The Tourism Enhancement Fund on Monday introduced a new J$100 million revolving loan fund and signed Jamaica National Small Business Loans Limited (JNSBL) to administer the programme.The Five by Five Development Loan Fund is targeted at small suppliers...

Shareholders of preppy clothing seller J.Crew Group Inc have approved a US$3-billion deal to be taken private by two investment firms.

GSB Credit Union has launched a new loan priced at 11.95 per cent interest on a residential mortgage of 35 years, and is trumpeting the facility as the lowest rate on the market offered by a private financing agency.Other mortgages are offered at 12-13...

United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Tuesday that a prolonged rise in oil prices would pose a danger to the economy.

EBITDA, a key metric by which Digicel Group and bondholders track its operational performance, increased 32 per cent in the third quarter to a record high, the mobile company said.Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation...

Federal regulators in the United States have charged a former Goldman Sachs board member with insider trading, saying he provided confidential information to the central figure in a major hedge-fund probe.

For the week February 21-25, more than 12.5 million shares traded on the six stock exchanges across CARICOM, with 21 stocks advancing, 18 declining and 82 unchanged.Gleaner was the volume leader with 2.49 million shares traded...

Lascelles Demercado & Company produced robust results for its first quarter ended December 2010, when net profit surged despite anaemic revenue...

The conviction on Tuesday, February 22, of Jamaica's reggae superstar Mark 'Buju Banton' Myrie in a Florida court on cocaine-related charges has left his fans stunned, dismayed, and worried about his fate....

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Restaurants of Jamaica, the franchise holders for KFC, is planning to spend J$200 million this year to remodel five of its stores as part of a re-imaging programme organised by the parent company to create a better atmosphere for dining...

Sure, Puerto Ricans can get fresh beef at the supermarket. But what many crave - and can't get - comes out of a can. A national shortage of canned corned beef caused by a recall has hit especially hard in the United States Caribbean territory...

CARICOM leaders have endorsed the candidature of Dr Jose Graziano Silva of Brazil for the post of director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).Six candidates have been put forward by member nations of the FAO to succeed...

The Barbados government says it has been advised by the US Department of Homeland Security and other United States agencies that they have implemented a number of measures "to enhance existing security procedures for screening inbound airmail and cargo...

The Muammer Gaddafi regime in Libya is said to have invested at least US$500 millions with accused disgraced financier Allen Stanford.The American television network CNBC in a report cited court documents which show that on January 25, 2009 Stanford...

Dr Ralph Gonsalves says he believes CARICOM countries will adopt a united position when they vote at the United Nations later this week on two resolutions relating to the unrest in Libya."We anticipate that two resolutions will come on Libya ...