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Angela Huyue Zhang
December 9, 2025

Angela Huyue Zhang | A TikTok deal China will love

After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, president of the United States, Donald Trump, has now signed an executive order transferring the…
Thriller novelist Andrea Bartz is photographed in her home, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, September 4, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Authors triumph in copyright case against AI company

A federal judge on Thursday approved a US$1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to…
Business
December 9, 2025

UN blacklists another 68 companies over Israeli settlements

The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli…
Business
December 9, 2025 by Steven Jackson

National Rums get temporary relief in industry fight

Rum makers will return to court next February to battle over the definition of Jamaican rum, following a Supreme Court ruling that gives National Rums of Jamaica Limited, NRJ, temporary relief. On…
Business
December 9, 2025

Fesco to add four more gas stations to network

Future Sources Energy Company Limited, which trades as Fesco, will add at least four new service stations to the network by December 2026. The investment will range from $700 million to $1 billion and…
Business
December 9, 2025

R.A. Williams positioned to reverse contraction of profits, says CEO

R.A. Williams Distributors Limited expects that the investments made as groundwork for growth will soon start paying off in the form of returns and market share, in an assurance to shareholders that…
The headquarters of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, Harbour Street, Kingston.
December 9, 2025

Oran Hall | The far-reaching effects of a weak stock market

Ordinary shares can be relied upon to yield very positive returns to investors over the long term, but, because stock markets are cyclical, there are periods when equities do not give positive returns…
Business
December 9, 2025

Cedric Stephens | A new conversation on insurance

Concerned citizen John Mahfood put his money where his mouth is. He sponsored a half-page advertorial in this newspaper last Sunday to pose and answer a thought-provoking question: Can the Jamaican…
Business
December 9, 2025

Al Gore’s satellite and AI system now tracking sources of deadly soot pollution

Soon people will be able to use satellite technology and artificial intelligence to track dangerous soot pollution in their neighbourhoods – and where it comes from – in a way not so different from…