Business

NEW YORK (AP): Top corporate executives are not quite as optimistic about sales growth now as they were in June, suggesting that some are putting plans to hire more workers on hold.Two-thirds of the chief executives that Business Roundtable...

Edward B. Beharry & Company Limited (EBB), a food manufacturing company in Guyana, seeking to expand its footprint in Jamaica is sourcing an exclusive distributor for its product within the island....

A $100-million repair of a burnt-out section of the Coronation Market, financed by the telecoms provider Digicel, will be completed by year-end. But that will only be the first phase of a half-a-billion-dollar project...

Jamaica Public Service (JPS), the light and power company, has outlined a plan for converting its power plants from oil to gas, on which it says it needs answers before it can clearly commit as a client for natural gas under the administration's proposed...

The Maritime Authority of Jamaica hosted a regional training workshop on basic electronic-navigational charting (ENC) and electronic navigational chart production, from September 6-17, at the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI).According to Colin Young...

Money responds to all things. For any vision or God-given plan to come forth it takes money. Many have died because of a lack of money! Many laws, credit scores, access to other countries, justice or injustice are all tied to money.

CHICAGO (AP):Proclaiming that he believes in the education visions of New Jersey's Republican governor and Newark's Democratic mayor, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg on Friday pledged to set up a foundation to donate US$100 million to Newark's schools...

ROME (AP):Delegates at a special United Nations (UN) meeting on Friday, prompted by worries over high food prices, discussed a grain-export ban by Russia, and its impact on cereal markets, although experts said good harvests should help prevent a repeat...

SAO PAULO (AP):Brazil's state-run oil company raised $70 billion in the world's largest share offering, proceeds that will be used to tap some of the largest oil reserves discovered in decades.Despite concerns about a growing government role in Petroleo...

WASHINGTON (AP): Taking his blowhard act to Congress, comedian Stephen Colbert told United States lawmakers that one day of picking beans alongside illegal immigrants convinced him that farm work is "really, really hard".

Barbados, (CMC): The Barbados government says it will be implementing a warning system to track the island's economic performance in the various sectors and to assist enterprises in re-organising their business activities so as to sustain the current levels of employment.

COK Sodality has purchased a 25 per cent stake in the three-year-old securities firm MoneyMasters Limited, giving its over 230,000 members access to an expanded suite of investment offerings.Both parties refused to disclose the purchase price, and...