Business

Development Bank of Jamaica, DBJ, will develop a sustainability reporting structure for local entities, particularly small companies trying to access certain levels of funding. Sustainability reporting focuses on areas beyond financial reporting to...

Debate over proposed regulations for deep-sea mining will stretch into next year as a United Nations agency that presides over the international seabed concluded its last meeting of the year on Wednesday. The ongoing debate has led to growing...

When Hurricane Irma slammed into the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm in 2017, the government temporarily evacuated the entire population of some 1,600. Even before many people returned, American developers were allowed in and...

Gary ‘Butch’ Hendrickson, head of National Baking Company Limited, is exasperated with what he describes as recurring issues relating to raw materials import restrictions caused by government regulations that serve no one’s interests and continue...

General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October. The company said in documents posted by United States...

The Jamaican government’s $46.6 billion bond issued internationally but linked to the Jamaican dollar forms part of a strategy to convert more of the country’s debt to local currency. It’s the first global bond to be linked to the JMD, the Ministry...

Malaysian oil company Petronas has made a significant oil discovery off the coast of the country. Subsidiary Petronas Suriname E...

Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited, JBM, expects to max out capacity at the Reynolds Pier if, as expected, limestone shipments volumes rise to 1.5 million metric tonnes, or six times their current levels. Once that happens, the company plans to expand...

As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China’s appetite for beef. No longer out of reach for China’s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens. China has become the world’s biggest importer of beef, and...

Businesses expect higher inflation but stable interest rates by the end of this year, according to a new Bank of Jamaica survey. About 56 per cent of those surveyed think the rate will remain unchanged to December, and that’s up from 48 per cent in...

Morale and trust within the Walt Disney World government has deteriorated since allies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took it over earlier this year, according to many employees who have departed in recent months, saying the governing district...