Business

The Caribbean Agri-business Association (CABA) is far advanced in its mission to promote the necessary changes in agricultural and agro-processing practices that will see the region...

It accounts for only a little over one per cent of all taxes paid in the country, but Jamaicans are increasingly transmitting their returns online and revenue officials...

HAVANA (AP):Cuba is offering a series of small but specific steps the administration of President Barack Obama can take to soften the United States' 48-year-old trade embargo, including expanding flights and establishing ferry service between both...

Big cuts in several areas of the Government's $503.9 billion 2010-2011 budget are on the cards immediately to enable the State to honour a commitment made this month to pay over $500 million to nurses ...

CORAL CABLES, Miami: Jamaica will return to borrowing from the international capital markets, and while Finance Minister Audley Shaw placed no timeline on when, he declared in an international forum on Wednesday that Jamaica...

The over 269.2 million shares offered on the market by three of Lasco's companies in an initial public offering yesterday were oversubscribed in three minutes raising some $650 million, beating the targeted $415 million that was set. Lead broker...

LONDON (AP):A bigger-than-expected rise in United States (US) retail sales data supported stocks Tuesday, a day after markets rallied on the view that new global bank rules will prove to be less onerous than...

CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP): The founder of America's leading supplier of body armour to the United States (US) military was convicted Tuesday of charges that he ran a US$185 million stock scheme...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP):Investors are planning a new sight for arrivals at Port-au-Prince's international airport: A seven-story, 240-room luxury hotel, rising just past the runway.The $33 million project announced Monday is one of the largest...

7 key HABITS to give you an edge - One of the most important discoveries of the past decade in the fields of psychology and success is that 95 per cent of everything that we think, feel, do and achieve is the result of habit.Give yourself an edge in...

Caribbean Risk Managers Limited (CaribRM), a subsidiary of the CGM Gallagher insurance group, has retained for another three years, the management a disaster risk insurance fund set up for Caribbean countries with help from the World Bank."...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): The main opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) is warning citizens to brace themselves for harsher economic conditions...