Business

With an investment of more than US$4 million, or approximately J$560 million, and boasting a cannabis oil-processing facility, a dispensary, consultation rooms, guest rooms and a built-in saltwater pool, Apollon Formularies Jamaica and Doc’s Place...

Apple on Monday said it will put up US$2.5 billion towards easing California’s housing crisis. The sum from Apple eclipses pledges by fellow Silicon Valley giants Google and Facebook for addressing the lack of affordable housing in a region where...

Canco Limited, a manufacturing operation based in Seaforth, St Thomas, is looking for at least a 10 per cent jump in revenues from a decision to diversify into co-packing products for both local and international businesses. A producer of canned...

CIBC FirstCaribbean is not saying either way whether the reports of a pending takeover of the bank by the Gilinski group of Colombia are true, but has also not denied them outright. “As a publicly traded company in the Caribbean, there has always...

Investors and sports betting companies are running up the score when it comes to sports betting, predicting the fast-growing industry will be a US$7-billion to US$8-billion business in the United States within five years. But not all the many...

Fitbit is being acquired by Google for about US$2.1 billion, a deal that enables the Internet company to step back into the hotly contested market for smartwatches and health and fitness trackers. Fitbit is a pioneer in wearable technology, but it’...

The Jamaican operations should have been the larger component of a US$240 million deal to sell Scotiabank’s life insurance operations in two regional markets to Sagicor Financial Group. But on Friday, Sagicor Financial announced the cancellation...

QUESTION: I need your help. I am a 26-year-old woman who is a graduate of the University of Technology, Jamaica. I resigned after two years with a good company to join what I considered a better one a little over five months ago. I learnt of the...

Britain is to hold a general election on December 12. It is a decision that the country’s political class hope will end once and for all the damaging debate and procedural manoeuvres about how, when or whether the United Kingdom will leave the...

Today’s piece originated from ideas that were expressed last Thursday by another columnist, Jaristotle, in an article titled ‘Stop this madness, this taxi-mania’. Jaristotle is a pseudonym. I suspect that it is a combination of the two-letter...

The Jamaican Government recently celebrated the belated certification of the now divested Norman Manley International Airport, NMIA, in Kingston as an aerodrome operation to international level. The accomplishment comes some 80 years behind the...

T he 19-country eurozone economy grew at a subdued pace in the third quarter, continuing a shaky upswing amid trade disputes and uncertainty over Brexit. At the same time, weaker inflation figures cast a shadow over the outlook and presented a...