Jamaica Public Service Company Limited has secured a Japanese grant to study whether the Great River in St James has sufficient juice to produce electricity on a commercially viable basis.The river, which runs close to the border of Hanover...

Pan Caribbean Financial Services Limited (PCFS) has notified the market that in two weeks, it will move to redeem more than three million preference shares, or exactly half the stock units issued over two years ago when...

Sagicor Life Jamaica has closed the sale of its general insurance business in Cayman Islands to Bahamas First Holdings Limited, but said Friday it continues to maintain a presence in that country through its other holdings....

Jamaica College (JC) alumni will tonight pay tribute to two Jamaican businessmen at the association's annual dinner.Michael Campbell, the chairman of Island Car Rentals, and Michael Bernard, managing director of cigarette distributor Carreras Group...

Six eastern Caribbean countries may well hold the key as to whether or not the 1986 global ban on commercial whaling is overturned, thereby opening up the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica to hunting.

Oil executives sharply criticised United States (US) President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deep-water drilling at a major industry conference Tuesday, saying the world did not have enough other sources of oil to eliminate using deep-sea rigs.

High Court Justice Errol Thomas has ruled in favour of Canadian investor Alexander Fundora to remove the Antigua-appointed Vantis Business Recovery Services from the Stanford case.

CARICOM countries will finally have a voice at a major forum of world leaders that precedes this month's Summit of G20 countries in Toronto.Jamaica and Haiti are among 10 countries...

Dr Denzil Douglas, chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), says an economic union among member countries should start to take effect early next year, following last Friday's historic signing...

American Airlines is inspecting 56 of its Boeing 767 jets after cracks were detected on at least two planes. American spokesman Tim Wagner said Tuesday the cracks were discovered in the pylons that attach...

Germany's car industry, the backbone of Europe's largest economy, is booming again. Fuelled by the huge appetite for German luxury cars in China and the fact that the plunging euro has made European products cheaper abroad, manufacturers...