Caribbean Cement Company Limited has announced a shutdown of production for the second time this year - the first as safeguard against damage from civil unrest, the second due to an underperforming market.The company, which now has four months ...

The tax reform project, due to be wrapped up next, will separate the systems for domestic taxes and those linked to international trade, while three tax departments are slated to merge.Under the Tax Administration Reform Project, ongoing since January...

Christopher Reid of Jamaica Air Shuttle has raised an objection with the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority on plans by a rival Turks and Caicos carrier to service certain Caribbean routes that it also plans to fly....

Global Gateways Solutions, provider of back-office customer service and collections services is adding 100 workers to service expanded contracts.Operations manager O'Neil Brown, said the call centre company which started with 15 workers and one client...

First Regional Co-operative Credit Union (FRCCU) is bucking the trend of home-loan providers, holding mortgage rates firm despite interest rates on bank loans heading south.First Regional, with 10 locations spread over two parishes - St Mary and St Ann...

Veteran broadcaster and lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Fae Ellington, has been appointed interim manager of the Universal Media Company which operates News Talk 93 FM.

Security gains and capitalist-friendly investment rules are spurring an unprecedented mining and oil boom in Colombia, a pro-business outpost on an increasingly leftist continent.Investors are deeming...

The Dominica government on Monday outlined a new package of assistance, amounting over time to about EC$4 million, to help revitalise the banana industry as well as the agricultural sector.To start, the Agricultural Industrial...

Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela have signed off on the terms of a new pact for the exploration of hydrocarbon reserves in their waters, an agreement that Port-of-Spain trumpets as opening "new doors...

Caribbean Petroleum Corp (Capeeco) has filed for bankruptcy protection nearly a year after the tanks at its fuel depot exploded, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people.The company has at least US$500 million in debt and seeks to sell all its...

What if you graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI) or University of Technology with a Bachelor of Arts degree and 18 months later were still unable to find a job?

Canadian fertiliser producer Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc said on Tuesday it has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from BHP Billiton Limited, worth about US$38.49 billion, as "grossly inadequate."...