Business

I have been the victim of four accidents involving taxi men. I have had to pay despite the fact that those drivers were at fault. The latest incident involved a driver who swerved into the side of my vehicle. He was travelling in the opposite direction. He did not stop, but I caught up with him after giving chase. He had no car documents.

Andrine Higgins, one of the few women in hard hats you might have spotted regularly on the wharf, has diversified operations to marry her small port business with an e-commerce venture.

How do I buy stocks if I don't want to go through a stockbroker? Can I buy stocks online? What is the minimum that can be invested? I am in high school.

JAMAICA NATIONAL Building Society's (JNBS) self-serve facility, JN Express, will be the focus of the JN House pavilion at the 59th Denbigh Agricultural Show, which gets under way today.

HER DETERMINATION to become independent at all costs is the motivating factor behind the success of Nicole Burke, who now operates a grocery store in the rural community of Stony Hill, Portland.

THE JAMAICA Railway Corporation (JRC) is to provide special excursions to the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show in May Pen, Clarendon, tomorrow and Monday.

The Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) said Tuesday that the proposed reduction in the Common External Tariff (CET) threatens the existence of some locally made products, and could be harmful to "agriculture as well as the socio-economic health of the country".

President Hugo Chávez announced that Venezuela's state oil company will boost its crude output by 30,000 barrels a day beginning Thursday, in honour of his 57th birthday.It's a symbolic increase for a country that claims to already produce about three...

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, has been appointed lead adviser to the Jamaican Government on the privatisation of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) and domestic aerodromes....

Aluminium industry executives are projecting that the amount of aluminium used in cars will double by 2020 as automakers turn to the lighter metal to replace steel in order to meet increased fuel-economy standards.In the United States, higher oil prices...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez celebrated his 57th birthday Thursday vowing to survive cancer and proposing to host a summit of Latin American leaders in December.Chávez said he expects his hair will begin to fall out soon due to chemotherapy but that...

The Antigua & Barbuda government says it will intervene in the ongoing dispute between the island's main telecommunications providers that has left mobile telephone users without some services."The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is fully...