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The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) and its project partners are seeking funding from export credit agencies and development financing agencies to conclude financing arrangements for its 360 megawatt LNG-fired plant.

My friend owns a Toyota Coaster. It has a rural stage carriage licence. One company insured it for over five years. In May last year, that company advised him that they would only be offering coverage to PPVs with contract carriage licences. The risks posed by rural stage carriage operators, they said, were too high.

A major challenge for developers in search of property for low- income homes will be finding land in zones where buyers in the income category - most likely employed in the island's urban centres - are willing to live.

We Jamaicans love nothing more than seeing a raw, untrained underdog use home-grown methods to defeat a famous, stuck-up sophisticate. It's true in many competitive arenas such as football, music and business, to name a few.

A WHOOPING US$3.83 billion and 6,000 jobs is how much citrus greening infestation has cost the American state of Florida since the disease was detected there in 2003-2004.

SIXTY-SIX-year-old Tensil Dias of John's Pen in Redwood, north-east St Catherine, is a fervent livestock farmer.She started out more than 19 years ago with 125 chickens. She later added pigs, cows, and goats to her stock. The vivacious senior outlined how they used the income generated from farming to educate their nine children.

Texas tycoon Allen Stanford, who was convicted this week of masterminding a massive US$7 billion Ponzi scheme, must forfeit all funds seized by the US government

Pan Caribbean Sugar Company (PCSC) has started to import fertiliser from China for its own use, denying business to local manufacturer Newport Fersan Jamaica which had been banking on the estates to drive up...

The government and the World Bank will attempt to offer a bond to the Jamaican diaspora by Independence Day in order to tap into the US$5.4 billion ($470 billion) annual savings of that group. The development bond would...

The Editor, Sir:Please allow me space in your publication to clarify certain points which were made in an article published on the front page of the Business section of The Gleaner, dated March 7, 2012...

The following is a statement by The Private Sector Working Group on Tax Reform (PSWG) issued, it said, in response to the discussion generated in the media regarding the measures proposed...

The National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) has launched a mortgage product offered at a new low price of 9.5 per cent. It comes with an introductory cashback incentive of J$200,000 if mortgage applications reach the bank by...