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Singapore said on Monday it has reached open-skies agreements with Jamaica and Barbados, its first with any CARICOM country.

Former United States President Bill Clinton says he will dedicate the next three years of his life in helping to rebuild Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake.The United Nations Special Envoy...

Members of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) have developed a 10-point deliverables plan to guide the progress of the Regional Integrated Maritime Strategy (RIMS). RIMS is the long-term synergistic plan of action for the maritime sector...

St Kitts and Nevis is planning a new 17 per cent sales tax and a 10 hotel levy to boost revenue, taking a page from other Caribbean nations that have overhauled their tax schemes as tourism replaces sugar as the main source of income....

what are some of the things that can be done now to spur agricultural growth in Manchester?...

Seeking to resuscitate sagging earnings from credit products, local banks have sought to jazz up their credit-card offerings in a market that is now flat. But as the card revamp takes shape as part of a broader credit portfolio revamp, rates are being held fairly high by all the banks, with some institutions even using punitive pricing and other policies to keep the lid on bad credit.

With interest rates trending downwards and government paper not as attractive as before, businessman Steven Whittingham is suggesting that investors think about investing in private companies as an asset class.

The National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica (EXIM), a financier of export companies, says a US$23 million short-term credit line introduced last year at eight per cent interest has been totally consumed, but demand is unabated.

The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is backing the government's move to replace heavy fossil fuels with liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the country's main generating source for electricity, which it says could mean cheaper electricity...

GlaxoSmithKline's drug Avandia should stay on the market, federal health experts voted Wednesday, but the controversial diabetes pill should be subject to new restrictions due to risky heart-related side effects. A panel of United States Food and Drug...

PwC names new partner - PricewaterhouseCoopers Jamaica has named Paul Williams a partner, assigned to assurance services, with particular emphasis on external audit, leveraging his primary expertise in the financial services industry....

For two long years, the Irish have suffered through harsh government cutbacks and tax increases that have taken a fat chunk out of their take-home pay - painful medicine to avoid national bankruptcy. After all that, they're ready to cut some more...