Business

Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana's barrier islands with one-ton sacks of sand Monday to bolster the state's crucial wetlands against the epic Gulf of Mexico oil spill - 4...

People choose to leave their job for varying reasons, but one of the best times to quit is when you have decided the time is right to give reign to your inner entrepreneur and your dream of starting a business. The feeling of independence it brings tends...

Former attorney general of Grenada Dr Francis Alexis says Grenada did not get the best deal in the maritime delimitation agreement it signed last month with Trinidad and Tobago. Alexis, a constitutional expert...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: International financiers see Jamaica as a top destination for hotel developments and are willing to back investors rolling out projects here, a new KPMG survey has found. The institutions surveyed have a total exposure to the industry...

The market continues to exhibit some signs of weakness as evidenced by the relatively weaker ratio of advancing to declining stocks. Most of the volume traded this week was executed closer to the bids rather than offer prices....

Cable and Wireless Communications Plc (CWC) is going after full settlement of legal fees, "which could run to US$24 million", spent over three years fighting the lawsuit brought against its Caribbean subsidiaries by Digicel Group.

Question: My car was stolen 11 months ago.The claim was settled for J$897,000. It was my first and only claim. Other insurers don't want my business.

LUCEA, Hanover: Investors of the Spanish-owned Fiesta Hotel will be investing US$180 million to add another 800 rooms to the hotel at Point in Lucea, Hanover.Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism, and Abel Matutes, chief executive officer of the Fiesta...

GTECH Corp is having exploratory talks with local partner Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) on new areas in which the two can do business, says the American company's chairman, Donald Sweitzer. "We are talking to our...

Claro Jamaica, the most recent entrant in the dynamic and highly competitive mobile telecoms market, has set its sights on growing market share by another 20 per cent this year. To this end, the firm, which is ultimately...

Zenith Insurance Brokers Limited has now sold off its personal-line insurance business, completing the divestment of its entire portfolio and paving the way for the 26-year-old insurance brokerage to be wound up...

An American company which specialises in the manufacture of food products has struck a deal to invest US$1.2 million to run a cookie- and candy-making business under its Just Delicious brand at the old Jockey International...