The Wisynco Group came out on top at the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association's (JMA) annual awards banquet last Thursday, winning the prestigious Governor General's Trophy for manufacturer of the year.
Jamaican resort marketing group Island Outpost has joined with Magellan Jets to bring visitors to the GoldenEye and Strawberry Hill hospitality properties for what the Jamaican company describes as the "ultimate Bond adventure experience".
Businessman Claude Clarke, in defence of Jamaican manufacturing, said last Thursday that Jamaica should suspend the Common External Tariff, no matter the legal consequences.
Marley Coffee announced via press release last week that it is about to release a new coffee blend that includes one-fifth Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee (JBM), calling it a first for North America.
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Jamaica's largest bank is also one of the top providers of education savings options, whose portfolio up to last year was valued at close to J$23 billion.
John Mahfood, chief executive officer of Jamaican Teas Limited, says current economic conditions have forced his hand to use debt, rather than equity, to raise monies to fund the company's housing project in St Thomas and refinance higher-cost debt on...
Haute Hippie, the New York-based clothing designer, has shelved plans to open a retail outlet at the GoldenEye resort on the north coast, a spokeswoman for the company said on Monday.
Marlene Street-Forrest, general manager of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, says three overseas companies have indicated interest in listing on the junior exchange and that the float of shares could occur next year.
The Jamaican Govern-ment is proposing to zero-rate import duties on essential inputs for domestic producers, the retention of which manufacturers have long identified as a barrier to the competitiveness of local products in the domestic and export markets.
Access Financial Services, the pioneer stock on the Jamaica junior stock exchange, is again tapping the market for capital, but this time has opted to raise debt via a short-term corporate bond.
The World Bank has tentatively floated the possibility of banking sectors in affected jurisdictions 'stepping in' to assist or fill the gap in circumstances where the overseas accounts of money-services companies are being closed by foreign banks, according to a new migration and development brief on remittance trends published Wednesday.
Bewildering! That's a friend's summary comment on the little-understood government shutdown that occurred simultaneously with opening of health insurance exchanges on October 1 in accordance with the Affordable Care Act - dubbed 'Obamacare' by Republicans.
Money that migrant workers send back home is far more valuable to developing countries than foreign aid and is expected to grow 6.3 per cent this year, a new World Bank study said on Wednesday.
A hidden website operated by a San Francisco man became a vast black-market bazaar that brokered more than US$1 billion in transactions for illegal drugs and services, according to court papers made public on Wednesday.
The St Lucia government says Taiwan is funding a project to reduce energy consumption in the public sector through the installation of energy-efficient lighting in public buildings.
Top European officials are keeping a worried eye on the United States (US) government shutdown, saying it could pose a risk for the continent's fledgling recovery.
Sales fell at General Motors (GM), Toyota, and Volkswagen in September, an odd month that appears likely to snap a 27-month streak of gains for the United States (US) auto industry.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said a short delay in submitting to the Jamaican Parliament a new law on tax incentives should not postpone its enactment, even as it calls for an effective fiscal rule to lock in the gains from fiscal adjustment so far.
