Business

As oil and food prices continue to rise and further levies are introduced on travel, could the Caribbean be priced out of the low to middle end of the European tourism market? This alarming prospect may be closer at hand than the region would wish if the situation in the Middle East were to deteriorate further.

Women Business Owners Jamaica Limited (WBO), in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), has launched a project, which will target women in business. The aim of the project is to improve women's business skills and increase their access to financing.

THE BIGGEST PUMPKIN: Carlton Smith, farmer from Content, St James celebrates his success at the Hague Agricultural Show in Trelawny.

IN THE same week that Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton launched the latest Eat Jamaican campaign, vendors of imported agricultural produce were doing a thriving business at the Farmers' Market held at the Portmore HEART Academy in St Catherine on Friday.

Jamaica has authorised the issue of multiple-entry visas to Haiti's business representatives valid for up to six months to facilitate ease of travel, a move aimed at strengthening business relations between both countries...

Pan Caribbean Financial Services has showed a small increase of less than three per cent in after-tax profit, despite foreign-exchange losses and depressed margins as interest rates decline.Like other interest income-dependent operations, PanCaribbean...

Michael Lee-Chin has failed to make the cut on Forbes 2011 list of billionaires published Wednesday.The magazine said that those who were dropped from the list - numbering some 47 people worldwide - either experienced declines in the value of their...

After more than four years playing a largely background role in Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB), Donna Duncan Scott is re-emerging as a face of the company.At the same time, the brokerage ...

Runaway Bay Developments, the company that owns SuperFun Beach Resort and Spa, the former Hedonism III, has been placed in receivership by its first-ranked creditors of four banks to recover a debt of US$20 million. John Lee of Pricewaterhouse-Coopers (PwC)...

Jamaica has seen recent successes in 2010 with the successful implementation of the Jamaican Debt Exchange and the subsequent lowering of interest rates.Additionally, this resulted in the country being able to access an International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Stripped of a loss-making subsidiary that Sagicor Life sold last year, Jamaica's top insurance company cleared an additional six per cent of net profit as payouts to policyholders eased. A J$2-billion decline in annual premium revenue was partly linked...

Movie rentals are coming to Facebook.Warner Bros says it is testing a service that will offer select movies for purchase or rental through the public pages of these movies on the world's largest online social network.