Gov't raises $11.6b from investment debenture
The Government has raised almost $11.6 billion from its recent offer of a 21 per cent investment debenture which was placed on the market to help finance its budgetary requirements. In a release last week, the Ministry of Finance and Planning said...

JPSCo, Italian firm in legal battle - Increased cost to complete transmission lines rejected
An Italian company's $35 million increase in the cost to complete the transmission lines on the Spur Tree To Kendal highway, Manches-ter, has ended in the Jamaica Public Service Com-pany (JPSCo) and the Italian company.

Is it a bargain?
A guy is selling notebooks for something like $65,000 when you know they're about $100,000. You think how wonderful it would be to have such a modern convenience. And you need to know, "Is it worth it?"

KFC re-invests millions
In the 10-year period between 1990 and 2000, Restaurants of Jamaica (RoJ), local franchise holders for KFC, have re-invested some $300 million in the Jamaican economy. RoJ has added five new restaurants and is undertaking constant "image enhancement" at.

Best Dressed Chicken processing plant now internationally competitive

Few corporations in Jamaica can boast that their workers are so efficient that there is nothing to be gained from becoming fully automated. This, according to Best Dressed Chicken Processing plant manager, Major Neil Lewis, is the situation that now...