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Published:Monday | June 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: On the heels of the success of the its inaugural Kingston route, the Bahamian-owned Western Air is touting a larger aircraft to service its Montego Bay-Nassau itinerary for the upcoming winter tourist season...

Published:Monday | June 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Christopher Tufton, says his ministry is developing a food security and nutrition policy programme, to help define food security and how it can influence the nutritional requirements of Jamaicans...

Published:Monday | June 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's coffee industry is at a crossroads and needs diversification if the sector is to move forward, says Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton. According to Tufton, for more than 20 years Japan has been the dominant market for Jamaican coffee...

Published:Sunday | June 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Virgin Atlantic Airways, Britain's second-largest airline, has Jamaican Teresa Lake as sales manager for Jamaica and the Northern Caribbean.Lake will be answerable to Nick Parker, Virgin's regional manager for the Caribbean."We know Teresa is the right...

Published:Sunday | June 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Each member of a pension plan or retirement scheme is legally entitled to a benefit statement annually, to be provided within four months of the end of the financial year end.

Published:Sunday | June 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Interest rates on motor-vehicle loans have fallen to what finance sector insiders are describing as a 15-year low, but consumers are not exactly beating a path to the doors of local lenders.

Published:Sunday | June 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Answers for Children, a children's clothing store in Kingston, is relocating its Manor Centre outlet to upper Manor Park plaza, where it will merge with sister operation Simplicity for Kids.

Published:Sunday | June 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

In the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to haemorrhage from a deep-sea well nearly a mile beneath the ocean and about 40 miles off the United States coast.

Published:Saturday | June 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

IF YOU thought that the colourful sporting spectacle that is the World Cup football finals had reached fever pitch in South Africa, then you need to check Sagicor's offices in Jamaica. The insurance company is putting on a grand World Cup show of its own that is intended to put the sparkle in South Africa to shame.

Published:Saturday | June 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

JOSEPH M. MATALON was unanimously re-elected to lead the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) for a second successive term on Wednesday.

Published:Saturday | June 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

DEVELOPERS OF lighting and solar technology made a presentation yesterday to business and ministry stakeholders, demonstrating how to reduce reliance on Jamaica's energy grid by more than 50 per cent.

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Trinidad and Tobago's new Finance Minister Winston Dookeran has appointed a three-member committee to probe the merger deal between Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) and Air Jamaica.

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Denis O'Brien has moved to tidy up his mobile holdings, executing in this quarter the acquisition of stand-alone company Digicel Pacific Limited (DPL), which now joins the larger Digicel Group Limited family.Digicel Group bought the Pacific business for...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaican central bank trimmed interest rates again this week, cutting the price of its one-month certificate of deposit by half a point to 9.0 per cent on the back of better than expected inflation numbers.The Bank of...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

RBTT Bank Jamaica has launched a foreign currency credit line for small and medium businesses, offering loans of up to US$250,000 at a discount.The US$10-million fund is available for subscription at 7.5 per cent and 8.0 per cent interest by the export...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Industry and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda has set a November date for the construction of 100,000 square feet of new factory space at Naggo Head in St Catherine.But the project, which has been on the table since last year, will now cost J$700 million...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has placed a ban on the importation of used motor vehicle tyres effective July 1, six months after relaxing the rules in an effort to clear a 6,000 backlog at the wharves.The number of tyres sitting on the ports...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Track Price Plus Limited is planning a multimillion head-start to cash in on a one-month old legislative change that expands business possibilities for bookmakers, even as the country's betting and gaming watchdog is...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Sagicor Life of Jamaica is shedding the historic Blue Cross of Jamaica property, acquired 18 months ago when it bought the company's health-insurance portfolio for J$1.7 billion.

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica continues to be attractive to United States investors, despite the recent civil unrest in west Kingston, says Rick Wade, senior adviser and deputy chief of staff at the US Department of Commerce.

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The initial public offering for Jamaican Teas Limited was oversub-scribed two minutes after subscriptions opened in Kingston to a hungry equities market.Mayberry Investments Limited (MIL) lead broker and financial adviser to Jamaican Teas, advised in a...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Are you a 'well-thinking' Jamaican? If so, does this mean that the three pound mass of jelly that is the human brain is functioning properly? That the 100 billion nerve cells interacting with each other are firing normally?

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

With an eye on improving what it said was a flat sales performance over the past two years, large distributor HD Hopwood Limited has spent more that J$8 million to set up a new warehouse in Montego Bay, targeting the scores of smaller mom-and-pop shops...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The makeover of Rapid True Value stores will start showing results by August when the first store will be unveiled in Kingston, but Hardware and Lumber (H&L) Limited, the operating company for the chain, says it is still tidying up the project...

Published:Friday | June 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Spirit Airlines made a deal with its pilots on Wednesday that will end their strike, and the airline said it would fly again starting today, Friday.

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