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Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:55 AM

Some Canadian diplomats who became mysteriously ill while posted to Cuba are suing the Canadian government.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:55 AM

Jamaica is now ranked sixth in the world for ease of starting a business on the

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:54 AM

The Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, intervened in the market again on Wednesday, the third time during the past week, by selling US$20 million to a

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:54 AM

Attorney Caroline Hay, QC, says while it is evident that the costs of anti-money-laundering compliance far o

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:54 AM

United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he has used his first year as chairman to make sure the central

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:54 AM

Spotify is making a bigger bet on podcasts as it looks to bring a Netflix-like model of original programmes to the audio world.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:53 AM

European Union (EU) officials have slashed their growth forecast for the 19 countries that use the euro, saying even the lower estimate w

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:53 AM

Twitter is reporting that revenue and profit and its daily user base all grew in the final three months of 2018.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:53 AM

When he was younger, the only thing that Enrique Morales knew about marijuana was that you smoked it to get high.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:53 AM

The ‘single estate’ marker, though much sought after as a premium coffee label, is a designation carried by

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:52 AM

Land being cleared for development at 1A-1B Oxford Road in New Kingston, once slated for a boutique hotel, may now be assigned to another

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:52 AM

NCB Financial Group posted a rare decline in net profit for the December quarter, due to a restated one-off gain from an acquisition book

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:52 AM

Port Authority of Jamaica, PAJ, is already promoting Port Royal as a cruise port and has booked at least one

Published:Friday | February 8, 2019 | 11:51 AM

Scotia Investments Jamaica, the wealth arm of banking conglomerate Scotia Group, will lose its fourth top ma

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2019 | 12:00 AM

General Motors posted an US$8.1-billion net profit for 2018, fuelled by better prices for vehicles sold in the United States, its most lucrative market. It’s a strong rebound from the previous year when the company lost US$3.9 billion on a...

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 1:56 PM

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Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaican government is giving $10 million of backing to the inaugural Jamaica Rum Festival, most of which will be spent on setting up an artisan village at the venue, according to Tourism Enhancement Fund head Dr Carey Wallace. The organisers...

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:58 AM

Jamaican rum is well known and sought after internationally.

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:58 AM

A new agency is to be created to undertake the functions of the Fair Trading Commission, FTC, and the Consum

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:58 AM

Power utility Jamaica Public Service Company Limited, JPS, will decommission all its plants that run on heavy fuel oil, HFO, a programme

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:57 AM

With Brexit less than eight weeks away, it’s becoming clear that the British economy is stalling as firms struggle with the uncertainty o

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:56 AM

A federal bankruptcy judge approved a major debt restructuring plan for Puerto Rico on Monday in the first deal of its kind for the US te

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:53 AM

The owners of Technological Solutions Limited, TSL, plan to float shares on the junior market of the Jamaica

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Silva Investment Limited, a foreign firm engaged in multiple businesses, has acquired Torpedo Micro Loan Financing in what it said is a strategic move to get a foothold in Jamaica’s growing financial market. In addition to the fixed assets,...

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2019 | 12:15 AM

A key group of European Union countries endorsed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s i

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