Business

In an article in The Gleaner in 2008, it was estimated that fraud was a multibillion-dollar problem in Jamaica.According to the latest Global Economic Crime Survey prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, not only does...

Jamaican architects and their counterparts in other Cariforum countries are still waiting for the signing of a mutual recognition agreement which would allow them to ply their trade in European Union (EU) countries....

Robert Levy, who for 50 years has built a company dominant in the poultry business and recognised in households through the Best Dressed brand, has been awarded a spot among Jamaica's titans of business in the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica...

The export complex at the Norman Manley Inter-national Airport run by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has added capacity so that producers wanting to grow their exports will have access to a facility capable of handling higher volumes.

Today, I planned to write on the issue of growth in the Jamaican economy. My thoughts actually moved to Eric Williams, who, during his time at the Anglo-American Caribbean commission, suffered some experiences that even for that time...

A new study released by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) has found that high trade costs are curtailing business opportunities between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).The two "must lower trade costs and increase investment...

Google Inc is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com Inc and its Kindle electronic reader.The long-awaited Internet book store, which opened Monday in the United States, draws upon a portion of the 15 million...

The Golding administration is considering a scheme to pay, with medium- to long-term bonds, billions of dollars in unreimbursed withholding tax it owes to pension funds.But the finance ministry, now hiding behind the supposed constraints of the Revenue Administration Act,...

Robert Levy, chairman of the Jamaica Broilers Group, has attributed his business' success to his belief in God. At The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday night, when he was inducted into the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica...

CANCUN, Mexico (AP): Should airline passengers pay a small tax to help out? How about global money dealers? Or perhaps governments should take what they spend subsidising gasolene prices and put it towards the climate cause....

Digicel Limited has raised its targeted US$300 million in a corporate bond offering that closed Tuesday. "The funds raised will in part support the planned expansion of our business in Haiti which delivered strong year-on-year revenue growth for the six...

United Parcel Service (UPS) is now requiring photo identification from customers shipping packages at retail locations around the world, a month after explosives made it onto one of the company's planes.The Atlanta-based package courier said Tuesday ...