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The National Housing Trust (NHT) has put a price tag of J$1.92 billion on its Ruthven Road project, but said home construction there is still a year away.The trust has already selected A.G.

While an increasing number of properties in Jamaica and the Caribbean have embraced the all-inclusive concept to lock in tourist spend, reduce visitor safety concerns or otherwise enhance the vacation experience...

World financial officials are warning that heightened tensions among nations over currency values pose a threat to a fragile global economy.Leaders at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank said on Thursday that a conflict between...

Heavy rains which pounded the island for several days last week resulting in major flooding across the country and causing damage to roads and bridges estimated at J$12 billion, looks set to throw...

Verizon Wireless said on Wednesday that its new wireless broadband network, which offers higher data speeds initially for laptop users, will be live before the end of the year in the cities on the Boston-to-Washington stretch as well as in California,...

Fitch is giving General Motors Company a junk-level credit rating, saying its pensions remain underfunded and the auto market remains uncertain.

The Brazilian government says the nation's 2010 grain harvest is expected to be 11 percent higher than last year's.

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) is proposing sweeping reforms of the financial-services sector for tough new restrictions, licensing, reporting and other requirements that would effectively tighten the operating...

Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has ordered a commission of enquiry into the root causes that led to the financial collapse of several CL Financial companies which she described as a "scandal of monumental proportions"...

The risk of a destabilising bout of deflation has grown as the United States and other countries struggle with weak economic recoveries and lingering financial problems.That assessment, contained in a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) report...

WELFARE CONSIDERATIONS will not be a major focus of the Government as it moves to restore the country in the aftermath of the system which became Tropical Storm Nicole last week....

THE HEAD of Jamaica's Customs, Danville Walker, has proposed the mandatory filing of income tax returns by the island's residents as a move towards broadening the tax net, allowing for a lowering of the nominal tax rate and improving the environment ...