Business

Forty countries led by Japan and the European Union – but not the United States or China – have agreed to require new cars and light comm

For the financial year ending December 2018, IronRock Insurance – the newest entrant in a market of nine operating companies – generated a profit of $811,000. By itself that number would be unimpressive. But within its proper context...

Scotia Group Jamaica executive vice-president, Dr Adrian Stokes, whose remit now includes oversight of wealth subsidiary Scotia Investments Jamaica, is stressing client care and services as the path forward for the wealth subsidiary. But he is also...

Newly tabled pension regulations give fund managers more room to invest in a wider range of foreign assets, but leave unresolved the limits on foreign investments set separately by the Financial Services Commission, FSC, and the Bank of Jamaica,...

When Jose Humberto Vivas needs to trade dollars for Venezuelan bolivars, he usually flouts the nation’s rigid exchange controls by turning to illegal currency traders. But last week, Vivas put a few hundred dollars in his wallet and headed to...

Germany’s economy minister said Tuesday he’s confident the country will soon have two terminals capable of receiving shipments of US liquefied natural gas, something Washington has been pressing for in its bid to increase exports to...

William Mahfood, chairman of Wisynco Group Limited, is projecting that the addition of packaged sugar to its line of distributed products will grow sales by 10 per cent. The company began distributing Worthy Park Estate’s branded sugar in...

NCB Financial Group has extended its offer for additional shares in Guardian Holding Limited, GHL, to Valentine’s Day. The extension gives GHL shareholders an extra week to consider selling shares to NCB Financial, which is bidding for the...

COLUMN: FOREIGN POLICY In the years following the Arab Spring, Europe learnt that without prior planning and consideration, large numbers of people fleeing instability can rapidly create political, social and economic tensions in ways that polarise...

Subaru, Tesla, BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler Vans, Mercedes, and Ferrari are recalling about 1.7 million vehicles to replace potentially deadl

With tens of millions of glass bottles in demand annually, the Jamaican government sees a business opportunity just waiting for someone w

ADVISORY COLUMN: INSURANCE HELPLINE QUESTION: I am getting very poor service from my insurance broker. He seldom returns my calls. On the occasions that he does, the responses always begin with apologies and talk about work pressures. These...