Has the time come to give greater consideration to the opportunity presented by what might be described as the space in-between: the millions of square miles of ocean and seabed that lie between the islands and countries of the Caribbean?
Appliance Traders Limited has created a new division in the company as it steps up plans to corner a larger market share in the alternative energy sector in which just 25 discrete companies operate.
Less than a decade ago, Colombia was on the verge of collapse. A civil war that was going on to its fifth decade had descended into the crudest form of barbarism. Indiscriminate bombings terrorised the population...
Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers: The Story of Success' provides a convenient starting point to discuss interactions among status by ascription - read colour in Jamaica - inequality, corruption, anaemic rates of return on capital and arrested economic...
National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jamaica has closed its Newport West branch in continuation of its programme to consolidate the network.Newport West ceased operating at the end of March...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging the US Federal Reserve and other central banks to closely monitor their extraordinary efforts to jump-start economic growth, warning that the policies could inflate asset bubbles and destabilise financial...
Thought you should know ... A flood of cash in the foreign-exchange market since April 2 has kept the Jamaican dollar trading below the psychological J$100 mark.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has suggested that Jamaica and other countries in the hemisphere review their pension fund rules to drive investment in public infrastructure projects."Countries will have to intensify their efforts to attract...
Christopher Clarke, the majority owner and CEO of Caribbean Cream Limited (CCL), will give up one-fifth of his shareholdings in the ice cream company under the initial public offering (IPO) aimed at selling more than 75.7 million of shares to stock...
Jamaica's debt-servicing costs have been cut by 31 per cent this fiscal year and will soak up 43 per cent of the national Budget.It creates room for the Government in a period of economic hardship to allocate "badly needed financial resources" to social...
THERE ARE two very pertinent constraints on our economic growth for the past 30 to 40 years.The first is that we have borrowed far too much money that we could not and cannot afford, and we have wasted a great deal of the cash. The second is that we have...
Columbus Communications will invest US$60 million to provide telecoms services in Barbados, according to the firm's president and chief executive, John Reid. "Columbus will invest in excess of BDS$120 million...
Investment firm Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) has added term life insurance to its portfolio of products in partnership with Caribbean Assurance Brokers Limited."What we have found is that customers want...
EVEN AS Jamaica struggles with a growing food import bill projected to go past US$1 billion for 2012, representatives from Caribbean neighbours The Bahamas are in the island looking to copy our good agricultural practices, looking at ways to improve...
THE RURAL Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), at the start of national Farmers' Month April 2013, launched its newly developed strategy of increasing the data-collection capacity of its extension officers to serve farmers more efficiently ...
LENWORTH FULTON, executive director of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, will take over the reins of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) with effect from Wednesday, May 1.He succeeds Harold Spaulding who was confirmed in the position in January...
The city of Reno in Nevada lost more than $100,000 last year from scrap-metal thefts - and it wasn't alone.Cities across Nevada detailed similar problems on Wednesday to lawmakers considering a bill to increase penalties for such crimes....
Europe's auto market is in freefall. Once the motor for Europe's economy, the car industry has fallen victim to the region's widening recession and soaring unemployment.
AS THE main ingredient in rice and peas, stewed peas or peas soup, the legume known as the kidney bean has held sway in most Jamaican households for decades, where it is prepared in one form or the other at least once...
