China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far on the game industry as Chinese regulators continue cracking down on the technology sector. Minors in China can only play games...
QUESTION: Can insurers charge unvaccinated persons more premiums for life and health insurance than those that are vaccinated? − S.B., Kingston 5 RISKS...
A COVID-19 resurgence this summer has caused consumers to turn cautious, while investors trim their investments in a travel sector still struggling to recover. Retail sales in America dipped a surprising 1.1 per cent in July as consumers spent less...
QUESTION: I operate in the construction sector but mainly residential renovation and remodelling. The problem is that each month the pandemic goes on, the worse it is getting for my business. In the early days of the pandemic, last year, it was not...
We are very happy when our athletes bring us glory by their outstanding performances at international athletics meets, a case in point being the recently concluded Olympics in Japan. While all team members may return with an exultant spirit because...
Private investors in a stalled private-public partnership to develop the town of Port Royal into a tourist attraction are fighting on in court despite a recent Supreme Court ruling that all but threw out the bid to sue the government and state...
Miracle Corporation, a business that started out in 1973 as a distributor of locally made clothing brands, has grown to 50 brands in nearly half a century but has left behind the garment market, having staged its exit when it had grown heavy with...
Five months into the pandemic, things were getting desperate for Robin Betancourt. The tourists he depended upon as a boat captain were unable to visit the Galapagos Islands, whose isolation – 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the mainland – makes...
Three medium-sized companies – Bare Nutrition Limited, Intermed Company, and Sherwood Forest Coffee Company – have got backing from the Development Bank of Jamaica, DBJ, to expand their businesses, locally and regionally. The $37 million grant...
T he Jamaican economy expanded 12.9 per cent in the April-June quarter, reflecting one of its fastest growth rates, but it still trails pre-pandemic levels. The growth largely reflects recovery from stiff lockdown measures imposed a year earlier...
P rime Minister of St Kitt-Nevis Dr Timothy Harris has welcomed the global ranking of the country’s Citizenship by Investment programme, or CBI, which was cited as having the most rigorous due diligence requirements. Under the CBI, the twin-island...
Chukka Caribbean Adventures and owners of the lands surrounding the Old Spanish Bridge in St Ann have barred unauthorised entrance to the iconic White River, citing unauthorised vending and garbage pile-ups in the area. Chukka said it’s held the...
R arely has a census report received as much attention as the one China released this past May. Given China’s long history of fiddling with demographic data, the one-month delay in releasing its 2020 census results was suspicious, to say the least...
S ome of the country’s leading technology companies have committed to investing billions of dollars to strengthen cybersecurity defences and to train skilled workers, the White House announced on Wednesday following United States President Joe...
The United States economy grew at a robust 6.6 per cent annual rate last quarter, slightly faster than previously estimated, the government said on Thursday in a report that pointed to a sustained consumer-led rebound from the pandemic recession....
H yatt Hotel Corporation will triple its presence in Jamaica under the acquisition of the Apple Leisure Group, which owns various brands, including Secrets Resorts and AMResorts. Currently, two Hyatt-branded hotels are owned and operated in...
Jamaica Broilers Group Limited says its operations in Haiti might take a bit longer to return to normality than initially anticipated, following back-to-back tragedies that have given rise to a month-long state of emergency. The country of 11.5...
The county with jurisdiction over the Las Vegas Strip has joined a legal fight to try to collect what attorneys maintain could be hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid hotel room taxes owed by more than 20 online travel companies. A lawsuit...
T he new four-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, was Crystal Marie and Eskias McDaniels’ personal American dream, and the reason they had moved there from pricey Los Angeles. A lush, long lawn, 2,700 square feet of living space, gleaming...
A lthough Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, minted $230 million of its new digital currency earlier this month as part of a pilot that runs to year end, the sole approved wallet provider so far, National Commercial Bank Jamaica, NCB, is not expected to...
Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan US$200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline’s top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the...
ADVERTORIAL: MC SYSTEMS Data sovereignty should be fully explored by businesses when decisions are being made to store data offsite or in another jurisdiction, as part of its business continuity plan, information technology experts advise. Data...
The Belize government has broken its silence regarding the dismissal of the governor of the country’s central bank, Gustavo Manuel Vasquez, saying that “policy differences” had made it untenable for the parties to continue working together. Earlier...
Walmart says it will start commercialising its delivery service, using contract workers, autonomous vehicles and even drones to deliver other retailers’ products directly to their customers’ homes as fast as a few hours. The Bentonville, Arkansas-...
Sajan Choksi is selling his outsourcing firm Innovative Vision to an American company Support Services Group, SSG, for an undisclosed sum. Innovative Vision operates in Jamaica and Canada with a workforce of 900. “I’ve always been an entrepreneur...
