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Jamaica ended 2025 with 524,000 fewer passengers, marking the largest annual decline since the pandemic, as Hurricane Melissa battered the island’s tourism sector. “Montego Bay and Kingston recorded decreases ... as a result of disruptions caused...
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West Indies Petroleum Terminal Ltd. (WIPT) stock climbed above $5.60 in Thursday trading, or 11 times its listing price some two weeks earlier, reflecting a rally driven more by scarcity than fundamentals. Since its December 23 debut on the...
Jamaica’s securities dealers are sitting on relatively high levels of cash within a market affected by uncertainty. Cash holdings in local collective investment schemes (CIS) surged 40.2 percent to $18.5 billion in the quarter ended September...
More artificial intelligence (AI) is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarise far-flung information buried in inboxes, and deliver daily...
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes. Trump — who has been under pressure to address...
Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida, USA mother who alleged that a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Attorneys for the two tech companies have also...
California will lose US$160 million for delaying the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licences for immigrants, federal transportation officials announced on Wednesday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy already withheld US$40 million in...
US employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers are not yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up. Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1 million open jobs at the end of November, the...
Crowds flooded the freshly opened showroom floors on Day 2 of CES, which originally stood for the Consumer Electronic Show, and were met by thousands of robots, AI companions, assistants, health longevity technology, wearables, and more. Siemens...
The value of all shares on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) closed 2025 at US$1.98 trillion in market capitalisation, some 5.0 per cent lower than the previous year, as all three major indices registered declines. Investors grappled with relatively...
Barita Investments Limited can proceed in fully acquiring JN Fund Managers Limited (JNFM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Jamaica National Group, according to a release on the matter. “The transaction is expected to increase Barita’s assets under...
Digita Global Marketing (DGM) has opened a $75-million multimedia production space on Mountain View Avenue, Kingston, designed to streamline content creation for businesses and creatives. DGM acquired a 1,000-square-foot facility for about $50...
The food and finance conglomerate GraceKennedy Limited(GK) has codified a governance rule that ensures neither men nor women can hold less than 30 per cent of board seats. The requirement was outlined in its revised governance code released in late...
Annie recently completed her honours MBA with an A- in strategic planning and was promoted to chief marketing officer (CMO). However, just before the holidays, her CEO gave her feedback. “You’re not being strategic enough,” he said, which sent her...
