Business

JPMorgan Chase & Company will return assets worth $800 million to lawyers representing the brokerage arm of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc...

For the week ended April 22, some 33,018,578 shares, valued at $2,553,588, crossed the floors of the six stock exchanges across Caricom, with 27 stocks advancing, 14 declining and 80 remaining unchanged.Cable and Wireless Jamaica was the volume leader...

Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL) is about to expand its supply markets into South America, virgin territory for the Jamaican company, which has been building out its export operations to make up for business lost...

THE RULING Free National Movement (FNM) has accused the main opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) of encouraging unrest in The Bahamas as the fallout continues from the privatisation of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC)....

TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett has revealed that Jamaica welcomed over 20,000 visitors to its shores last Wednesday. Speaking during the closing session of the fourth annual Tourism Outlook Seminar at the Half Moon Conference Centre in Montego Bay...

Hope Channel, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's global television network, through an initiative dubbed 'Project Hope West Indies', has been recording programmes in Jamaica for broadcast.

Michael Stern, the state minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce is claiming that close to 6,000 jobs have been created over the past three months in the small-business sector. Stern made the claim during the launch of the 'I am the Change' entrepreneurship programme at the offices of Jamaica Trade and Invest (JAMPRO) last week.

An-out-of-court settlement has been reached in the suit brought by Joey Issa's Cool Petroleum against the Jamaican Government to recover Customs user fees amounting to more than J$1.4 billion.

Residents of Bog Walk, St Catherine, converge at the local train station for a closer view of the reconditioned five-coach train on its test run from May Pen, Clarendon, to Linstead, St Catherine, on Saturday, April 18.

My father is a builder and is planning on building a house in Jamaica to retire to. He currently has savings held in a United Kingdom bank, but for ease of access, such as purchasing raw materials, he would like to have an account held in Jamaica, but is worried about the financial implications if any of the banks collapse.

A number of resort property owners, particularly in the small and medium category, have quietly been listing their hotels for sale, but many are going on the market at unrealistic prices that serve only to drive up unsold inventory, realtors tell Sunday Business.

Our government has forced us to waste perhaps a couple hundred million dollars on two entirely politically motivated commissions of enquiry that can tell us nothing we didn't already know.