Business

Lowe's, the United States' second-largest home improvement retailer, said Monday that it will buy back up to US$5 billion of its common stock.While the repurchase program has no expiration date...

The Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) recently sponsored a three-day health and wellness fair at its Fourth Avenue offices...

AGRICULTURE MINISTER Robert Montague says he will be looking at expanding the local pig industry as part of his plans to develop the agricultural sector. "The vision is to see to it that we do not have to import into Jamaica any pork products...

In the past six months, a handful of interactions with the tax department's customer service line have left me stunned.

Investors flocked to gold Friday, sending it to the latest of a series of records, as fears about recession in the world's major economies infected financial markets.

A growing belief that the United States is headed towards recession gave the stock market its fourth straight week of losses.

American technology company Vistaprint plans to start construction next year on its US$14.8 million (J$1.27 billion) call centre in Montego Bay.

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is now reviewing offers for a building adjoining its head office, which has been empty for more than five years.

Jamaicans for decades have bought cigarettes by the stick and by the carton at corners shops, from streetside sellers, and a multiplicity of businesses that make money off...

CANCER IS a scourge for which there seems to be no wholesale antidote. It attacks and kills just about anyone. No respecter of race, politics, religion and social status it is. It has decimated familial ties and relationships, and even attempted to destroy the love affair between Ray and Yvonne Kirlew of Discovery Bay, St Ann.

ANNETTE THOMPSON has hurricane-proofed her farm. This Portland woman says storm winds normally wreak havoc on her banana plantation, flattening the fragile plants and everything in its path.

Jessica Roye has scored eight distinctions in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, a feat that she says was achieved with hard work and perseverance.