THE JAMAICA Chamber of Commerce (JCC) and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) have come out in support of the joint police-military operation in west Kingston.
In one of the few offices of Teleco Haiti that survived January's catastrophic earthquake, the customer-service agents sit idle. The state-run phone company is barely limping back to service.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF) has exercised its rights under World Trade Organisation rules to suspend imports of cheap tilapia from South East Asia....
Yesterday, businesses began pulling up shutters, some warily, signalling a gradual return to trading in the usually bustling downtown Kingston business district, which became deserted after days of unrest in the Corporate...
Trustees of the Cable and Wireless Jamaica Pension Fund have opted to wait out the downturn in the real-estate market in a quest for better offers for three New Kingston properties it wants to offload. The Towers, New Kingston Shopping Centre...
Contractor General Greg Christie has slammed the Government for its attempt to justify a proposed multibillion-dollar deal to sell its 45 per cent stake of the Jamalco alumina refinery to Chinese firm Zhuhai Hongfan Non-ferrous Metals and Chemical...
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WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica's cruise sector remains buoyant despite civil unrest which has rocked sections of the capital city, Kingston. Two of the region's largest cruise lines, Carnival and Royal Caribbean...
A number of reports have reached The Gleaner newsroom about the gallant efforts of many of Jamaica's private security companies, which have been aiding the safe traverse of a number of their private clients to and from...
The Mexican government said Tuesday it will put limits on dollar cash deposits next week in a bid to combat money laundering. Without revealing details, Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero said the new regulations are being imposed because some Mexican...
The upheaval in west Kingston brought the delivery of gasolene and other petroleum products to a halt Tuesday, but a day later, some tanker drivers began showing up to fill their tanks, according to Gleaner checks. The Bank of Jamaica also announced...
Dow drops below 10,000World stock markets and the euro tumbled Tuesday on fears Europe's debt crisis will cause a prolonged slump in the region and weaken the outlook for global growth.
The Cuban government has turned over nearly one million hectares of previously state-owned land to individual farmers, but half of it still lies fallow or is underutilised, highlighting the tremendous challenges...
The United States and China pledged closer cooperation on financial regulation and energy Tuesday but made no breakthroughs on currency-exchange rates in a high-level dialogue overshadowed by Korean tensions.
GraceKennedy Limited will this year be pushing locally a low-cost food brand, Caribbean Choice, that was formerly sold only in the company's overseas markets.
Cable and Wireless Communication Plc, parent company to LIME, has began constructing a new fibre-optic submarine cable that will connect four countries, and which it says will double data-carrier capacity in the region and meet the growing demand for...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange was cautious but undeterred by the raging gunfire across downtown Kingston, from where it operates, but investors were not too keen on trading wealth on Tuesday, leading to a narrow 222 point or .026 per cent slide of the main market index.
Studies by Jamaican re-searchers indicate that where land is already owned, the farming of lemon grass can yield almost four times the investment in a crop now in high demand from the market that prizes healthy eating and wellness.
The tensions and unrest in West Kingston are taking a toll on formal and informal commerce downtown, with one business already shuttering a branch operation in the thick of the city, and vendors and shoppers who normally...
