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Lawyers will continue submissions in the Supreme Court tomorrow in an action brought by Digicel Jamaica challenging the jurisdiction of the FTC in its attempt to roll back the Digicel-Claro deal.

CariCRIS has reaffirmed the creditworthiness of Sagicor Life Jamaica.

The Kingston Wharves Group has blamed the weak state of the economy as well as the high cost of electricity for a 47.3 per cent downturn in after tax profit.

Britain has ordered an unidentified bank to pay half a billion pounds (US$800 million) in unpaid tax that it avoided by exploiting now-closed loopholes, a government minister said Monday. Exchequer Secretary David Gauke said that the bank had operated...

The weighted average selling rate of the US dollar to the Jamaican dollar inched closer to the J$87 mark at the close of trade today.

A prosecutor has told jurors at Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's fraud trial that computer hard drives belonging to the outside auditor for Stanford's Caribbean bank apparently were erased after the auditor died.

Up to now Europe has promoted the idea that the trading of permits to emit carbon is the best way to cap greenhouse gas emissions by aircraft and maritime transport.

Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited will pay farmers who supply the plant a final price of J$3,091 per box of coffee cherry, according to managing director Senator Norman Grant.

Oil prices are approaching last year's highs as tensions increase over Iran's nuclear programme.

Jamaicans are less tetchy about the treatment meted out to them by insurers of their homes and autos, but they remain peeved at the people who handle their pensions and investments, according to the most recent data.

Recently, I had a revelation: today's businesses need to aggressively drive down their prices in order to stay competitive.

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