Business

Realtors say there is no surplus of office space in the uptown business district of New Kingston, but at least one investor who relies on the usually top-end rentals the area commands, says they have space that is slow in getting off their hands.

Former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Jamaica Employers'Federation (JEF), Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd, has been appointed to the board of Sagicor Life Jamaica.

Using general consumption tax (GCT) returns as a measure of business buoyancy for micro and small enterprises (MSEs), these entities registered major sales declines in 2009, as evidenced by a $96.4 billion fall-off in business over 2008, the Government's latest issue of the Economic and Social Survey of Jamaica (ESSJ) compiled by the country's economic planning and monitoring authorities, has shown.

The Government is pressing ahead with an ambitious plan to tap into the lucrative import-substitution market, especially involving the sale of food to the local hotels. However, lingering doubts are still being voiced about both the ability of Jamaican producers to displace foreign suppliers, and the desirability of presenting tourists with only locally produced staples.

Starting July 1, Air Jamaica will resume daily flights to Grand Cayman, as well as the return of its summer service from New York (JFK) to the islands of Barbados and Grenada.

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.