Business

Citing its strong profits and potential for continued growth, brokers have largely marked as 'a buy' the Dolphin Cove Group, whose initial public offer (IPO) opens today. One broker, Scotia DBG Investments even argues that at J$3, the company's offer price...

Robert Pitfield has shed his board positions in Trinidad, but he remains chairman of the Scotia Group Jamaica, the local banking group confirmed Tuesday.Pitfield has a new posting inside the parent group in Canada, since...

It may not last, but a spirit of compromise seems to have settled over the annual UN climate conference as negotiators enter its final days looking for agreements on secondary tools for coping with global...

Oil prices on Tuesday jumped above US$90 a barrel for the first time in more than two years, a key milestone for Wall Street analysts who say tightening supplies will eventually send prices above the US$100 mark next year.The recent surge in oil pushed...

Minister of Transport and Works Mike Henry has called on citizens to be vigilant in ensuring that work carried out under the $36-billion Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), is of the highest standard."Citizens, you are the eyes and ears...

Pfizer Inc abruptly replaced its CEO and chairman Sunday, saying Jeffrey B. Kindler was retiring after 4 1/2 years leading the world's biggest drugmaker to "recharge".Analysts saw the unexpected departure as an ouster, however, coming amid repeated failures from Pfizer's labs...

As the Jamaica Business Council on HIV/AIDS (JABCHA) fine-tunes plans to set up a national foundation for HIV/AIDS, its executive director, Earl Moore, has warned that the country's business sector is in for big trouble if companies continue to undermine...

Research In Motion Limited maker, of BlackBerry smartphones, said on its blog Thursday that it will buy Swedish software developer The Astonishing Tribe, which specialises in making phone software more attractive and easy to use.

Encouraging the Caribbean private sector to become more dynamic is far from easy.This is not to comment on the largest Caribbean companies, the 40 or more enterprises which are multinational, well financed and managed, and are invested in or exporting...

Bermuda and China have signed a tax-information agreement and Premier Paula Cox said that the recent controversy over the decision of her predecessor to offer sanctuary to four Chinese Muslim Uighurs last year was not mentioned during the talks.

The National Housing Trust (NHT) will be providing 85 per cent financing for two housing projects in St Mary and St Andrew, which are being spearheaded by the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ).