Business

The Consumer Affairs Commission, CAC, recovered $17.21 million as compensation for aggrieved customers from 971 complaints for the period April to November, 2024, according to the Jamaica Information Service. By protecting consumers from financial...

Blue Power Group Limited, a manufacturer of cake and bar soaps, is preparing to enter the market for liquid soaps within the next two years. “Our end goal is to expand beyond just bar soaps. Our team is on the ground gathering all the consumer data...

GraceKennedy Limited has posted mixed results for the nine months ended September. While revenues climbed, profits faltered – and Hurricane Melissa has added a new layer of complexity and may further brunt the food and financial services...

Seprod Limited delivered another quarter of robust revenue growth, buoyed by its regional acquisitions and expanded distribution footprint. However, the gains at the top line have not translated into commensurate improvements in profitability, as...

Britain’s centre-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative Wednesday with a tax-raising budget that it hopes will boost economic growth, reduce child poverty and ease cost-of-living pressures. But the budget’s contents were...

China’s Alibaba Group posted a 34 per cent jump in revenue from its cloud business in its most recent quarter, buoyed by the boom in artificial intelligence. But overall revenue at the Chinese tech group for the July-September quarter increased by...

On October 28, Jamaica witnessed a once-in-a-generation storm, a Category 5 hurricane, the largest to make landfall on the island since Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, and we are just beginning to understand the depth of the damage and the effort it...

VM Investments Limited has produced its best results in the third quarter, after two periods of losses, year-to-date, but is uncertain what the next period will bring as it assesses the operational and economic fallout of Hurricane Melissa. “...

Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin on Friday hailed US President Donald Trump’s order to remove the additional import tariffs on some agribusiness products as “significant progress”, but said the country will keep pushing for more exemptions...

More swings hit Wall Street on Friday, except the US stock market finished higher this time. After bobbing up and down through the morning, the S...

President Donald Trump is considering pressuring states to stop regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in a draft executive order obtained by The Associated Press. Some in Congress are also weighing whether to temporarily block states from...

Imagine your fellow executives adopting a dangerous belief: people only perform when threatened by a crisis like Hurricane Melissa. This point of view sounds plausible, but it worries you. On the positive side, Jamaica’s recent tragedy brought out...