EK in transition - Errol Miller, LIME's regional vice president for corporate communications, take on a new role as vice president of government and corporate affairs...
My last column elicited comment from someone calling himself/herself 'Vomit Government'."Olint and Cash Plus are not just Ponzi schemes and whoever holds that line (lettered or not) is simple," he/she asserted.
The Real Estate Board (REB) is reporting that it prevented hundreds of purchasers from being scammed of more than half a billion dollars in its last fiscal year ending March 2010.The agency, which ramped up prosecutions in the period...
Bolivia enacted a law on December 10 lowering the country's retirement age to 58, bucking a global trend in which countries push people to work longer to counteract the burden on national treasuries of rising life expectancy.Critics say the law...
A regional non-governmental organisation, Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C), has come out in support of the push for higher pricing by utility companies, including...
A new council of business titans and professionals has been corralled by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett to advise him on how best to execute hospitality policy to drive business and the economy.
Thousands of Cuban-Americans are heading to Havana this holiday season carrying everything from electronics and medicine to clothing and toiletries to help relatives back home supplement monthly salaries averaging about US$20....
It will be at least six months to a year before the facilities for inbound shopping are ready, the operators of Jamaica's two major airports said this week, days after Tourism...
Blaming the changes in tax policy implemented this month, Desnoes & Geddes, trading as Red Stripe, said on Wednesday it will not, as is customary, distribute a dividend to shareholders this month.The board,...
The Government is exploring the range of available options that would lead to its 40,000-plus full-time state-paid workers footing at least part of the hefty J$9-billion bill the Treasury now pays for employee pensions....
Although Christmas and a cold winter are upon us, there is good reason to reflect for a moment about global warming and the recent climate conference in Cancún. It may seem unreal, as our teeth are chattering in Europe, but 2010 was actually one of the hottest years on record....
It was a festive affair for members of the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP), which staged its Christmas social at the University of the West Indies' Mona Visitors' Lodge on December 16. The event, which was marked by poetry, music, Christmas...
WESTERN BUREAU:Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda has reiterated his commitment to boost the capacity of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector by promising to establish...
German autoworkers are staying at the factory this Christmas break assembling someone else's gifts - and they don't have a problem with it. Germany's leading carmakers made the rare move of cutting holidays short as 2010 draws to a close to meet a surge...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Puerto Rico officials proposed a mixed land-use plan last Thursday for a lush coastal region long coveted by developers, disappointing conservationists who demanded more protection for the former nature preserve that is a major nesting ground...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Buckeye Partners LP said Monday it agreed to buy an 80 per cent stake in the Caribbean's largest oil and petroleum products storage terminal, Bahamas Oil Refining Company International, for US$1.36 billion from First Reserve Corp....
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
THE BAHAMAS government has outlined the terms of the transaction with Cable & Wireless Communications Plc (CWC) for the sale of Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited, saying it is "time to bring an end to the deceit that is now becoming...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jamaica Limited has led the market this month as the most actively traded stock on which transactions have involved more than 46 million units in three weeks. The largest of those trades...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
New York's attorney general filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday accusing the accounting firm Ernst & Young of helping the defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers deceive investors about its financial health.
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Tensions between the United States and Venezuela flared over Washington's nominee for ambassador Saturday as President Hugo Chavez warned that the diplomat would be detained and put on the next flight...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
American businessman, philanthropist, and self-help author W. Clement Stone was on to something when he noted that "there is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Emera Inc has launched a full takeover of Light & Power Holdings Limited with an offer on the stock market to acquire all outstanding shares, seven months after it first bought into the Barbados utility.
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The recent heavy retail discounting which pulled scores of shoppers down-town, has been the icing on the cake for some large business owners in the commercial hub, who are pointing to steady signs of improved commerce ...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Supreme Ventures' Financial Services subsidiary has added another retail outlet to its network, as it seeks to grow its underperforming remittances and foreign exchange trading business. The new shop in May Pen, which...
Published:Wednesday | December 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Lascelles deMercado and Company Limited will give a New Year gift of $1 billion to ordinary shareholders, but only a million-plus of the largesse is expected to stay in Jamaica.On Monday, Lascelles said in a stock market filing that it would pay out...
