Business

The Tourism Enhancement Fund, TEF, wants consultants to develop a mobile app showcasing top investment locations in Jamaica to spur investments by locals and foreigners. “The average Jamaican may be unaware of how valuable their physical assets are...

President of the United States Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most US coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling. Biden, whose term...

Indonesia has been admitted as a full member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, the group’s presiding country, Brazil, announced Monday. Indonesia’s candidacy was endorsed by BRICS leaders in August 2023, according to the foreign ministry...

Will TikTok be banned this month? That’s the pressing question keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision that could upend their livelihoods. The fate of the popular app will be decided by the Supreme Court...

Wall Street snapped out of its holiday-season funk on Friday. The S...

Investigators are trying to determine what caused a mechanical failure that resulted in 20 workers inhaling toxic fumes at a cheese manufacturing plant in eastern New Mexico. The Curry County Sheriff’s Office reported that more than a dozen workers...

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) gained some 3.0 per cent in 2024, pushing the market to a $2.1 trillion valuation. “I expect that the trend, though marginal for 2024, will continue into 2025,” said JSE managing director Dr Marlene Street Forrest...

Tesla posted its first annual sales drop in more than a dozen years on Thursday, undercutting a stock that has soared since Donald Trump’s victory on optimism that Elon Musk’s close relationship to the president-elect will help the company. Tesla’s...

Montenegro on Tuesday extradited a South Korean mogul known as ‘the cryptocurrency king’ to the United States. It follows on a decision from Montenegro’s justice ministry earlier this month to accept a US request, while refusing a South Korean...

Horror author Stephen King’s rock ‘n’ roll radio station is going to continue rocking around the clock and into the new year. Two businessmen purchased WKIT-FM from the best-selling writer after he announced that the station and two others would go...

Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Monday issued a US$10-million fine against TikTok for ‘not implementing measures’ to prevent viral video challenges that have allegedly led to the deaths of three Venezuelan children recently. Judge Tania D’Amelio said...

On the last business day of 2024, the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) has suspended trading in the shares of MFS Capital Partners Limited. CEO Dino Hinds, when contacted, said the company was in the process of replying to the Jamaica Stock Exchange...