Trustee Services is awaiting notification on whether the sale of a Trinidad-based oil and gas subsidiary within the CL Financial Group last month would result in the payment of local bondholders.Touchstone Exploration of Canada announced on July 11...

Jamaica estimates that a majority four-fifths of food processors are likely to fail new export tests to be imposed by the United States in less than four months, and has mounted a rescue plan backed by cheap money ...

World stock markets took a beating on Monday after a report showed United States companies stopped hiring in August, reviving fears that the world's largest economy is heading back into recession.The lack of hiring in the US last month surprised...

Swiss banking officials lashed out Monday at the possibility of yet another tax treaty with the United States aimed at handing over the details of more Americans suspected of using Swiss banks to cheat on their taxes.The chairman of the Swiss Bankers...

Manager of the St Ann and St Mary branch of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Marilyn Williams, is appealing for support to help the branch reach its five million dollar fund-raising target this year."At the moment...

Yisraeline Geddes, the chief spokesperson for Claro dealers, has endorsed Prime Minister Bruce Golding's edict to reject the planned integration of Claro Jamaica and Digicel Jamaica's networks, saying the separation could revive business for the dealers.

Sing Chin, managing director of the Progressive Grocers of Jamaica consortium, said stores in the chain of 28 that earned the lowest margins were hit by two factors: high electricity bills and meat spoilage.

Director of tax relief in the Ministry of Finance, Maurice Williams (second left), holds court with (from left) film-maker Rick Elgood, Natalie Thompson of Cinecom Productions Limited, and Kim-Marie Spence, film commissioner and manager of JAMPRO's creative industries unit, at a meeting with holders of Motion Picture Recognition Status...

I have an elderly relative who is selling a home in the UK and moving back to Jamaica and plans to deposit the proceeds of the sale of a property into a Jamaica bank account, approximately J$20 million. How much of this total sum would be insured against losses in the event of, for example, the bank collapsing?

The Jamaica Broilers Group, in a swipe at its competitor, Caribbean Broilers, has rejected the idea of converting chicken waste parts into ingredients for the manufacturing of poultry feed to reduce the dependency on expensive grains sourced on the international market.