Spanish officials warned Argentina last Friday that the country risks becoming "an international pariah" if it follows through on its threats to wrest control of Spanish-owned energy company Repsol's majority stake in its South American YPF...
The market for mid to upper priced homes valued at $25 million and over is coming back to life, buffered by the mortgage wars that led to home loans falling below 10 per cent.
NEM Insurance Company Limited is to be rebranded as JN General Insurance Company, to align with the brand of parent company Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS)...
IT'S BEEN 20 years since Hartnel McCalla has been operating a shop in his hometown of Sandy Ground in west central St Catherine. The business was established to boost earnings from his farming activities. However, since the passage of Tropical Storm Nicole in September 2010, McCalla's entrepreneurial activities have hit a brick wall.
BEE FARMERS in St Mary are moving beyond the traditional products associated with apiculture such as honey, wax, and pollen and moving well up the value-added chain with a range of items including a tonic, aphrodisiac, medicine, and sandwich spread.
Mobile operator Digicel Jamaica says that about 120 of its local staff or 10 per cent of its workforce could to take-up its 'voluntary separation programme' announced Thursday.
Carib Caribbean Cement Cement Company is advising its customers that out of necessity, the Company has been forced to pack its 42.5 kg Carib Cement Plus product in packaging not familiar to the Jamaican market, but says it is only a short term measure forced on it by industrial action in Trinidad.
First a definition: 'elephant hunt' refers not to out-of-favour big game hunting in Africa.Rather, courtesy of recently resigned Goldman Sachs 12-year veteran Greg Smith, it means "get your clients...
The National Insurance Fund (NIF) has confirmed the interest of lawyer and hotelier Christopher Issa in the purchase of the former Breezes Montego Bay hotel...
As Cartagena's sixth Summit of the Americas revs up, Latin America will join the hemisphere-wide gathering boasting a unique position on the global stage - a stark contrast with the previous gathering in Trinidad and Tobago, almost three years ago.
The Coffee Industry Board (CIB) is considering a replacement insurance scheme for coffee farmers, in the wake of last year's ruling by the Supreme Court that the decade-old trust fund created by the board was not an effective vehicle....
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC), more than three months into the Simpson Miller administration, is still without a board and an appointed general manager.But the prime minister's press secretary said Thursday...
The contract for insurance manager of the regional insurance fund, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), is up for grabs again following the expiration of the contract held by Sagicor Insurance Managers (SIM).CCRIF says on its website...
Derrick Simon, president of Jamaica Coffee Growers Association, has charged that 56,000 kilograms of coffee, amounting to one-fifth of last year's crop, has mysteriously disappeared from inventory...
Just as it appeared that financial markets in Europe were stabilising and that economic growth in the United States was accelerating, some negative factors have come to the fore...
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos faced a dilemma.He was set to take centre stage as host of this weekend's summit of Western Hemisphere leaders in this colonial-era port...
The National Insurance Fund (NIF) has confirmed the interest of lawyer and hotelier Christopher Issa in the purchase of the former Breezes Montego Bay hotel.