Through a flurry of executive orders, US President Donald Trump has spent his first weeks in office trying to dismantle the international order that the United States helped create after World War II. Under the banner of ‘America First’, his...
The names of the funds of collective investment schemes like unit trusts and mutual funds would suggest that funds having the same name, such as money market or equity, are exactly alike and can be compared fairly, but wide variations in their...
Spurred by the need for cash to back continuing expansion and wanting to change its debt profile, petroleum marketing company Future Energy Source Company Limited, which trades as Fesco, retired $700 million in bonds, three years ahead of schedule...
The American economy grew at a solid 2.3 per cent annual rate the last three months of 2024, supported by a burst of year-end consumer spending, the government said, leaving unchanged its initial estimate of fourth-quarter growth. The outlook for...
The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency publicly known, seizing some US$1.5 billion worth of ethereum from a Dubai-based firm. The theft earlier this month targeting Bybit, one of...
The European Union on Thursday pushed back hard against allegations by US President Donald Trump that the 27-nation bloc was out to get the United States, and warned that it would vigorously fight any wholesale tariff of 25 per cent on all EU...
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has dropped several enforcement actions against companies like Capital One and Rocket Homes, just weeks under new leadership and turmoil at the agency caused by orders from Trump administration. The notices of...
President of the United States Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the US mining industry’s biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper. From talk of acquiring Greenland and its vast mineral...
Justice David Batts, citing Michael Manley’s Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery, wrote that at the time of Jamaica’s Independence “some 40 per cent of Jamaicans were functionally illiterate”. The high court judge, who was describing the history and...
Donald Trump’s first weeks in office present the biggest distraction chief executives have ever witnessed. Apart from daily news explosions, there are material threats to their businesses. But is there a way for you to transcend continuous...
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Marine park operator Dolphin Cove Limited says it is business as usual, even as the company that owns World of Dolphins (Barbados) is set to go through corporate restructuring and insolvency procedures. Dolphin Cove Jamaica features five dolphin...
A permit issued by the United States government allowing energy giant Chevron Corp to pump and export Venezuelan oil will be terminated this week, ending what became a financial lifeline for the South American country. The announcement by US...
We often take the ability to prove our identity for granted, but a government-issued ID is key to accessing essential services like healthcare, banking, and registering property ownership. And not everyone has one. That is why the United Nations...
Competition regulator Fair Trading Commission, FTC, is assessing whether travellers are benefiting from price competition at Jamaica’s two major international airports, both managed by Mexico-based Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, GAP, which...
There are no plans for rationalisation of the branch network just yet, as the new Infiniti Co-operative Credit Union Jamaica Limited, the product of a merger between EduCom and Gateway credit unions, gets settled, according to its new head. Camille...
Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a United States immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries. Venezuelans from Guantanamo Bay handed...
British energy company BP confirmed Wednesday that it would slash spending on green ventures and increase its oil and gas production, a change in direction that it hopes will bolster its flagging share price but has been met with incredulity from...
Some 20,000 workers in the manufacturing and export sector are being provided with an opportunity to obtain life and health insurance at preferential rates as well as knowledge about wealth creation from financial giant Sagicor Group Jamaica...
The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal gives the government an increasing share of diamond sales through the...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM
Apple shareholders rebuffed an attempt to pressure the technology trendsetter into joining the push to scrub corporate programmes designed to diversify its workforce. The proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research – a self-...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:08 AM
The United Nations has declared 2025 to be the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, making it a fitting moment to confront the stark reality that the world’s ice sheets are melting. Climate change is accelerating this trend, particularly...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:06 AM
Bank of Jamaica Governor Richard Byles views the current dip in economic output as transitory, amid signs of two consecutive quarters of decline. The Jamaican economy contracted by 3.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2024 and Planning Institute of...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:06 AM
PepsiCo confirmed Friday that it’s ending some of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, even as rival Coca-Cola voiced support for its own inclusion efforts. In a memo sent to employees, PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta said the company will...
Published:Wednesday | February 26, 2025 | 12:06 AM
Woven City near Mount Fuji is where Japanese automaker Toyota plans to test everyday living with robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous zero-emissions transportation. Daisuke Toyoda, an executive in charge of the project from the...
