The Financial Services Commission (FSC) announced Tuesday that it has curtailed the activities of Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL), whose managers must now reach out to the regulator for permission to execute...
Schoelcher, Martinique:Visitor arrivals to the Caribbean remain flat, despite 15.6 million tourists visiting the region between January and July this year, says chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)...
I think Jamaica needs a plan to accelerate its growth so that the requirements of a growing population may be supported. To engage the plan, we need to ensure that four basic tenets are in place:
I think the Government needs to commit itself to facilitating greater economic security, opportunity and prosperity by eliminating bureaucracy, implementing a tax code that helps to create jobs and reduce our debt burden, and widening the middle class.
US Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh last Friday said Caribbean governments had refused to back away from plans to take ongoing rum dispute before the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The question-answer format that has been a feature of this column since its inception in 1997 — which I am not too scared now to admit was patterned off the very popular The Sunday Gleaner Outlook Magazine's sexual advice column — will be abandoned today.
Thirty years ago this coming week, American and Caribbean forces landed in Grenada. Depending on one's point of view, it was a rescue mission to restore democracy and civil rights, an illegal invasion of a sovereign Caribbean nation, or possibly both.
GraceKennedy subsidiary Hardware & Lumber Limited has announced plans to cease participation in the group's defined benefits pension plan, offering in its place enrolment in a newer defined contribution (DC) plan also offered by the parent company.
Our own experiences in Jamaica illustrate why financial literacy is gaining acceptance globally as a core skill for operating in the financial environment.
It's always a pleasure to read your articles and your advice to various people about small businesses. I am a chartered accountant and would like to start a bearer business. I would welcome any advice you have to go about this. I also need to know the best way I should go about getting customers, etc.
Jamaican businesses and government agencies could be at increased risk of attack should cyber terrorists move away from the United States into small states, according to a security expert.
EWI today posted its bid security as a condition of its selection as the preferred bidder in the base load generating capacity 360 megawatt power plant project
The three preferred bidders selected to supply 78 megawatts of renewable energy to the national grid have met the October 15 deadline to submit their bid security
Risk-management training delivered by the World Bank has assisted in sensitising the group to the need for diversified markets given the price volatility of coffee, says the Coffee Industry Board (CIB).Coffee producers were advised that they could hedge...
Supreme Ventures Limited is set to introduce new state-of-the-art terminals to its distribution network by year end aimed at improving the company's sports betting capabilities.An initial 125 GT1200 Altura terminals and...
Political leaders, investors and ordinary people on Thursday welcomed the end of a US government shutdown but already were looking ahead to the next round of a budget battle that brought the world's biggest economy close to default and threatens...
The government of Puerto Rico denied Tuesday that it is near bankruptcy or might need United States federal intervention, offering those assurances during a conference call with investors aimed at alleviating concerns about a recent cut in planned bond...
McKenzie changes gearSam McKenzie is the new general manager of ATL Automotive, a promotion from his former position as dealer principal for ATL Motors.McKenzie began his ATL career at the company's western office where he served for a year.Bruce...
Gold is logging its biggest gain in a month as investors turn their focus back to the economic outlook after Washington reached a deal to avoid a US default and end a 16-day government shutdown.Investors judge that the shutdown and the accompanying...
Many small businesses and individuals are feeling the late-payment pain, and large businesses are putting on the pressure by dragging out payment dates.The fact that many hundreds of Jamaicans have lost their jobs in recent weeks...
