Business

The Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) has announcedthat by August 2011, its services will be fully available electronically, and more accessible to its customers.Compliance manager at the COJ, Heather Sutherland, said by March next year, clients will be...

Western Canadian beef producers have found a novel way of putting the "bar" in barbecue.Angus cattle in British Columbia's Okanagan wine and cattle region are being fed red wine with their grain.

Telecommunications provider LIME failed in its attempt on Thursday to get a court order to compel its competitor Digicel Ltd to lower its landline-to-mobile rate to make it similar to LIME's landline to Digicel's mobile rate.

Information Minister Daryl Vaz says the distribution of work to persons under the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) will not be done along political partisan lines.

In 1953, the first three barrels of Blue Mountain coffee were shipped to Japan, and so began a long relationship which led to nearly 100 per cent, or approximately 400,000 boxes, of Jamaica's premium coffee being exported to the Asian country annually.

A senior official of a Korean investment company promising to pump billions of dollars into selected government projects says there is nothing sinister about the decision to invest in Grenada, a country ...

Scotia DBG Investments Limited is reporting that its regional bond fund has already surpassed its one-year subscription targets by more than 50 per cent, and has more than 1,000 investors on board.

The Gleaner, through Jamaica's Access to Infor-mation Act, unearthed emails revealing previously 'secret' communication between Solicitor General Douglas Leys and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in the matter...

An oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, spreading a mile-long (1.6 kilometre-long) oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico west of the site of BP's massive spill.All 13 crew members were rescued.Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill...

The Bahamas government says it will not consider new oil exploration or drilling applications for the vast archipelago's waters until a "very stringent" environmental framework is put in place. The environment ministry will also review existing licences...

West Indies Home Contractors (WIHCON) will be investing close to J$1 billion on two residential developments in Mona, with an eye on the homebuyer market segment for professionals and entrepreneurs. The developer last...

NORTH WEST Clarendon member of parliament (MP) Michael Stern has blamed a lack of funding for foot-dragging on the construction of a new market in Spaldings, which lies on the Clarendon-Manchester border...