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Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Digicel chairman and founder, Denis O'Brien, has been awarded Haiti's highest honour by new president Michel Martelly. The National Order of Honour and Merit recognises O'Brien's investment in Haiti over the last five years and his contribution ...

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Gordon Tewani has lost a few tenants to a competing commercial complex in Montego Bay owned by Mark Kerr-Jarrett, but the Kingston-based businessman says he expects to replace the migrant operations in no time....

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) says it will likely lower Jamaica's debt rating unless the original International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal is followed by what it called a sustainable economic plan...

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Consider the following unusual experience I had recently and the lesson you see in it for your own career.A friend recently asked me to critique a speech she had delivered ...

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Dominica says it will use a multimillion-dollar loan from China to develop a housing programme by the end of the year.The 'Housing for Roseau' project will be among a number of projects to be financed under the EC$40 million (US$14.8 million) loan...

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Spain's prime minister proposed new measures Tuesday to rein in spending and help indebted Spaniards hit by staggering unemployment and a sluggish economy.Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told Parliament in the annual state of the nation debate that next...

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The four member countries of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC) have produced 486,085 tonnes of sugar over the crop year to May, a month ahead of the close of the season."We have delivered 311,826 tonnes to the EU so far against access ...

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Consulting attorney Trevor Patterson revealed a July timeline for the absorption and eventual delisting of First Jamaica Investment into its parent company Pan Jamaican Investment Trust in the wake of a successful vote approving the plan....

Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM

JAMAICA IS projected in 2012 to grow more than two percentage points, its fastest rate in six years, but this will still equate to one of the worst-performing economies in the world, according to forecasts...

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Greece wants to conclude negotiations for a second bailout by the end of the summer "at the latest", the country's new finance minister said Monday, at the start of a parliamentary debate on unpopular but crucial austerity measures....

Published:Tuesday | June 28, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Iran's oil minister is acknowledging strains within OPEC after its last meeting broke up in disarray, but says the organisation can solve them internally.Mohammad Aliabadi's comments come after OPEC was unable to reach a unified decision earlier this...

Published:Monday | June 27, 2011 | 12:00 AM

DISASTERS HAVE been afflicting nations worldwide and, without a doubt, have been creating a serious, negative impact on the national and world economies. As a result, growth and development have been involuntarily sidelined in order for government to maintain a grip...

Published:Monday | June 27, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: The illicit Jamaican lottery scam, which continues to be an albatross for local and international law-enforcement officers, was the subject of news for the small suburban city of Tallmadge in the United States yesterday."The lottery phone...

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

QUESTION: I loved your article in Gleaner Careers of Wednesday, May 11 on 'Career change strategies'. I am a nurse and have wanted to change careers for the last couple of years. To make a long story short, I went into teaching.

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The first lot of land is being acquired through forced takeover, paving the way for the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) to test a new programme that will raze blighted housing infrastrucure in mid-city Kingston and replace it with new homes for persons of low income.

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Sagicor Life Jamaica, looking for an advantage in a re-energised mortgage market, has cut interest rates by one of the largest margins yet, ranging between two and six percentage points or an average of 21 percentage.

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A quarter-century after the creation of ".com," the agency that assigns Internet addresses is loosening its rules and allowing suffixes named after brands, hobbies, political causes and just about anything else.

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Lawrence Duprey, the former chairman of the cash-strapped Colonial Life Insurance Company Trinidad Limited (CLICO), is seeking to prevent Monday's start of the commission of enquiry into the collapse of the insurance giant.

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Brian George, president and chief executive officer of gaming and lottery company Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL), is predicting record profit for the lottery company this year based on a plan to strangle costs while expanding services.

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Ever so slowly, The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) are on their way back to having an elected government and a full constitution. Ignored by much of the media, a constitutional conference took place in London on June 15-16 that will result in the adaptation of the islands' 2006 constitution that Britain partially suspended in March 2009 when it imposed direct rule.

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

QUESTION: Is there any way that I can use charitable gifts to reduce my personal taxes and taxes on my estate to enhance my estate-planning programme?

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

World Bank representative, Mozammal Hoque, giving a PowerPoint presentation entitled 'Parliamentary Control of Public Expenditures' at a broadbased workshop hosted by the World Bank on the role and responsibilities of parliamentarians held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, on Tuesday, June 21, 2011.

Published:Saturday | June 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THE UNIVERSITY College of the Caribbean (UCC) officially launched its academic centre at the José Marti Technical High School in Twickenham Park, St Catherine, recently. This brings the number of centres islandwide to nine, since the merger of the Institute of Management Sciences and the Institute of Management and Production to form the University College of the Caribbean in 2004.

Published:Saturday | June 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WHEN THE train made its final creaking journey through the community of Breadnut Walk in St Elizabeth in 1992, the sight of the disappearing train represented the slipping economic reality of the people.

Published:Saturday | June 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Former government Minister, Phillip Paulwell, who has been credited for his role in the liberalisation of the telecommunications market, has cited the lack of office space as a hindrance to the expansion of local information communication technology (ICT).

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