Thirteen years after it changed ownership, the now Hendrickson family-run Sunset Beach Resort and Spa, located on the tip of the Montego Freeport peninsula in Montego Bay, is yet to find...
CGM Gallagher Group, the largest and one of the oldest insurance brokers in the English-speaking Caribbean, formally met clients in St Ann Tuesday evening, who were formerly with Zenith...
In a move that could be a game-changer in the local mobile telephone business, Claro, Jamaica, the most recent entrant in the highly competitive telecoms market, has announced that it will be investing US$300 million, or more than J$26 billion...
Well do we remember the Gun Court, don't we? Red and dread, immediate in impact, it was billed as decisive - one bullet, perhaps even a spent shell in one's car, was visited with a draconian, mandatory sentence.
While many companies continue to tally the investment income decline arising from the Government-imposed bond exchange, at least one listed company, Sagicor Life Jamaica, is highlighting accompanying positives it reaped on its 2009 financials...
Hunting improved efficiency and lower costs, PanCaribbean Financial Services Limited (PCFS) is winding up its asset-management subsidiary, PanCaribbean Asset Management Limited (PCAM), and merging its unit trust management activities into the mainstream...
Principals of residential property developer New Era Homes 2000, Leo Taddeo and Benedetto 'Benny' Persichilli say they are now putting together US$80 million or J$7 billion, possibly with help from the National Housing Trust (NHT), to finance a project...
The recent dismissal by the Telecommunications Appeals Tribunal (TAT) of a challenge which telecoms firm Digicel had mounted against a 2004 declaration by utilities watchdog, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR)...
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States trade deficit rose to the highest level in 16 months as exports fell for the second time in three months, a potentially worrisome sign that Europe's debt troubles are beginning to crimp American manufacturers....
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC):Communications giant LIME (formerly Cable & Wireless) has buckled under pressure from the Baldwin Spencer administration, reversing rate increases it had announced earlier this month.LIME announced rate increases...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP):United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Latin American nations on Tuesday to impose a heavier tax burden on the wealthy, saying the region's economic growth and competitiveness depend on it...
Businessman and longtime retailer, Sameer Younis is selling two of his five Samm's departmental store locations and handing over the remaining three to his son, Alan Younis, as he retires from the retail trade in which he has operated for decades...
The Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica has expressed concern about the poor working conditions in the public sector, which it has linked to the stagnant flow of professionals into state facilities. President of the society...
The second staging of the GraceKennedy Education Run is aiming to raise $3 million to assist in funding social programmes for members of inner-city communities.Last year's inaugural event raised approximately $1.8 million which went into education...
The effect of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is among topics for discussions at an informal meeting between Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers and the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Barbados today.
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: Vendors who traditionally sell in the Spaldings Municipal Market in Clarendon, which was demolished more than five years ago to make way for the construction of a new facility, are calling for immediate action...
Trinidad and Tobago recorded a near one per cent increase in its unemployment rate for the last three months of 2009, according to figures released here yesterday by the Central Statistical Office (CSO).It said that at the end of the fourth quarter...
At the recently held annual general meeting of the Custom Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association of Jamaica (CBFFAJ), Donovan Wignal was returned unopposed as president.
Special Representative of the World Bank, Badrul Haque has called for Jamaicans to unite against crime and violence, saying the country's very existence is at risk....
WESTERN BUREAU: Demonstrating confidence in 'Destination Jamaica', 33 meeting planners and incentive buyers representing 25 companies arrived here last Thursday, opening new...
Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson has disclosed that the Government is seriously contemplating whether he should take charge of the Financial Investigations Division (FID).The FID is being banked on to play a major role in breaking the links...
The clean-up exercise in the burnt-out section of the Coronation Market by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) began yesterday, as the crew worked assiduously to clear the rubble. Regional Operations Manager David Bloomfield said...
A few minutes before midday on June 7, 1692, a massive earthquake struck the city of Port Royal. A huge tidal wave swallowed up ships in the harbour and destroyed many of the buildings. Most of the city disappeared under the sea.
Sandals hotel chain bosses, Gordon 'Butch' Stewart and son, Adam Stewart, have downplayed the importance of a planned multi-family housing development they are to undertake in the swanky Freeport area of the resort city of Montego Bay.
