Business

The iPhone 4 has arrived, but for some people the wait continues as Apple sprints to keep up with fierce demand for its latest gadget.

An old, rusty truck and a few discarded appliances greet visitors at the entrance to Spring Village, St Catherine. The community, which adjoins Spring Gardens and Nightingale Grove, is reminiscent of a ghost town. However, these three communities are far from dead, and farmers there are in a militant mood.

Small and micro-businesses were particularly hard-hit in the recession, losing half their markets last year, while hundreds of proprietorships and 'own-account owners' appeared to have shuttered operations...

I'm driving along Flamingo Road in South Florida, listening to a popular Jamaican radio station in the region; breaking news: Christopher 'Dudus' Coke captured in Jamaica.

THE ROLLOUT of its new German car dealership will cost ATL Automotives Limited considerably more than announced four months ago. The bill is now estimated at around US$23 million for the development of showrooms and service centres in both Kingston and Montego Bay...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board of directors has signed off on a disbursement of SDR 63.7 million or US$93.9 million (J$8.06 billion) to Jamaica, having finalised its review of the country's first test under the standby arrangement signed...

TWO YEARS after it changed ownership, the Hilton Kingston hotel is to undergo a name change, again. Delroy Howell, the new owner, has said he is advanced in plans to sever ties with Hilton World-wide...

World leaders who addressed a severe economic crisis with an unprecedented show of strength last year are finding it harder to maintain their solidarity in the face of new challenges.Despite US appeals to refrain from removing stimulus measures too...

An international effort to truly limit whale hunting collapsed Wednesday, leaving Japan, Norway and Iceland free to keep killing hundreds of mammals a year, even raiding a marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters unchecked.The breakdown put diplomatic...

Oil executives sharply criticised United States (US) President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deep-water drilling at a major industry conference Tuesday, saying the world did not have enough other sources of oil to eliminate using deep-sea rigs.

Germany's car industry, the backbone of Europe's largest economy, is booming again. Fuelled by the huge appetite for German luxury cars in China and the fact that the plunging euro has made European products cheaper abroad, manufacturers...

Dr Denzil Douglas, chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), says an economic union among member countries should start to take effect early next year, following last Friday's historic signing...