A week or so ago, the Board of the Caribbean Hotels and Tourism Association (CHTA) passed unanimously a resolution calling on Caribbean heads of government to convene a summit on tourism.
Your alarm goes off at 5:45 in the morning, groggy from sleep or sleep deprivation probably, you stumble out of bed. Your first objective of the day is to get the kids up, fed and ready for school.
Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city.
Have you ever cringed as you watched a friend of yours, usually kind and considerate, talk down to his/her helper as if she were less than human? Or have you ever heard someone explain that the gardener has special cutlery that's 'never mixed with regular cutlery' because 'you don't know where he's coming from'?
I would like information as it relates to whether an individual will be able to purchase a two- bedroom house in the western side of the island on a base monthly salary of J$40,000.
STARTED IN 1980, the St Thomas Bee Farmers Association saw its membership fall to 25, and trending down, a situation it brought to the attention of the Local Initiative Facility for the Environment (LIFE). There are now 101 active members and the group is in business mode, gearing up to maximise the economic benefits from bee farming, while preserving the environment.
THE AGRICULTURE ministry is fast-tracking efforts to get exporters and farmers up to speed with the stringent Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA) standards for fresh and processed foods imported into the United States. This is in preparation for a visit by inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the first quarter of the year.
PRESERVING THE family tradition of farming is just what 42-year-old Clive Segree is doing in the hills of Fruitful Vale, Portland, as he struggles to support his two children and a common-law-wife.
Portland Private Equity plans to raise US$300 million (J$28.2b) to finance a series of regional investments.These transactions are slated to occur this year via its Caribbean Fund, according to disclosures by the International Finance Corporation (IFC),...
National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) sold more than US$1 billion of foreign currency to clients in its financial year, volumes that created new market share for the institution, the bank disclosed to shareholders....
Last year, when the Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League (JCCUL) came up with a mobile-banking product to be deployed sectorwide, the agency got steamrolled by the central bank, which told the micro financiers that...
Two top shareholders in National Commercial Bank Jamaica have offered up 13 per cent of their current holdings under the pending offer to investors in New York.Michael Lee-Chin's companies AIC Barbados...
Mohan Jagnarine, the chief executive officer of Spur Tree Spices Jamaica Limited, says it is costing the company J$15 million to retrofit new space in the Garmex complex where its factory will be relocated. The move coincides...
Jamaica imported no pork leg for preparing ham this past holiday season, breaking a long-standing tradition as the Ministry of Agriculture pushes for reliance on domestic food.The break with tradition followed pleasing results from ongoing pig...
The BlackBerry is not exactly a status symbol any more, at least not in the US, after it got left in the dust by the iPhone.Now, there's a new BlackBerry that wants to get back into the cool club: the Z10.It's the first phone to run the new BlackBerry...
Since the financial sector meltdown in the United States and the resulting worldwide recession that followed that September 2008 event, central bankers and politicians have been fighting hard to maintain a measure of stability....
Venezuela's government announced plans Monday to have the state oil company turn over more of its earnings in dollars to the central bank, seeking to confront shortages of some foods and other products that have worsened due to a lack of hard currency...
The United Sates (US) is warning Antigua and Barbuda about plans to break copyright laws over its refusal to let Americans gamble at online sites based in the Caribbean island.The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday allowed Antigua and Barbuda ...
Opposition Leader Stephenson King is calling on the St Lucia govern-ment not to join the Venezuelan oil initiative, PetroCaribe, saying it could bring the island into further debt."Let's not get involved in this matter.
