E-cigarettes aren’t considered as risky as regular cigarettes, but researchers have found a clue that their flavourings may be bad for the heart. Long-time smokers who can’t kick the addiction sometimes switch to e-cigarettes, in hopes of avoiding...
After more than a decade of rapid growth, Chinese travel to the United States is falling. And that has cities, malls and other tourist spots scrambling to reverse the trend. Travel from China to the US fell 5.7 per cent in 2018 to 2.9 million...
CHRISTCHURCH, Barbados: Tahseen Sayed, World Bank country director for the Caribbean, says more investment is needed to save lives in a region hit annually by storms. And Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley wants Caribbean nations to create...
Jamaica’s life insurance companies continue to manage more than 50 per cent of local pension funds, according to the latest data from the Financial Services Commission, FSC, which is also reporting that the market has grown to $601 billion in value...
Performance in equities was muted because of low earning reports among listed companies but the asset class retains its starring role among investors, according to the central bank’s latest monetary report for the quarter ending March. Investments...
Carube Copper Corporation made new gold and copper finds in Jamaica and wants to drill for the metals, according to the Canadian company’s latest market filings . There are strong levels of gold in the soil and rocks, and the Main Ridge project...
Instant-Save Conservation Solutions Jamaica Limited, a five-year-old company that distributes water-saving technology, is about to venture into Barbados. Talks are under way for the expansion, which is expected to cost the company $6 million, says...
Fiat Chrysler proposed on Monday to merge with France’s Renault to create the world’s third-biggest automaker, worth US$40 billion, and combine forces in the race to make electric and autonomous vehicles. The merged company would reshape the global...
Pay for CEOs at the biggest companies in the United States climbed 7 per cent last year, widening the gap between chief executives and their workers, whose pay did not rise as quickly. Here are the highest-paid CEOs in the S...
Pennsylvania’s treasury department is accusing about a dozen large financial firms of working together to illegally inflate the price of bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over seven years. A federal court filing by Pennsylvania Treasurer...
Kingston Wharves’ car-transhipment business has outgrown the 18 acres of land it leased at the Tinson Pen aerodrome and filled up another 15 acres it bought near the wharf devoted to motor vehicle storage. And company officials are predicting even...
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Being a head of government or a foreign minister is a thankless task. Although normally advised by a small number of able civil servants and ambassadors, the pressure that senior politicians personally experience can be acute, particularly when...
QUESTION: I recently reached out to a financial adviser regarding a savings account that can make the money work for me, sort of, like the extra, let’s say, $5,000 out of my salary that I normally use to buy clothes, shoes, maybe go out with, the...
Gleaner articles provide the subtext for today’s piece. One was headlined ‘Safeguarding our Children.’ It was written by Cecelia Campbell-Livingston and published on May 18. Mrs Campbell-Livingston writes about family, religion and other matters....
COK Sodality Cooperative Credit Union is working with two foreign outfits to develop a financing programme for renewable energy products targeted at micro, small- and medium-enterprises and low-income households. The EcoMicro programme is a...
Call centre operator Conduent Inc will be expanding its Jamaican operations, a plan that is expected to lead to around 2,000 new jobs by early 2020. The size of the investment was not disclosed, but it appears to be substantial. Robert Corbishley,...
The Brazilian cosmetics maker Natura announced Wednesday that it is buying Avon Products in an all-stock deal that it valued at US$3.7 billion, in a move that would create the world’s fourth-largest group of beauty products. Shareholders of both...
Over the span of two years, a Chinese national in Oregon sent devices that looked like iPhones to Apple, saying they wouldn’t turn on and should be replaced under warranty. He didn’t just submit a couple of the devices -- he delivered in person or...
A federal judge in the United States has ruled that Qualcomm unlawfully squeezed out cell phone chip rivals and charged excessive royalties to manufacturers such as Apple in a decision that undercuts a key part of its business. The decision...
She’s the niece of former Governor General Sir Howard Cooke, a former journalist and, at one time, a manager in charge of corporate affairs, customer service, client and government relations at several locations for power utility Jamaica Public...
The mining and quarrying industry contributed the lion’s share of the 1.9 per cent expansion in the Jamaican economy during fiscal year 2018-19, having growth by 28.5 per cent, driven mainly by production at the Alpart alumina plant in St Elizabeth...
Last year, General Accident decided to let its hair down with a new promotional campaign, and the general insurer is still reaping gains from it. The first signs of the campaign’s impact showed up in the company’s year-end results for 2018, when...
Jamaicans were willing to shell out more than $14 billion, or nearly three times the targeted equity capital, for shares in the Caribbean’s largest wind energy company Wigton Windfarm Limited, which listed on Wednesday on the main market of the...
Palace Amusement is returning to Portmore at a time when the community has matured into its own economic centre, says the cinema company’s marketing manager, Melanie Graham. The movie theatre that Palace operated there more than a decade was...
