The Trade Union Federation (TUF) has suffered a major blow in its ongoing battle with the St.Lucia government for increased salaries for public workers after the Police Welfare Association (PWA) accepted the four per cent offer by the Kenny Anthony government.
J.C. Penney Co. confirmed Friday it's eliminating an additional 2,200 jobs as the struggling department store chain slashes costs after a year of plunging sales and mounting losses...
A senior economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) that they face similar challenges now confronting the Eurozone countries...
President and CEO of Sagicor Investments Jamaica Limited Donovan Perkins (left) and CEO of Digicel Jamaica Andy Thorburn sign a memorandum of understanding on March 7, 2013, at Sagicor Life Jamaica's R. Danny Williams Building in New Kingston affirming their partnership with Chain of Hope UK to aid the development of a state-of-the-art cardiac unit at the Bustamante Hospital for Children.
Ken Sylvester, CEO of the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKNET), a new high-capacity fibre optics research and education network, will now connect colleges and universities in 21 regional countries.
The programme will operate under the brand name, C@ribnet.
Thank you for the helpful article you penned on the essential steps to business start-up. I thought you hit the nail on the head on all seven steps, especially the last 'Launching'. I started a small business two years ago and had a website with the hope that by having the website in place, by now I would be in the same league as Michael Lee-Chin or Butch Stewart.
I enjoyed reading your article in The Sunday Gleaner dated March 3, 2013. I am very interested in getting more information on investing in the stock market in Jamaica, I am currently living in North America and am no stranger to the stock market but have never invested in Jamaica. I am not interested in short-term gain and don't want to become a trader.
Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chávez, was one of those figures about whom almost everyone had an opinion. Loved and hated in varying measure across the Americas, his death on March 5 is likely to have a profound effect on the countries of the Caribbean Basin.
The University of the West Indies has rebranded and restructured its three departments of Science in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad as it positions to commercialise its R&D creations.
One of the recurrent themes of J.M.W. Turner's masterpieces is the fury of the distant storm. Through the use of perspective and colour, humans are reduced in size and scope by the blinding force of nature....
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has raised its long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Jamaica to 'CCC+' from selective default following the completion of the government's debt restructuring, the National Debt Exchange...
Digicel Limited has completed a US$1-billion private corporate bond offering, which carry a six per cent coupon rate. The bond matures in year 2021. Just over half the proceeds will pay for the early redemption of the telecom's 12 per cent bonds due...
Time Warner Inc said Wednesday that it will spin off the magazine unit behind Time, Sports Illustrated and People into a separate, publicly traded company by the end of the year, ending a media marriage that has lasted more than two decades....
A PROPER perspective must be developed on economic growth and deficit reduction. Economic growth is far more important than deficits in the short term, especially when economic crisis is the pervasive prevailing danger....
Predictably, Venezuela President Hugo Chávez's passing was greeted with deep sorrow and mourning among supporters but popping firecrackers and jubilation by his detractors.Chávez immersed himself in study of the lives of Simón Bolívar and Che Guevara,...
Strong auto sales, better hiring and a continued housing recovery helped the United States economy grow in January and February throughout the country, according to a survey released Wednesday by the US Federal Reserve....
Janice Holness has now been named as executive director of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), confirming reports of her pick for the job in December.Her appointment takes effect on Monday, March 11...
Sagicor Investments Jamaica Limited is likely to see its capital base erode by about J$600 million. The company, formerly known as Pan Caribbean Financial Services, said this...
America's food and drug regulator has declared one of Jamaica's most iconic companies to be in 'significant violation' of good manufacturing practices codified under US law.The Food and Drug Administration carried...
Real-estate conglomerate Pan-Jamaican Investment Trust Limited increased its annual net profit 10 per cent to J$2.2 billion due to the performance of its associated businesses led by Sagicor Life Jamaica and Chukka Adventures.Pan-Jam's core revenues ...
Funds saved with banks and credit unions earn just above two per cent interest per year, and are unlikely to perform any better over the next three to five years given the current low interest rate policy being pushed by...
