Not all car dealers are feeling squeezed by the hike in car import duties, which largely impacted sport utility and other large vehicles.President of the Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association (JUDCA), Lynvalle...

Radio audiences are down while television audiences have grown, according to the latest All Media survey.Radio is also contending with shifting brand loyalty among high- and medium-income listeners along the way....

THE WORLD Bank, in an update on remittances released last week, said flows to developing countries are projected to hit US$406 billion this year and rise to US$534 billion in 2015.Within Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), however, projections...

The Supreme Court has ordered Alcoa Minerals of Jamaica to compensate poultry farmer Orinthia Hanson for business losses caused by a faulty drainage system developed by the mining company.The J$30-million...

LAST WEEK, our Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips told the nation what many economic observers knew for weeks - there will be no International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal before the end of this year. When the December 2012 target was voiced some months ago...

There is a buzz of excitement in Mexico City, as the country prepares to inaugurate President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto.After 12 years in the desert, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is ready to return to the helm...

Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on parts of the United States East Coast a month ago Thursday after tearing through the Caribbean at hurricane strength.In the weeks since, the storm's scope has come into sharper focus...

Argentina got some breathing room Wednesday in its billion-dollar debt show-down as an appeals court indefinitely suspended a federal judge's ruling that threatened to push the country into default. The two-paragraph appellate court order sets a February...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez arrived in Havana for medical treat-ment on Tuesday.The Communist Party daily Granma reports that Chávez arrived during the night.Chávez has spent much of the past 18 months fighting cancer....

The Suriname government says it has reached an agreement with Canadian company, Iamgold, to further expand the profitable Rosebel gold mine.Iamgold owns a 90 per cent stake in the mine that produced 385,000 ounces of gold in 2011.The new deal amends...

The price of oil rose Thursday on an improved reading on US economic growth while lawmakers continued their tussle over the 'fiscal cliff'.The US Commerce Department on Thursday raised its estimate for US economic growth to an annual rate of 2.7 per...

The United States economy grew at a 2.7 per cent annual rate from July through September, much faster than first thought...