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kareen_cox@heart-nta.orgPreparing for your retirementHave you started thinking about retirement yet? If you are the typical young person fresh out of high school or university, retirement may seem a long way off, and...

Three experts on tourism trends in the United Kingdom and Europe have painted an optimistic picture of the British market for the Caribbean tourism sector in 2011.A panel of media and industry practitioners concluded in London that the worst is over for...

The local beer, wines and spirits company Red Stripe has announced a massive 'Christmas On The Rock Campaign', designed to offer rewards to its customers over the holiday season.According to the company, the campaign...

A logo is a unique sign or image that you can use to easily identify your product or service.Your logo is what represents your company and is one of the key indicators that separate your product from your competitor's.

Once again, global food prices are spiralling upwards.On November 2, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced that its global food-price index had climbed for the fifth month in a row and had reached its highest level since...

In late October, Caribbean ministers of agriculture, farmers, and academics gathered in Grenada in a rearguard bid to refocus a region used to existing mostly for tourism on agriculture, given a mounting food-import bill and fears of yet another global food crisis.

In the 1960s, the late Desmond Blades led a management buyout of a very small operation that has today grown into one of the largest conglomerates in the Caribbean and Central America with more than 5,000 employees.This is the Musson Jamaica Group, and...

The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) is about to wipe some 650 companies from its register of businesses, but says their owners have three months from the first warning notice to prove they are still in operation...

Qantas airline gro-unded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine Thursday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.

Bill Clinton last week reinvigorated the public discourse on the use of renewable energy in Jamaica. Solar energy, of which Jamaica is in abundant supply, is particularly important if we are to diversify away from imported sources of energy...

The Bank of England held interest rates steady at a record low of 0.5 per cent for the 20th consecutive month on Thursday as the British economy shows signs of unexpected strength.The British central bank also kept its £200-billion (US$323-billion)...

Stocks were rising sharply Thursday, one day after the Federal Reserve announced a US$600-billion plan to stimulate the economy.