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Swedish developer Zublin is making another try at approval for a multimillion-dollar tourism development project rejected by the Grenada government last year.The developer said the project, which includes a new cruise ship jetty, a four-star city hotel...

The St Lucia National Trust on Monday queried the legality of a decision by the Stephenson King government to lease, with the possibility of selling, a potion of land near...

The Stanford Victims Coalition said that the United States Government has shown nothing less than gross negligence in its handling of accused schemer...

German automakers Volkswagen AG and BMW AG both said Monday that their global sales rose by more than 13 per cent last year led by strong demand from China and elsewhere in Asia.Volkswagen's group deliveries totalled 7.14 million in 2010 - a new record...

On behalf of the managing committee of the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ), its members and staff, I take this opportunity to wish all Jamaicans, in particular the stakeholders in the local shipping industry...

With one month into the 2010-11 sugar crop, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Christopher Tufton, is optimistic that the production target of 150, 000 tonnes will be reached.The figure...

A pending overhaul of the national school-feeding programme is likely to provide incremental revenue gains for the local dairy sector, says Dr David Lowe, who is also predicting that 2011 will see the hiking of value-added production within the sector...

Reflective of the dampened shopping season, transactions through the MultiLink system rose in December, but by a marginal four per cent, slower than the pace of previous years.

The most expensive motorcycles in Jamaica sell for close to $2 million.The cheap ones, scooters, range as low as $130,000, but while this counts as a more affordable ride, the sales performance of the two-wheelers has fallen in the recession. But there are signs of an uptick.

One year ago, Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at the tech industry's premier gadget expo to showcase a Windows tablet computer to an audience that had yet to meet the iPad. This year, with tablets marking the hottest items at the show and Windows lagging far behind Apple Inc's popular iPad, the stakes were higher.

A decommissioned US Navy ship was scuttled last Wednesday in the clear Caribbean waters of the Cayman Islands, where officials say the sunken vessel will attract fish and tourists.

People are buying a lot of televisions but mostly passing on 3D, according to a report released this week. According to the research group DisplaySearch, TV manufacturers sold 247 million TVs worldwide in 2010 - a 17 per cent increase over the previous year - when the world was embroiled in the worst of the global downturn.