Venezuelan regulators have taken over management at 31 brokerage companies while investigating what they say may be illegal currency-trading practices, as well as money-laundering and management problems ...
Joseph M. Matalon, president of the Private Sector Organisation (PSOJ), has declared that the group will been ensuring that the prime minister's promises about political renewal are kept. Golding made the promises in a national broadcast on Monday night....
Guyana is talking with one of China's largest telecommunication suppliers as it finalises a plan to provide cheaper Internet access and provide connection in rural areas.
WESTERN BUREAU: THE MINISTRY of Tourism, in partnership with the private sector, yesterday began its series of regional forums to sensitise the tourism industry on its proposed pensions and retirement scheme with a meeting in Montego Bay, St James...
Jamaica has faced its first test by its multilateral creditors with relative ease and is to be rewarded with a drawdown of special drawing rights of 63.7 million or 23.3 per cent of quota, equivalent to about J$8.649...
McIntosh Bedding Company, the Jamaican franchisee of the top-end Sealy sleep systems, has wrapped up what it said was a six-year search for a well appointed location in Montego Bay from which to showcase and sell its beds...
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it expects regional economies, which were adversely affected by the global recession in 2009, will begin to show real signs of recovery next year.'In 2010, growth is expected to return to some of the global...
GraceKennedy's board has approved a more generous dividend policy that will now see the conglomerate paying returns to shareholders three times per year instead of two....
With the price of gold internationally at more than US$1,200 per ounce and the precious metal fetching between J$12,000 and J$14,000 per ounce on the local market, Steve Khemlani, the managing director of the Jewelerama and Khemlani group of companies...
One of Allen Stanford's two new lawyers has asked a judge for permission to withdraw from the case, saying the disgraced financier has fired him. Mike Essmyer, a Houston criminal defence lawyer, told United States...
Airone Ventures Limited (AVL), a start-up airline, which three years ago sought a home in Jamaica, is likely to begin operations in Barbados later this year.AVL, which has a Barbados address, is advertising...
Central American countries and the European Union has reached agree-ment on the first ever free trade deal between the two regions, the parties announced in a joint statement Tuesday. It said the deal...
Pfizer Inc said Tuesday it will cut 6,000 jobs as it trims its manufacturing capacity worldwide after acquiring smaller rival Wyeth last year.The world's biggest drugmaker says it will cease...
Achieving anything of significance in your career beyond turning on your computer requires teamwork. There are many theories and ideas about teamwork, many of which are often contradictory. Consider the following well-known...
Aviation association IATA on Tuesday slammed European governments for their handling of the volcanic ash crisis, saying the decisions to close airspace had been neither effective nor consistent. Its criticism follows cancellation of 1,000 flights...
Stakeholders in the shipping industry have agreed that more collaboration is needed among the various authorities that have a role in the protection of Jamaica's borders. The stakeholders who attended The Shipping Association of Jamaica's (SAJ) panel...
China boosted its holdings of United States Treasury debt for the first time in six months.That development could ease concerns that lagging foreign demand will force the US government to pay higher interest rates to finance its debt...
Rarely would anyone take advice from someone who dabbled in crack cocaine, a man who abused alcohol or an individual who led a life of criminality during his teenage years and was finally arrested...
The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) an agency of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, will waive entry fees for children visiting its museums and other exhibitions at all locations during Workers' Week scheduled for May 16 to 24....
IN A bid to defuse simmering tension within the Seventh-day Adventist movement over King's House's approval of the Casino Gaming Act, a St Andrew pastor has warned members of the denomination not to expect the establishment of "an Adventist papacy" ...
THEY SPEND hours on the corner, hanging out on the rough end telling stories, dreaming or simply idling. Branded 'unattached' and 'at risk', this worrying group of approximately 140,000 young people between 14 and 24 years...
Apart from heavy trading in blue-chip stocks, NCBJ, 63 million units, and JBG, 11 million units on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, trading activity continued to be low-key.
Churches Cooperative Credit Union Limited (CCCU) is positioning to snap up smaller competing agencies which are expected to become merger or acquisition targets, as new central bank rules are implemented...
Despite the poor take-up of its previous energy line of credit, the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) is ready to roll out $500 million in loan funding under the DBJ/PetroCaribe Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Energy Fund to...
