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At the top of the list of measures to be agreed at the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, is the new collective quantified goal on climate finance, which will support climate action in developing countries after...

Investment outfit GK Capital Management Limited is touting a new frontier called alpha investing. Managing Director Kareem Tomlinson says the company is introducing a business model that will allow investors to chart a way forward with greater...

Spirit Airlines said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel, stiffer competition from bigger carriers, and a failed attempt to sell the...

A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices – and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife – was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein...

An expanded system for assessing the quality craft items being produced for export is currently being developed by the Jamaica Business Development Corporation, and if successful could result in millions of dollars in foreign exchange for players...

Jamaica experienced two back-to-back seismic events last Sunday. The first, which occurred at 10:50 a.m., was measured at magnitude 5.6. The second followed an hour later. It was stronger; its magnitude was 6.5. Both earthquakes were felt across...

Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration. The US Environmental Protection Agency rule...

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to get – even as countries gather for another round of talks to curb warming, according to an analysis Thursday. At the United...

Good or bad, the United Nations climate negotiations process itself became the focus of the international talks that aim to curb warming from coal, oil, and natural gas. Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel industry...

A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark ruling that ordered energy company Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019 levels, while saying that “protection against dangerous climate change is a...

With its revenue and profits up in 2024, so far, online shopping and logistics company Mailpac Group Limited says it is improving its customer service and sprucing up its locations while remaining open to acquisitions, both in Jamaica and foreign...

The ocean is our greatest natural resource. It provides half the planet’s oxygen, helps to feed half the world’s people, and, as the world’s largest carbon sink, is one of our best defences against climate change. But it is under attack like never...