'Flu fears for Broilers unfounded'
THE PRICE of chicken is proving tough for some consumers to chew on, so why then is the share price of Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) floundering? From a 52 week high of $6.50, the share was trading at $2.93 yesterday.

Joe Taffe - New driver for GraceKennedy's finance arm
JOE TAFFE has been designated as the next head of the Financial Services Division of Jamaica's leading conglomerate GraceKennedy. Generating over half of the group's profits...

More failures ahead at WTO talks
THE WORLD awaits another round of major trade talks in December of this year, when there is a key World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting. Unfortunately, major stumbling blocks at two previous key meetings...

Healthy results for Kingston Wharves
THE EARNING season got off to a favourable start as mostly healthy results for the September quarter entered the market this week. Kingston Wharves was the most impressive with a 74 per cent upturn in profits for the nine months...

Investors eyeing Courts takeover - ... Planning to swipe Carib chains
PORT-OF-SPAIN (Trinidad Express): SEVERAL CONGLOMERATES, including ANSA McAL, are making bids to purchase the assets of the furniture and appliance chain Courts T&T, and other stores in the wider Caribbean, the Trinidad Express learnt yesterday.

Free trade battle looms
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP): A SHOWDOWN over free trade loomed large as leaders from across the Americas yesterday flew to Argentina to find solutions to trade woes crippling Latin American and Caribbean economies.

How to plan a special event
ROSA PARKS, regarded as the 'mother' of the civil rights movement in the United States of America, died last month, at the age of 92. At the age of 42, she refused to give up her seat in the front of a bus to a white man.