Costa Rica is worried about a plan to build a canal across neighbouring Nicaragua because it would affect rivers along their shared border, its government said Wednesday.Foreign Minister Enrique Castillo said that even if the canal is built along Lake...
The Washington-based think tank, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), says multilateral lenders could provide greater assistance to Jamaica by cancelling existing debt rather than providing billion of dollars in new loans....
China's Commerce ministry has launched a formal investigation into claims that European Union (EU) countries are selling wine at unfairly low prices, as a prolonged dispute over Chinese solar-power products continues to affect trade relations.The...
The price of oil eased below US$101 a barrel Thursday after jumping higher on unrest in Egypt and signs of rising demand in the United States.By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for August delivery was down 48 cents at US$100.76 in electronic...
Judith Green, who has 25 years of experience in finance, began monitoring the implemen-tation of the new IMF agreement on Monday.Green took up her new job as project director of the new Coordination and Implementation Unit (CIU) in the Ministry of...
Scotiabank Jamaica has won the PSOJ/ Jamaica Customer Service Association's Service Excellence Award for a large organisation, scoring big in leadership strategy and governance, service standards, the existence of a service charter and its deployment...
More than half of the Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association (JUCDA) members are reportedly caught up in the manufacture/ model year mix-up, according to the top spokes-man...
Sagicor Jamaica's newest hotel acquisition, Jewel Paradise Cove Beach Resort & Spa, is undergoing US$5 million (J$500 million) of renovations ahead of its planned reopening in the upcoming winter tourist season....
All Jamaica Airline Services Limited (AJAS) and Transportation Agencies Limited (TAL) have been acquired by a consortium of investors led by G. Raymond Chang Limited, Howard Mitchell, and Barnett Limited. ...
Declaring an end to the 'hiatus' in hotel investments, Tourism Minister Dr Wykeham McNeill outlined several projects that add up to J$15.7 billion of planned and ongoing investments, spanning Kingston to Negril.The new Courtyard Marriott Hotel to be...
It is the season of graduations and no high school is apparently able to avoid what is, for many, a costly exercise.Of course, funerals are always occurring and the poor, who are also always with us, are getting more numerous with the tightening squeeze...
HEART Trust to train ICT workers- The Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ) is projected to grow 25 per cent per annum and that local businesses will need 2,500 to 3,000 workers per year to keep meet demand for ICT services.The sector...
Sagicor Jamaica group has consolidated all resort assets into a newly created real-estate portfolio launched late last year under fund manager Sagicor Sigma Unit...
MBJ Airports Limited has cobbled a deal with World Bank affiliate IFC and FirstCaribbean International Bank for US$15 million of financing for the runway expansion project at Sangster International Airport.
The owners of Jamaica Private Power Company Limited (JPPC) have picked a new leader for the local operation, amid turmoil at the company.Private Power Operators Limited (PPOL) announced Tuesday that insider Ingrid Christian-Baker will take over as...
Mt Nebo Primary School, located in the hills of St Catherine, received two new computers from the Digicel Foundation as part of the foundation's Project 1000.
Citibank was the main sponsor of the third staging of the annual Junior Achievement Company of Entrepreneurs (JACE) Technology and Innovation Conference, held at the Rex Nettleford Hall, University of the West Indies, Mona.
The price of oil rose to its highest level in 14 months on concerns about Middle East supplies and signs of an increase in United States (US) demand for fuel.
The price of cement is set to be increased again in one week, the third time since the start of the year, this time because of the depreciation of the Jamaican dollar against the US dollar.In a notice to the Jamaica Stock Exchange, the Caribbean Cement...
