JBG ethanol sales evaporate

Jamaica Broilers Group Limited (JBG) ethanol sales have plunged to half the levels of a year ago, truncating sales by $4 billion - a result of erratic demand.JBG attributes the performance ...

220 booths on offer at JMA/JEA expo

75 per cent already soldThe 2010 JMA/JEA expo will cost $20 million to stage, its organisers said Tuesday at the launch of the annual event, whose theme this year is 'Brand Jamaica to the World'.Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) and Jamaica...

Shields and Shields diversifies

Shields and Shields, local retailer and producer of fresh cut flowers and plants, will be moving into wholesale vegetables starting around April, as the company seeks...

Industry and Commerce ministry to relocate downtown

Karl Samuda, who last month defended the planned move uptown of agencies under his portfolio as economical for them, is now planning to do the opposite and move his ministry downtown "within months".

BA strike looms

Contingency plans in place for some Caribbean routes The planned seven days of strike action by British Airways (BA) workers is worrying hoteliers who foresee a potential loss of business, notwithstanding assurances from the carrier...

Cuban sugar hit by low productivity

Production at Cuba's sugar plants has been hit hard this year by inefficiency, a spate of breakdowns and other technical problems, state-media reported, adding to sobering news for the island's economy.Breakdowns and other interruptions have idled...

Insurance companies banned from writing new business

Two Colonial Life Insurance Company subsidiaries - CLICO International Life Insurance Company and British American Insurance Company - have been banned from writing any new business and face being...

CL Financial collapse a 'failure of regulation'

Characterising it as a regional failing, Trinidad's central bank chief Ewart Williams said the financial monitoring system, which he described as rudimentary,...

Drought withers Guyana cane fields

The Caribbean's biggest supplier of sugar to Europe and the United States says drought is threatening its vast sugarcane fields. The state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation....

Derivatives debate splits US, Europe regulators

To European officials, financial derivatives are dangerous weapons that worsened Greece's debt crisis and should be curbed.To Wall Street, they're tools that reduce risk and generate profits and should be left alone...

Don't be nervous

You may not be prone to nail-biting nervousness in times of uncertainty, but the odds in favour of experiencing jitters before and during a job interview, even so, is quite high.Fear of the unknown and anxiety about making a good impression should not...

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