Four scholarships are being offered by the American International School in Kingston (AISK) to outstanding grade-11 students enrolling in its International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma programme during the 2011-2012...
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC):The National Workers' Union (NWU) Friday warned the regional airline, LIAT, that it would not support plans to shut down the city office of the airline placing workers on the breadline.
Despite the presence of a number of more established airline services in the region, chairman of REDjet Airlines, Ian Burns, is confident that his company's business strategy can change the culture of the aviation industry in...
Montego Freeport Limited (MFL) has put its five remaining properties on the market for sale, with John Gourzong, company chairman, stating Friday that the move heralds the probable winding up of the company, which will have...
Washington, DC (JIS):Underscoring the progress achieved with the Government's new macro- economic policy, Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States ...
The National Land Agency (NLA) indicates that some $43.5 billion in real estate sector sales were completed islandwide in 2010, with local realtors pointing to increased cash sales and the determination by many to take advantage of distressed property...
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) on Friday issued a notice that the licence of Intertrade Finance Corporation Limited ('Intertrade'), a company dealing in securities and fund management, had been suspended.
WASHINGTON (AP):The unemployment rate is sinking at the fastest pace in half a century because a surprisingly large number of people say they're finding work.
BRUSSELS (AP):France and Germany pushed other Eurozone countries to sign up for tough measures to limit debt loads, make their economies more productive, and stamp out the government debt crisis that has crippled their currency union over the past...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): The European Union (EU) said Friday it had made available a record high €130.2 million (US$162.7 million) in grant funding to nine Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries last year.
The Development Bank of Jamaica Limited (DBJ) has extended the deadline for the submission of bids for the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) interest in the Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited (MBCF) by two months - from Friday, February 11, to Friday, March...
Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism, has come out swinging against comments made by Opposition Spokesman on Tourism Dr Wykeham McNeill that the opening of the Falmouth cruise-ship pier could see significant fall-off at the...
Cable and Wireless (C&W), the telecoms company that trades in the Caribbean as LIME, says it has completed the buildout of the US$35 million undersea cable connecting Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic.
Their confidence hit by recession and uncertain about the future, Jamaican firms and individuals were more frugal about borrowing in 2010, reversing the growth trend for debt of recent years despite...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC):St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves Wed-nesday criticised the decision by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to expand its operations into the Eastern Caribbean, saying it was doing so in...
NEW YORK (US):Private employers added more jobs than expected in January, underscoring views the employment picture is slowly improving.The private sector added 187,000 jobs in January...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):A senior official of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) said Tuesday that regional economies will recover slowly from the global economic crisis even as she insists that it is not all doom and gloom.
NEW YORK (AP):Stocks dipped yesterday as concerns over violent protests in Egypt weighed against better-than-expected economic news in the United States.Clashes continued in Egypt between pro- and anti-government demonstrators, leaving some analysts...
Ratings agency Stan-dard & Poor's (S&P) cut its credit grade for Ireland on Wednesday and warned it could fall further because of doubts about the true scale of defaulting loans yet to surface in the country's largely state-owned banks.
The managers of AMG, the packaging and paper company, remain coy about how much they hope to raise from the proposed initial public offering (IPO) they flagged up this week, but the firm's...
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) on Wednesday officially launched its real time clearing and settlement system, Jamclear, which now allows commercial banks and securities dealers to transact and make settlement immediately.
Caribbean countries, saddled with high debt levels and badly affected by the global economic crisis, need to reduce debt and develop new sources of growth to enhance their prospects, according to participants...
Opposition Spokesman on tourism, Dr Wykeham McNeill, is warning that the ports at Ocho Rios in St Ann and Montego Bay in St James could see a significant fall-off in the number of ships making call at those ports when...
