Their confidence hit by recession and uncertain about the future, Jamaican firms and individuals were more frugal about borrowing in 2010, reversing the growth trend for debt of recent years despite...
Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism, has come out swinging against comments made by Opposition Spokesman on Tourism Dr Wykeham McNeill that the opening of the Falmouth cruise-ship pier could see significant fall-off at the...
Cable and Wireless (C&W), the telecoms company that trades in the Caribbean as LIME, says it has completed the buildout of the US$35 million undersea cable connecting Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic.
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The Development Bank of Jamaica Limited (DBJ) has extended the deadline for the submission of bids for the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) interest in the Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited (MBCF) by two months - from Friday, February 11, to Friday, March...
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC):The National Workers' Union (NWU) Friday warned the regional airline, LIAT, that it would not support plans to shut down the city office of the airline placing workers on the breadline.
Despite the presence of a number of more established airline services in the region, chairman of REDjet Airlines, Ian Burns, is confident that his company's business strategy can change the culture of the aviation industry in...
Montego Freeport Limited (MFL) has put its five remaining properties on the market for sale, with John Gourzong, company chairman, stating Friday that the move heralds the probable winding up of the company, which will have...
Washington, DC (JIS):Underscoring the progress achieved with the Government's new macro- economic policy, Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States ...
The National Land Agency (NLA) indicates that some $43.5 billion in real estate sector sales were completed islandwide in 2010, with local realtors pointing to increased cash sales and the determination by many to take advantage of distressed property...
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) on Friday issued a notice that the licence of Intertrade Finance Corporation Limited ('Intertrade'), a company dealing in securities and fund management, had been suspended.
WASHINGTON (AP):The unemployment rate is sinking at the fastest pace in half a century because a surprisingly large number of people say they're finding work.
BRUSSELS (AP):France and Germany pushed other Eurozone countries to sign up for tough measures to limit debt loads, make their economies more productive, and stamp out the government debt crisis that has crippled their currency union over the past...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): The European Union (EU) said Friday it had made available a record high €130.2 million (US$162.7 million) in grant funding to nine Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries last year.