In a low job market, uneducated, unskilled youths who reside in stigmatised communities, such as Denham Town, Rose Town, Trench Town, August Town, Cave Valley, New Haven and Waterhouse, have little chance of finding employment and often...
The RISE Life Management Services has been further strengthened following the recent signing of a funding agreement with the Jamaica National Building Society Foundation......
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Two tech companies have launched rival ventures to build Android tablets in Haiti, a country with little recent experience in electronics manufacturing.
More than one million Americans are bracing for a harrowing, post-Christmas jolt as extended federal unemployment benefits come to a sudden halt this weekend, entailing potentially significant implications for the recovering United States (US) economy.
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Reel Rock GSW Animation Limited, a Jamaican animation company, has announced that it will be co-producing a cartoon series aired on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia.
Global markets surged Friday as a year-end rally continued on good news for stocks out of Japan and China, and the afterglow of a report that showed United States unemployment benefit claims are falling.
The two millionth stopover visitor for 2013 is expected to arrive in Montego Bay, St James, today on an American Airlines flight coming out of Miami, United States.
Entrepreneurship was one of the hottest buzz words for 2013. From political and business leaders to the ordinary man on the street, everyone seems to be singing from the same enterprise hymn book that mobilising our people to start and grow businesses is the key to alleviating the country's high unemployment, anaemic economic growth and debilitating debt crisis.
Telecommunications provider Digicel is to purchase a submarine fibre network of 2,100 kilometres to extend between its markets of the French island of Guadeloupe and Trinidad.
Jamaica rates very poorly both internationally and regionally on broadband penetration for both mobile and fixed Internet access, according to a recent international study.
Twenty years have passed since Parliament established the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) in 1993 with the primary objective of positioning competition as the driving force behind economic activity in Jamaica. In the current fiscal year, approximately $73.5 million of scarce public resources have been approved to fund the FTC.
Dominica, one of the Caribbean islands battered by a slow-moving low-level trough that brought death and destruction to St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, said Thursday it was prepared to assist its fellow Organisation of Eastern Caribbean...
The new business registration form or super form comes into effect on January 2, 2014 to replace the old system whereby individuals visit multiple government agencies to incorporate a company or register a business name.The multipurpose registration...
Thousands of stakeholders in the Empire State Building lost more than $400 million in potential profits when the managing owners rebuffed potential buyers in order to sell public shares in the iconic skyscraper, a new lawsuit says.By spurning all-cash...
The Portia Simpson Miller-led administration on Tuesday passed a resolution for the removal of duty from several items when imported by owners and operators of hotels and guest houses.The exempt items include communication equipment, electric cooking...
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 42,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 338,000, the biggest drop since November 2012.
Oil prices edged up above $99 Thursday, the first trading day after Christmas, as violence in South Sudan stoked concerns about the country's oil production.Benchmark US oil for February delivery was up 17 cents to $99.39 a barrel in electronic trading...
Stocks moved higher in midday trading Thursday as Wall Street went back to work after the Christmas holiday.The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, a benchmark for many kinds of loans, crossed above the psychologically important three per cent mark.
Spain's finance minister has told a business newspaper that the government plans to cut income taxes for low-income Spanish families in 2014, but that citizens in higher-income brackets...
Successful stock investors followed some simple advice this year: Don't worry, be happy.Next year, though, they will need to temper that rosy approach.In 2013, investors who blocked out the scary headlines about a possible government default, budget...
