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Tractors are parked during a protest, near the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris, Friday, March 1, 2024.

The European Union’s executive arm proposed weakening even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of concessions to farmers apparently bent on continuing disruptive tractor protests until the June EU elections. Angering...

Experts in accounting and economics have lauded Jamaica’s seventh straight budget without new taxes as a plus amid the country’s push for economic expansion. Experts in accounting and economics have lauded Jamaica’s seventh straight national budget...

Large hotel chain Iberostar has installed a 1.2 megawatt solar power plant in Jamaica as part of the wider group’s move to slash its carbon emissions. The group of Spanish origin plans to become carbon neutral by 2030 or 20 years prior to global...

The United States is spearheading the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring that the new technology is “safe, secure, and trustworthy” and that all countries, especially those in the developing world, have...

European Union regulators on Thursday ratcheted up scrutiny of big tech companies, including Google, Facebook, and TikTok with requests for information on how they are dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence such as the viral...

United States President Joe Biden came out in opposition to the planned sale of US Steel to Nippon Steel of Japan, saying on Thursday that the US needs to “maintain strong American steel companies powered by American steel workers”. In a statement...

Market reaction to the increase in the amount of share capital that junior company can raise and hold has been positive, but up to early Thursday, but the Jamaica Stock Exchange itself is yet to weigh in. The cap will rise to $750 million, from $...

The Government of Jamaica will consider hiring real estate brokers to speed up the disposal of $1.5 billion in confiscated properties as a quick solution to avoid a downgrade by international anti-money laundering watchdogs. The sale of the...

After about a decade of operation at its Bell Road base in Kingston, Jamaican Teas Limited has found a buyer for the 22,000-square-foot factory, which it is vacating for new premises. The maker of Tetley and Caribbean Dream teas said in a market...

Britain’s high court ruled on Thursday that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Craig Wright has for eight years claimed that he was the man behind ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, the...
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