Business

The Brazilian government says the country's next grain harvest is expected to be nearly nine per cent higher than the previous one.

Three more years for Hylton - Noel Hylton has been reappointed chairman of the Port Authority of Jamaica....

The Bahamas government says it will end all commercial shark fishing in its waters. "The Bahamas government is determined to enhance the protection extended to sharks," said Agriculture and Marine Resources ...

Digicel Group and America Movil have passed the deadline for closing the deal to swap assets in Jamaica and Central America...

Patrick Hylton, group managing director of National Commercial Bank Jamaica, denied any connection between the sale of the bank to Jamaican-Canadian investor Michael Lee-Chin's AIC Limited, and his position as NCB's current boss, at Wednesday's sitting...

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has reached an agreement with the Cayman government for the construction of two cruise ship piers and repairs to a jetty and landing facility to accommodate mega-cruise liners calling at Grand Cayman....

A government plan to ease taxes on imports continues to get pushback from businesses, which see the move as regressive and likely to hurt domestic manufacturing. This week the latest pushback is from Peter McConnell, who runs one of Jamaica's largest juice companies...

Dr Karl Blythe, a former minister of water and housing, is to appear at the FINSAC enquiry next week, commission chairman Worrick Bogle confirmed Tuesday. The exact date is to be finalised....

THE FIRST wave of shock and news-making about the Japanese nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, of March, 2011, has waned somewhat, but the effects will live on in the human psyche for a very long time....

Dr Derrick Deslandes, marketing consultant with the agriculture ministry, says the push to develop a local juice-concentrate market to replace imports has been stymied by the cost of machinery needed to process fresh juice...

The Belize government has moved to reacquire Belize Telemdia Limited (BTL), more than a week after the Court of Appeal had termed the first nationalisation process unconstitutional.On Monday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow introduced a bill to amend the...

The Western Union Company said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Travelex Global Business Payments for about US$973.8 million in cash, in a deal that will allow it to expand rapidly in the business of international payment processing.The Travelex...