Business

The local utilities watchdog is preparing to use the big stick of statutory regulations to demand a wide range of disclosure demands on the burgeoning telecommunications that could have the effect of drastically shaking up...

RBC International Banking said this week that it has tapped Suresh Sookoo to head its Caribbean operation.The move would be in line with market expectations, as it formalises an announcement first made two years ago.RBC International is a division...

The Jamaican economy has been thrown into a tail-spin by several days of bad weather that affected the island in late September, with the country's central bank this week unveiling a litany of negative economic prognostications...

THE EDITOR, Sir:IT IS most unfortunate that the lead story in the Business section of your November 10 edition - both the headline and the lead sentence - asserts as fact that LIME is selling part of its operations to a global telecoms company.While...

Backed by entrepreneur Chris Blackwell, Jamaica will this weekend host its first TED conference, a gathering of innovators, thinkers and academics to explore game-changing ideas and spark debate around science and technology....

Barita Investments Limited has forged an agreement with international equity trading firm Stock USA, a move which the company said will now provide its local clients with an American equity trading platform while affording the company an opportunity...

The European Union (EU) is reviewing whether budgetary support to the Caribbean and other developing countries, according to an official statement issued in Guyana."Budget support is, however, not a blank cheque.

Remittance flows, which the World Bank described as "the lifeline" of many Latin American economies, is likely to close the year two per cent higher than last year's figures, new estimates show.

Grenada's Foreign Minister Peter David says he has been given the assurance by his counterpart in Trinidad and Tobago that the new Persad-Bissessar administration will honour a boundary delimitation treaty signed between the two countries earlier this...

For people of a certain age, the name 'Pan Am' still strikes a chord.From its birth in 1929 to its demise in 1991, Pan American World Airways was the gold standard in air travel, and Brownsville played a key role,...

George Roper, former deputy executive director of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), has joined the Scotia Group Jamaica team in a senior capacity as vice-president of compliance operation. Roper's appointment was announced by the bank on Monday...

Karl Samuda, minister of industry, investment and commerce, is reporting improvement in cutting bureaucratic delays in his own ministry, but admits he has fallen short of target."I don't think we have been able to reduce in our ministry that whole...