Business
December 9, 2025
Cedric Stephens | Funding drainage infrastructure for Kingston and St Andrew
The September 25, 2025, flood rains that battered Kingston and St Andrew, occurred nearly 12 months after a similar event inundated the rural village of John’s Hall, St James. A resident, according to…
December 9, 2025
Colombia foreign minister renounces US visa as tensions escalate
Colombia’s foreign minister has “renounced” her US visa to protest a decision by the State Department of the United States to revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the Colombian…
December 9, 2025
New marijuana drug effective at reducing back pain, study finds
An experimental medication made from marijuana successfully reduced back pain in a new study, offering further support for the drug’s potential in treating one of the most common forms of chronic…
December 9, 2025
BOJ maintains policy rate at 5.75 per cent
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has announced it is holding its policy rate at 5.75 per cent per annum. It says during meetings on September 25 and 26, its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held…
December 9, 2025
Angela Huyue Zhang | A TikTok deal China will love
After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, president of the United States, Donald Trump, has now signed an executive order transferring the…
December 9, 2025
Authors triumph in copyright case against AI company
A federal judge on Thursday approved a US$1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to…
December 9, 2025
UN blacklists another 68 companies over Israeli settlements
The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli…
December 9, 2025
by Steven Jackson
National Rums get temporary relief in industry fight
Rum makers will return to court next February to battle over the definition of Jamaican rum, following a Supreme Court ruling that gives National Rums of Jamaica Limited, NRJ, temporary relief. On…
December 9, 2025
Fesco to add four more gas stations to network
Future Sources Energy Company Limited, which trades as Fesco, will add at least four new service stations to the network by December 2026. The investment will range from $700 million to $1 billion and…