Business

Oil prices climbed back above US$100 per barrel at midday Thursday after a crackdown on protesters in Bahrain increased concerns that unrest there threatens to spread to OPEC heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Iran.

JSM Wireless UK, a leading global supplier of financial information software, yesterday announced an agreement with Digicel, the leading mobile network operator in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific, to launch its financial application on...

I frequently receive emails from readers who express deep dissatisfaction with their jobs, but who see no way out but to 'grin and bear it'. These correspondences invariably come with a 'do not publish' directive. This is understandable since no one wants to risk...

Energy prices are tumbling to the lowest levels this month as world markets react to a growing crisis in Japan.Dangerous levels of radiation have been reported leaking from a crippled nuclear plant in the northeastern part of Japan, and analysts say the...

President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), Josef Forstmayr, Monday said his organisation had been very supportive of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed between Europe and the Caribbean Forum countries because...

A decline in business has led to the closure of a branch of COK Sodality Co-operative Credit Union in St Andrew.

The Government will be extending the Urban Renewal Tax Relief Act to cover the old industrial belt between Three Miles and Six Miles in Kingston to spur business activities in that area....

Jamaica says it fears that the decision by the European Union (EU) to bring aviation into its Emissions Trading System will start a process that will see increasing levels of environmental taxes levied on aviation before any global approach ...

Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami may cost the global insurance industry as much as US$60 billion, which would make the disaster the most expensive ever behind Hurricane Katrina, according to early...

Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL), in expressing its gratitude to the Jamaica Customs Department for its cooperation over the Christmas season, honoured members of the department who played a vital role in improving the clearance of cargo for customers...

As the nation experiences the continued disintegration of core values and principles that makes a nation strong, it is becoming clearer that what is needed is good mentors for those coming up to emulate and bring the nation back to where it was...

In October 2010, another car hit mine at a four-way stop at about 5:30 p.m. The other driver appeared to have been distracted and went through the stop sign while my car was already in the intersection. I sounded my car horn to no avail. Damage to my car was to the front fender, behind the front tire, and the driver's door. The other vehicle sustained damage to its front.