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Milton Samuda, the president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), and Professor Rosalea Hamilton, president of the MSME Alliance, have identified the items at the top of their lists of impediments to doing business in Jamaica.

WESTERN BUREAU: Caribbean hoteliers are threatening legal action against European tour operator, Thomas Cook, if the company goes ahead with a five per cent reduction in payment of August and September arrival invoices.

Following its 72nd annual conference last week, the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) will today head to St Ann where its National Executive Council (NEC) will select an 11-member executive to lead the party's affairs.Robert Pickersgill, the...

Britain's opposition Labour Party yesterday elected 40-year-old lawmaker Ed Miliband as its new leader.The young Miliband narrowly defeated his elder and better-known brother in a close-run contest to replace ousted prime minister Gordon Brown.

Thirty-four-year-old Rikers Island guard Garina Fearon wore a US$54-million smile on Thursday. Fearon, Jamaican-born, wrote a rags-to-riches tale when she won the equlavent of J$4.6 billion in last week's Mega Millions lotto drawing in New York.

The Ministry of Health has banned the sale of the popular Similac brand of powdered infant formula after the United States (US) manufacturers announced a voluntary recall.

Anxiety was fever pitch in Buju Banton's old neighbourhood of Victoria Park yesterday where family and friends awaited a verdict in the singjay's trial for drug possession.

Lawyers representing Manley Bowen, the elector who brought the dual-citizenship case against Member of Parliament Shahine Robinson, have applied for indemnity costs to be awarded against her. Indemnity costs are usually...

Life is full of mysteries. Like, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or, what's the meaning of life? One mystery that has been nagging the people of Red Light district in rural St Andrew for decades, is how the area got its name...

WESTERN BUREAU: It is now official. Santa Cruz-based businessman Wilfred Gifford Nembhard is the custos of St Elizabeth. Nembhard took the oath of office during an installation ceremony held at Independence Park in Black River yesterday.

The potential potency of the newest advocacy group, represented by a wide cross section of powerful organisations, was highlighted yesterday as members vowed that they would not be another high-profile talk shop....

David Smith, the head of the failed multimillion-dollar foreign-exchange trading club, Olint Investment, started serving a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence in the Turks and Caicos Islands...