Thousands of public servants took to the streets in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday in support of their demands for increased salaries as the Public Service Association called for a national strike next week. The PSA is demanding that public workers would...
A prolonged drought which depressed demand for water-proofing services by 25-30 per cent last year, back to back, double-digit wage increases, rising energy and raw material costs have taken their toll on Seal Sprayed...
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has described as a 'dastardly lie' reports that a senior official of the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) had received EC$100,000 (US$37,000) from an accused money launderer.
The Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) unanimously re-elected Carlos Urriola Tam of Panama and Grantley Stephenson, chief executive officer of Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL), for a second consecutive term, as president and vice-president...
WESTERN BUREAU: The management of the Runaway Bay HEART Hotel is to undertake a multimillion dollar refurbishing exercise on the property and to reposition it in the marketplace. The 24-year-old property is to be named the Cardiff Hotel...
There is a cry against social injustice in the business sector, the banks and other lenders to the governments of many nations against heavy taxation, significantly increased bank charges, high interest rates increased...
Students islandwide sitting their Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)/Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Principles of Accounts (POA) and Principles of Business (POB) subjects in June 2011 will have their examination fees paid in full by...
An unspecified amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exploded into the atmosphere after the top of a pressure-relief valve flew off during the offloading process at the Petrojam oil refinery in Kingston about 7 a.m.
WESTERN BUREAU: THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS fight should heat up by the end of the month when Flow introduces wideband Internet connection of up to 100Mbs to its residential customers.
Karl Samuda, the investment and commerce minister, has branded public-sector bureaucracy an economic "pickpocket", the fight against which is the most difficult he has ever engaged in, but which the Golding administration is determined to win.
Hoping to capitalise on the next Olympic Games, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) and Jampro launched the 'Meet Jamaica at London 2012' campaign to help companies identify and exploit business opportunities
One of the stranger aspects of the Caribbean is the disjunction between the many reports and studies produced by academic or multilateral institutions and the thinking of those intimately involved in the industries concerned.
Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles has commissioned a study to determine a minimum liveable wage for Jamaican workers to guide future adjustments in the National Minimum Wage.
The Trinidad and Tobago government has named retired British High Court judge, Sir Gavin Lightman, as the only member of a commission of inquiry probing the financial crisis at the Port-of-Spain-based Colonial Life Insurance Company Trinidad Limited (CLICO).
Maxie Department Store Limited, a family-run chain spread across town centres nationwide, has relocated its New Kingston store to a more "tradable" location in a bid to control losses and boost turnover in a soft market for ready-to-wear apparel.
Despite rising grain prices on the world market on the back of last week's report of lower-than-expected harvest yields in the United States, and the knock-on increase it will mean for chicken-meat prices in Jamaica, one of the country's leading poultry producers is not worried that corn supplies will run short anytime soon.
The five-year-old Credit Union Fund Management Company Limited (CUFMC), having secured authorisation from the Financial Services Commission (FSC) to operate as a securities dealer in 2009, is now aggressively pursuing the building of its client base and has introduced a new US dollar investment product for credit union members and the broader investing public.
The Supreme Court has lifted an injunction against Jamaican businessmen Delroy Howell, Kenarthur Mitchell and First Financial Caribbean International Group Limited and First Financial Caribbean Holdings Limited, which had initially frozen their assets.
A local poultry company has partnered with a credit union lender to teach business skills to 'pan chicken' vendors, whose fare has been on offer from roadside stalls for decades, but few of whom have structured operations.
The chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores expects positive United States sales in the fourth quarter this year as it works to turn around several quarters of sluggish sales.CEO Mike Duke made the remark at an investor meeting in Rogers, Arkansas,...
Jamaica's current budgetary process is unilaterally dominated by the Ministry of Finance with limited inputs from the private sector and other stakeholders.
Apple Inc's shares topped US$300 for the first time Wednesday morning as stellar iPad sales and a planned expansion into China continued to give investors high hopes for the iPhone maker's already healthy prospects...
JPMorgan Chase & Company said on Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 23 per cent because the banking giant was able to set aside less money to cover loan losses.
According to the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), between October 2008 and April 2010 some 86,000 jobs were lost in the private sector. By itself, that is an astounding number. Just think. All the unemployed people are no longer income earners...
British Airways Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh says he does not support the decision of the British government to introduce an Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax that will be further increased at the start...
