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LONDON (AP):London police arrested Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's former British CEO, in the phone hacking and police bribery scandal Sunday, bringing the United Kingdom investigation into Murdoch's inner circle for the first time.Brooks, 43, was...

Proven Investment Limited, a cash-rich investment fund, has promised shareholders that it will deliver strong performance and integrity as it debuted on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) as the first listing in the new US-Denominated Market.

Dr Karl Blythe, the former minister of water and housing, said he has been passionately negotiating the settlement of a ballooning debt with FINSAC Limited and debt collector Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation (JRF) for more than 10 years, but the agencies have consistently refused to accept his offers.

I have J$5 million just sitting down in the bank in Jamaica. How would you suggest I invest this money? I am a moderate risk-taker and believe strongly in the power of compounding.

As professional adults, we have a problem: we don't know how to be trained to improve our productivity. But it's not a Jamaican thing. Instead, this is a problem that afflicts employees in corporations the world over. It's one reason that so many corporate or national training programmes fail to make a profound difference, even if they are interesting, informative, and entertaining.

For years, many in the United States and Europe have been wishing that Venezuela's mercurial president, Hugo Chávez, would depart and a more pro-Western leader take his place. But now, paradoxically, some of his harshest critics appear to be having second thoughts as the possible regional implications of his illness become apparent.

BRAVING THE glaring rays of the afternoon sun, George Brown made his way gingerly along Wildman Street, clutching his machete, and taking an obvious break from working on what is left of his farm. The 72-year-old was obviously very distraught. Brown, who has lived in the community just on the outskirts of the town of Christiana, lost most of his livelihood when construction began on the Christiana bypass road.

PARISH CAPITAL St Ann's Bay has received a much-needed boost in terms of development, with the opening of the Evansville Business and Entertainment Complex at Gloucester Drive, off Windsor Road.

Contrary to the wishes of some, 'Vx' does not refer to the excellent Jamaican Appleton Estate V/X, a blend of 15 choice aged rums.Borrowing the convention of naming software according to vintage or version, we try to capture the fact that high...

Jamaican poultry farmers said Thursday that they would be drafting a petition aimed at pressuring the Ministry of Agriculture to close ranks with them against a proposal that will ease taxes on chicken imports.

FINSAC Limited has denied charges made by businessman Keith Foote, that his penthouse apartment at Fisherman's Point in the fabulous Turtle Beach area of Ocho Rios was undersold in 2002 to help pay his debts arising from the 1990s meltdown....

Jamaica National Building Society acquired the QuikCash money transfer business from Delroy Howell for J$936 million, newly released financials from the mortgage and financial services group indicate.