Business

William Shakespeare’s 1597 comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost tells the story of four Frenchmen as they navigate the tension between commitment to intellectual development and the quest for domestic bliss. Some four centuries later, Harvard economist...

Caribbean Cement Company Limited, CCC, wrapped up its third quarter with a substantial profit of $1.9 billion, and the company is signalling that Monday’s quake is unlikely to shake its bottom line. The dust that seemed to envelope the Rockfort...

Environmental groups have urged a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of a meeting of a UN body in Jamaica that conservationists fear will soon authorise the world’s first licence to harvest minerals from the ocean floor. More than 20 countries...

Like most, your company doesn’t have a true product development unit. Instead, folks just run their ideas by the CEO. It’s all quite ad hoc in which the next steps depend on their mood at the moment more than anything else. But as you survey the...

“We love battery EVs.” Takero Kato, the executive in charge of electric vehicles at Toyota, said that not once, but twice, to emphasise what he considers the message at this year’s Tokyo auto show. It’s a message ringing clear at the Tokyo Mobility...

The Financial Gleaner of September 29, 2023, carried a report stating that food manufacturing and distribution company Seprod received approval from its shareholders to increase its authorised share capital. This will allow the company to put more...

Recently, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that Jamaica was looking to include small modular reactor or SMR nuclear power plants among Jamaica’s energy sources. This was repeated by Energy Minister Daryl Vaz in a sectoral debate....

Jamaica Standard Products Limited, JSP, is venturing into what General Manager John Minott says is its first full-blown café, to be called Island Blue Coffee House, a brand to be tested initially in the coffee company’s home parish of Manchester....

Petroleum marketing company Rubis Energy Jamaica Limited will start construction on a new service station adjacent to the Portmore toll plaza early in the new year. The investment was not disclosed. Its last station developed at Catherine Hall in...

Bitcoin is having another moment. The world’s largest cryptocurrency soared to almost US$35,000 this week, marking its highest point in nearly 18 months – and more than double the price seen at the start of 2023. The cryptocurrency rocketed from...

Jamaica Stock Exchange Limited, which operates as JSE Group, is prospecting for business within the Caribbean as a custodian of investment securities. The intent to go regional was first disclosed during the capital markets conference co-hosted by...

Hong Kong’s leader on Wednesday cut taxes for some homebuyers and stock traders to boost markets as the city seeks to maintain its reputation as a global financial hub. Chief Executive John Lee said the extra stamp duties imposed on non-resident...