C&W sees a dark future
CABLE & WIRELESS Plc last month forecast a grim year ahead as it revealed figures that showed the cost of its ambitious attempt to create a global data network based on Internet technology. The British telecommunications company...

More than marketing to fix tourism - US Ambassador
UNITED STATES Ambassador Sue M. Cobb has some strong advice for Jamaica if it hopes to maximise on its potential as a preferred tourism...

Passage to India is quite an experience
IT WAS not shaping up to be a good evening. I was hot, unsure of where I was going and was in no frame of mind to conduct an interview. But I plodded on, intent on meeting my deadline. My mission was to write...

Getting under an 'umbrella' for the hurricane season
QUESTION: THE recent floods damaged my 10-year old family home in Clarendon. The cost of repairs will amount to around $50,000. The house has concrete block walls and a decramastic tile roof. I estimate its value at...

US fortune vs Jamaican bureaucracy
A GROUP of lawyers in the United States who are trying to administer on the assets of a Jamaican who died without a will in Florida leaving property valued at almost J$90 million, say they are being frustrated in their efforts...

Guardian aiming to dominate the region
FORTUNE MAGAZINE does not write about entrepreneurs in the less glamorous, steady-as-she-goes life insurance business, Peter Ganteaume concedes. No matter. As Ganteaume has realised in his capacity as group chief executive...