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Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), applauded the conclusion to the debt-limit debate after it was signed into law Tuesday by US President Barack Obama.Lagarde then urged the US to focus on developing...

The Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, faced with industrial action by its workers in Grenada, cancelled a number of flights into that Caribbean island on Monday, while assuring customers that it was seeking a resolution to the matter."Intensive...

Brazil is announcing measures to strengthen the country's industrial sector, which is struggling with an overvalued currency and cheap imports from countries such as China.

National Water Commission has hired NCB Capital Markets Limited (NCBCM) as lead broker/arranger to raise US$37 million of debt guaranteed by the Government of Jamaica as funding for the water monopoly's new subsidiary, Central Wastewater Treatment...

The United States Senate emphatically passed emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature just hours before the deadline.The vote was 74-26.Obama planned to...

Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has struck a more than J$300-million deal with auditing and consultancy firm Pricewaterhouse-Coopers Jamaica to handle the divestment of shipment hub Kingston Container Terminal (KCT), one of the region's busiest...

'A stickler for quality assurance', that is how newly appointed general manager (GM) of Port Computer Services Limited (PCS), Elaine Hayden, describes herself. Hayden, who has a solid background in information technology management, has worked ...

WORK HAS started on the premises in Tulip Lane, Denham Town, where eight prefabricated houses are to be built to replace those destroyed in a fire weeks ago.When The Gleaner team visited the area last week..

RESIDENTS OF Water Lane and surrounding areas near East Street in downtown Kingston have been living with an unsightly and unhygienic rubbish heap for months, and they want it addressed now....

A 23-year-old teacher on Saturday earned the distinction of being the first parish representative from Westmoreland to win the National Farm Queen title, topping the field of 13 contestants on the opening night...

Damian Obiglio, chief executive officer of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), was facing the heat of patrons at the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show in May Pen, Clarendon, on Saturday."Yes, it puts a lot of pressure on me, but I think...