Closing a near three-year stint with the Jamaican operation of FirstCaribbean International Bank, Christopher Denny has taken up a new position in Port-of-Spain as a new recruit of the Citibank team.Denny's job as vice-president, global transaction...
I have a Facebook page that my daughter built. I've never written on anyone's wall ... scribbles sound rude to me. And I have a BlackBerry, but no BlackBerry service (though in my defence, it's a long story)....
The almost illegible jottings on the whiteboard in the boardroom of National Outdoor Advertising's (NOA) Kingston offices suggest a robust committee meeting took place hours earlier.A twisted tie suggests chairman Vincent...
Federal prosecutors have agreed to postpone the scheduled January 24 criminal trial of disgraced financier R.Allen Stanford, who is accused of leading a US$7-billion investment fraud scheme...
The Trinidadian conglomerate Neal & Massy Holdings says that it has written off its investment in Joey Issa's Cool Petroleum Ltd and that Cool is a looking for a new equity partner to pump cash into the business...
Projections for the performance of the local tourism sector this year appears to involve more of the same despite stakeholders predicting an uptick this year on the back...
The Jamaican stock market closed 2.28 per cent higher in 2010 in a sign of renewed interest in stocks, notwithstanding the challenge faced by listed companies to maintain and grow sales and show robust profit.Equities profited from the 'JDX effect'...
Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) is recruiting consultants to package a number of tourist attractions and beach parks for divestment on behalf of Urban Development Corporation (UDC), which is shedding non-core assets...
GraceKennedy Don Wehby takes over as group chief executive officer in July, while Douglas Orane will assume the title of executive chairman until his retirement in late 2012, at age 65...
The World Bank is issuing its first bonds denominated in China's yuan in Hong Kong, joining a growing number of borrowers tapping the new debt market as Beijing gradually promotes its tightly controlled currency abroad.The World Bank said buyers...
The United States Food and Drug Administration says it must review tobacco products that were introduced or changed over the last four years in order for companies to keep selling them.The agency on Wednesday issued guidance to the tobacco industry...
Of the estimated 6,000 farm workers awaiting deployment to North America, under 200 men were employed and departed for Toronto, Canada, yesterday. Pearnel Charles, minister of labour and social security...
Professor Denise Eldemire-Shearer is encouraging budding entrepreneurs to look towards the ageing market for growth and opportunities. Considering that just under 300,000 individuals are 60 years and older, and that...
National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB) has bought a new telephone system from LIME Jamaica that the parties say will strengthen the bank's call-centre operations.LIME said it worked with longstanding partner Avaya on the custom-designed...
The National Housing Trust's plan to appoint O.K.Damani Construction Company Limited as developer of the Trench Town Commercial Complex is on hold pending the company's reregistration with the National Contracts Commission (NCC).
St Lucia Attorney General Laurenzo Rudolph Francis says the aviation dispute over landing rights for CARICOM Airways has been resolved and a statement to that effect is expected to be released by the Eastern Carib-bean Civil Aviation Authority...
A cigar lounge in suburban Detroit is decorated with paintings and photos of famous people with a stogie: John F.Kennedy, Winston Churchill, even the 1950s Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara...
President of the Public Service Association, Watson Duke, on Monday night dismissed the threat of criminal penalty against public workers by the Persad-Bissessar administration on the eve of a nationwide strike over demands for high wages....
7 lessons from 2010 to help you succeed in 2011! Socrates, the founder of moral philosophy, taught that "the unexamined life is not worth living". My belief in the continuing validity of this idea has influenced my practice...
Less than one year after the appointment of a new board to direct the affairs of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board, the man at the helm since 1999, Dr Paul Jennings, has thrown in the towel and will demit office later...
Two other companies have tried - and eventually quit - as bill collectors for the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), but, full of confidence, GraceKennedy's Bill Express said Monday it has the right business model to wring value from the deal as the...
COMPLANT is in possession of Jamaican sugar assets it purchased last year, but has hired the existing Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings Limited team to run its three factories and estates until the close of the...
David Hall and a Canadian partner are ploughing J$170 million into an upmarket corporate entertainment lounge that pampers travellers, scheduled to open at Jamaica's two airports. Hall said Club Kingston Club Montego Bay...
The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce has poured cold water on a suggestion by the prime minister's cost-cutting team to merge the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) with the Urban Development Corporation...
