The Jamaica Broilers Group of Companies is laying the groundwork to expand its operation into neighbouring Haiti. This is, however, not likely to happen before early next year, pending the outcome of presidential elections, which are constitutionally due in November. ...
The Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) has confirmed several speakers for its 2010 annual general meeting, conference and exhibition to be held in Jamaica, October 11-13. Among them is chief economist, Dr Walter Kemmsies, PhD....
SOME OF the multilateral trade agreements which Jamaica is a part of need to be re-examined because they are "very biased" to outside producers and are not in the best interest of local farmers, Senator Norman Grant has charged.
Securities dealers have picked Anya Schnoor once again to be their chief spokeswoman on issues affecting the investment sector with policymakers and regulators.
Agro-Investment Corporation (AIC) has approved 34 projects for funding at a cost of J$126.22 million, sticking closely with its mandate of agriculture business facilitation.
Another housing development is about to hit the market in the Hellshire area of St Catherine, and the developer says he is targeting the upper middle-income home buyers.
The Grenada government has refuted claims by Swedish developers Zublin that it refused to meet with them to discuss a multi-million-dollar tourism project on the island.
Bishop Damien Ffriend, church-based entrepreneur, has heightened his quest to use the skills of his congregation into building businesses from which they can earn income, through a partnership with businessman Robert Gregory Jr.
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TANG JIANGUO, chairman of Chinese firm COMPLANT International Sugar Company Limited, the new owners of the Frome, Monymusk and Bernard Lodge estates, says his company will be seeking to maximise the use of local labour in...
China has agreed to finance and build a stalled mega-resort in the Bahamas, where the tourism economy has been battered by slashed occupancy rates and reduced foreign investment during the global downturn....
Toyota is recalling 412,000 passenger cars, mostly the Avalon model, in the United States, and another 16,420 vehicles in Japan for steering problems, the automaker said Thursday.The 373,000 Avalons being recalled...
Jamaica's number three commercial bank, RBTT, has joined other big lenders in a cut of loan rates, effective August 1. The bank is cutting 225 basis points or 2.25 percentage points off its base rate, from 20.
Jamaica has created a new tax-incentive programme for hospitality companies under which licensed hotel operators can upgrade and refurbish their properties at subsidised cost.The programme, which adds a new layer of subsidy to the existing tax-holiday...
Were it possible to avoid the politics of the now lapsed state of public emergency, we might consider a few situations that might help us understand why mere pursuit of states of emergency shall not cure Jamaica's crime and violence problem....
Victoria Mutual Building Society's underperforming loans have almost doubled in the past three years, and is now at the point where regulators sit up and take notice.
The savings were relatively small at less than five per cent, but in the first calendar quarter Jamaica's reduced demand for imports cut its spending bill on foreign goods by US$59.5 million, Statin has reported.Jamaica bought fewer chemicals...
In the nation said to have more drinking bars per capita than any other, the upscale pub, English-style, has made its appearance. Being marketed primarily to local clients, the Prince of Wales pub...
The International Monetary Fund said China's yuan is undervalued, in a mildly worded assessment on Wednesday of its controversial currency controls, and praised Beijing's response to the global crisis....
Former executives of the Montego Bay-based call centre ACS E-Services Limited, Karl Graham and David Fullwood are expanding their own call centre operation, Fullgram Solutions Limited.
A group of Jamaican businessmen of Chinese lineage, including Wayne Chen, have entered the wireless broadband market and have set sight on target markets in under-served rural districts not reached by the any of the top four telecoms....
The Jamaican economy created J$121 billion of value in the January to March period, but the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin) is reporting that tourism and transport were stars among the sectors that shed value as a group....
