Shareholders of GSB and Churches credit unions last week gave the nod to their boards for the merger to proceed, and for the merged entity to adopt the new name of First...

Jamaica Broilers and Caribbean Broilers, the two largest producers of chicken meat, are crunching the numbers to determine the level of increase to be imposed on consumers, based on added costs especially arising from the pending rise in General Consumption Tax...

Hampden Estate, which ventured into bottling white overproof rum for the local market just over a year ago, has decided to cut its margin on its brand, Rum Fire, by absorbing the recently imposed more than 200 per cent increase in special consumption...

Steve Jobs' vendetta against Google remains alive, eight months after the Apple co-founder died feeling betrayed by a company he once embraced as an ally. Apple Inc is escalating the feud between two of the world's most influential companies by dumping...

Getting money in Haiti can be a harrowing experience: Bank branches are few, most of them are in the capital and a simple transaction can take half a day.Cash machines are scarce as well, and often broken or empty...

Investors continue to find more questions than answers in Spain's decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector and tap a €100 billion (US$125 billion) euro area bailout fund....

Solid gains on banking stocks and a rally on the junior market saw the major Caribbean indices ending the week slightly higher...