Business

With the Trump administration imposing “insane” tariffs on the rest of the world, many commentators are worried about the problem of “sane-washing”: imputing cogent rationales to policies that have none. Such naive punditry, they argue, distracts...

The owners of what was once Pennsylvania’s biggest coal-fired power plant said on Wednesday that they will turn it into a US$10-billion natural gas-powered data centre campus designed to capitali3e on the fast-growing energy demands of Big Tech...

If you have ever bought a pair of jeans from an American brand like Levi’s or Wrangler, chances are they were manufactured at a factory in the small southern African nation of Lesotho. Textile manufacturing is one of Lesotho’s key industries,...

Investors who see themselves as conservative consider bonds to be the ideal securities, but investors who have a greater appetite for risk also find them useful in building balanced portfolios. Although not risk-free, bonds appeal to investors who...

Despite steady growth in exports of yam over several years, stakeholders in the agricultural sector say the once humble tuber can earn even more than the US$40 million it did from exports from Jamaica in 2023. However, a shortage of workers for...

In August 1914, Europeans saw little value in the century of peace that had followed Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo. As historian Barbara W. Tuchman recounted in her 1962 book The Guns of August, public sentiment in Berlin, Paris, London, and Vienna...

In the nearly eighteen months since Dwaine Williams has been leading Jamaica’s largest paint manufacturer, Berger, as its top boss, the marketing and distribution specialist has been resetting the business and recolouring its bottom line. Coming...

The directors of Key Insurance Company Limited have endorsed an offer from the company’s largest shareholder GraceKennedy Financial Group Limited to acquire 100 per cent of the Key’s shares. The buy up of minority holdings, if successful, would...

The abrupt announcement rattled members of the little-known International Seabed Authority, a UN agency based in Jamaica that has protected international deep-sea waters for more than 30 years. The Metals Company in Vancouver, Canada, said late...

JN Bank UK has accumulated more than £43 million in losses over five years, according to UK Companies House filings. The bank, which launched into business in late 2020, during the advent year of the pandemic, was sold last year to Step One Money...

The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is often credited with saying, “I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig”. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. Such is South Africa’s dilemma in dealing with US President Donald Trump’s...

Jamaica’s largest poultry company, Jamaica Broilers Group Limited, racked up more than $1 billion in losses for the January third quarter, the first loss in company’s nearly seven decades of operation. JBG President and CEO Christopher Levy said...