Business

Are there links between business and crime? Obviously, yes! But are they positive, negative, more one than the other? Jamaica Chamber of Commerce says the operation in Tivoli Gardens last week is likely to have a tab of...

Johnathan Brown, retired director of domestic debt in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, has been elected president of the Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League (JCCUL) at it 69th annual general meeting held on May 22.Brown succeeds...

The office of the attorney general (AG) has sided with the Ministry of Energy and Mining (MEM) in the ongoing feud between that department and the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) over the proposed...

The state-owned monopoly piped water provider, National Water Commission (NWC), is accustomed to revenue shortfalls, a situation that has got from bad to worse. With net consumer receivables of more than $2.7 billion up to February...

Listed conglomerate, Grace-Kennedy Limited has struck a deal with the Government that will see the aggressive financial services, food distribution and hardware retailer planting its feet firmly in the trade in fruits and vegetables, which agriculture ministry officials...

IN A move that could pave the way for lower call rates locally, the Telecommunications Appeals Tribunal has dismissed an appeal from Mossel Jamaica Limited against a decision of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR)....

WASHINGTON (AP): Construction activity surged in April by the largest amount in nearly a decade.

Despite the global financial crisis, world military spending almost doubled in the past decade to reach US$1.53 trillion in 2009, a Swedish think tank said Wednesday.

World stocks fell Tuesday and the euro continued to slide as Europe's shaky government finances and concerns about slower growth in China made investors jittery.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) says despite the prolonged dry spell it has recorded "a reasonable" first crop for 2010.

Four years into its war against unregulated financial organisations (UFOs), the Government's watchdog for the securities investment sector, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) has admitted that it is uncertain whether some unregulated entities...

Securities dealer and investment house, Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited (JMMB), has reported a 10.5 per cent net profit decline for the year ended March to $986 million, showing an about turn on the profit...