Business

Food and financial services group GraceKennedy Limited will engage investment bankers about the potential listing of its foods business, GraceKennedy Foods, on an international stock exchange next year. Refreshed talks around the listing of the...

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President of the United States Joe Biden said Monday he is nominating Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, endorsing his stewardship of the economy through a brutal pandemic recession in which the Fed’s ultra-low rate...

Another week of Brexit negotiations still left the European Union awaiting a firm counterproposal from the United Kingdom on Friday to ease a stand-off over how to deal with the country’s departure from the bloc. Both sides are fighting over...

Last week, Jamaica joined over 100 countries around the world in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021. The theme for several countries this year centred on rebuilding and rebooting in the wake of the global pandemic. However, the...

When I sat down to write part one of this article during the last week of October, I had no clue that I would return to the subject. Weeks later, I was gratified to learn that there are more important ‘apostles’ around who believe in the doctrine...

The major international airports in Jamaica earned US$75 million, the equivalent of over $11 billion, in combined revenue over the first nine months of this year. But while their performance was better than the peak pandemic year, the inflows for...

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, COP26, fell far short of what is needed for a safe planet, owing mainly to the same lack of trust that has burdened global climate negotiations for almost three decades. Developing countries...

BCMG Insurance Brokers Limited is among the newest intermediaries in the Jamaican insurance marketplace, but the company, born of the July 1 merger of once-rival insurance brokers Billy Craig and MGI, has many years in the business, a formidable...

JMMB Group Limited is setting up an alternative payments division through which it will expand remittance and banking services. It is awaiting regulatory approval from the Bank of Jamaica for the roll-out of several payment solutions and services...

Caribbean Cement Company shareholders will indicate in three weeks on whether they approve of a plan to start paying royalties to ultimate parent, international construction company Cemex, for the use of its trademarks and other intellectual...