Business

More than 6,000 acres of land have been leased for agricultural production in the country’s agro parks and production zones by the Agro-Investment Corporation. According to figures supplied to the Financial Gleaner by Agro-Invest, more than 900...

Suriname’s state-owned oil and energy company, Staatsolie, has confirmed that the American oil and gas company Hess Corporation has decided to relinquish its interest in Block 59 offshore Suriname. “Hess has fulfilled its minimum-work obligations...

Consumer and business confidence rose in the second quarter of 2025, even as business leaders expressed uncertainty about the United States market. The consumer confidence index rose 1.4 per cent to 186.3 points in the second-quarter 2025 compared...

Studies show that 80 per cent of victims of ransomware will receive another attack, according to a specialist in the field of cybersecurity based in Trinidad and Tobago. But David Green, Managing Director of CYPFER, a global cybersecurity and...

Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn is calling on financial institutions in the Caribbean to establish an organisation and fraud-alert systems to address the problem of cybercrime on a regional level, which she says is fleecing the...

Tesla has scheduled an annual shareholders meeting for November, one day after the electric vehicle company came under pressure from major shareholders to do so. Billionaire Elon Musk’s company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that the...

President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge to boost import taxes by 50 per cent over the South American country’s...

Is a defined benefit pension fund or a superannuation fund an irrevocable trust? A superannuation fund and an irrevocable trust are set up for different purposes and have some similarities, but are different due largely to the legal framework and...

Jamaica’s Fair Trading Commission, FTC, is recommending “urgent reform” for the credit bureau sector, inclusive of credit information. “Mandate reciprocal data-exchange contracts,” the FTC urged in its now completed report the credit bureau system...

Some farmers and processors are raising concerns about data ownership, the exposure of trade secrets, and costs associated with the phased start of a blockchain traceability platform by the commodities regulator, which aims to protect Jamaica’s...

Italian confectioner Ferrero, known for brands like Nutella and Kinder, is buying the century-old American cereal company WK Kellogg in an effort to expand its North American sales. The Ferrero Group said Thursday it will pay US$23 for each Kellogg...