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SHANGHAI (AP): The recovery in China's manufacturing slowed in May on sluggish new orders and rising inventories, surveys showed Tuesday.

Canada on Tuesday became the first Group of Seven nation to raise interest rates since the global financial crisis, but said any further hikes would depend on global economic conditions....

In spite of a fallout in revenues resulting from the recent several days of civil unrest in west Kingston, economic analysts are upbeat that the situation will not significantly affect the Government's fiscal targets...

Mere months into the one-year lease agreement they reluctantly accepted from the Government to grow sugar cane on lands at Caymanas property on the edge of the Corporate Area, the operators of the privately owned sugar...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): The St Vincent and the Grenadines parliament has unanimously approved a motion in support of an Economic Union of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)....

As business returns to the downtown Kingston area following days of violence there, the losses from missed sales and property damage for operators in the shopping district continue to climb, with projections from the mainly medium to big-business...

BRASILIA, Brazil (CMC):The United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is predicting slower economic growth for the region this year.Deputy Executive Secretary...

With BP making yet another attempt to stem the flow from a blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well - this time only to contain the leak, not stop it - signs point to August before any real end is in sight.Responding to suggestions that the military should...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Mone-tary Fund (IMF), says that the effect of the global economic crisis on the region has been uneven.Addressing the Third Meeting of Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the country stands to lose US$350 million in earnings because of the unrest in Kingston last week resulting from the attack on the state by criminals seeking to block the arrest of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke....

A lucrative marketing deal with elite United States-based coffee house Starbucks could serve as a cushion to the blow Jamaica's high-end-earning coffee industry is expected to suffer from a US$12 million, or more than J$1 billion, plunge in sales, resulting from the extended drought conditions of the past several months.

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