Valentine's Day sees lacklustre sales
ALTHOUGH MOST merchants reported slow sales in January due to the traditional after-Christmas lull, this year Valentine's Day did little to speed things up. Some business owners blamed the poor economy for the disappointing results...
Moody's sounds positive note on Jamaica
INTERNATIONAL CREDIT rating agency, Moody's, has sounded an encouraging note on the Jamaican economy by affirming its stable outlook on the country's sovereign credit ratings...
Wray, Shirley to head Grace's merged Financial Services Division
WAYNE WRAY has been appointed president of First Global Bank Ltd. and Sandra Shirley, president of First Global Financial Services Ltd., the two companies which are being created by the impending mergers of entities in the Financial Services Division...
US call centre law to affect J'can operations
A GROUP of American information technology specialists is predicting a downward spiral in the call centre sector in Jamaica and other offshore destinations, if certain debilitative legislative policies in the United States are not aggressively resisted...
Tourism players want tax reduction on imports
A COMPARATIVE survey on import structures among seven other Caribbean tourism destinations has ranked Jamaica as the country with the highest importation costs for products used in the hotel and tourism sectors.
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