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Prominent artificial intelligence scholar Timnit Gebru helped improve Google’s public image as a company that elevates Black computer scientists and questions harmful uses of artificial intelligence or AI technology. But internally, Gebru, a leader...

With scarce opportunities for work in the pandemic, a freelance platform created by National Commercial Bank, NCB, is generating interest in and outside Jamaica. The NCB Gig Network, which doubles as a job bank for short-term jobs with the banking...

QUESTION: Twenty-twenty has not been a good year for my business mainly because of the pandemic and fallout from tourism and other industries we used to earn from. I need your advice about how to increase sales for 2021. I have been following you...

How can claimants find out if insurance service providers are properly trained and have the know-how to perform their job functions effectively? Some persons assume that because the provider is employed by an insurer or broker, he has the required...

Now that it’s clear Joe Biden soon will be president of the United States, the fight over automobile pollution and fuel efficiency standards is likely to peter out, and consumers should see a broader selection of electric and efficient vehicles....

Brazil’s economy grew 7.7 per cent in the third quarter of the year from the previous three months, the national statistics institute reported on Thursday — the strongest quarterly result in a quarter century but less than expected following heavy...

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, governments in advanced economies have opened their coffers to support households and small businesses, spending on the order of 15-20 per cent of GDP in many cases. Cumulative debt levels now exceed GDP in many...

Christmas loan specials from microfinance institutions are still being rolled out this year, but borrowers, especially those seeking personal credit, should expect less than half of the value of specials that were trending last year. Small...

Zoom’s videoconferencing service remains a fixture in pandemic life, but its breakneck growth is showing signs of tapering off as investors debate whether the company will be able to build upon its recent success after a vaccine enables people to...

Operators in the corrugated box-making business are back on track with plans for expansion and in a jostle to increase market share, but are doing so with the realisation that, COVID having changed the demand dynamic, they need to find new avenues...

General Motors will not be taking a stake in the electric vehicle company Nikola, and the company said it was scuttling one of its marquee vehicles, an electric and hydrogen-powered pickup, after GM pulled technological support from the project....

Sagicor Real Estate X Fund has sold its remaining Jewel resort at a loss to a related entity, Sagicor Pooled Investment Fund Limited, which is managed by Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited The transaction, which took place on September 22, was recently...