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Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker has promised shipping agents and customs brokers that by summer of this year, the C87 form, a seven-page document, will become a single copy. The C87 is an electronic-entry lodgement system used for the importation...

Toyota Motor Corp said Monday its dealers should get parts to fix a sticky gas-pedal problem by the end of this week as the automaker apologised to customers and tried to bring an end to a recall that has affected 4.2 million vehicles worldwide....

Honda is recalling 646,000 Fit hatchbacks worldwide because of a glitch that could cause water to enter the power window mechanism, causing components to overheat. A spokeswoman says the recall affects the 2007-2008 models of the Fit...

The intervention of Prime Minister Bruce Golding is being sought to bring closure to a dispute over aspects of the compensation package for commissioner of police-in-waiting, Owen Ellington. The Police Service...

Subscribers to Flow's telephone service are demanding explanations at the sudden appearance of their private information in the national telephone directory, produced annually by a third party.

Prime Asset Management Limited and trainers Fitz-Ritson and Associates have teamed up on a programme to educate the overseers and administrators of pensions funds and human-resource managers in a new academic course to be...

Toyota Motor Corp's suspension of sales in the United States on an unprecedented scale to fix faulty gas pedals deals a blow to the automaker's reputation for quality and endangers its fledgling...

Who pays to promote the Caribbean as a destination that tourists should visit? Is it governments through general taxation, or is it the hoteliers and those in the private sector who benefit from the industry's success.

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) had to pick up $13 billion worth of bonds to bail out the Government earlier this month. Deputy Financial Secretary Darlene Morrison confirmed the transaction Thursday night but denied suggestions that it represented an advance to the Government.

THE DEBT exchange and new taxation charges will result in a compression of the economy and an effective reduction of revenues from taxation, according to tax expert Brian Denning, who says the fiscal initiatives announced in the past nine months would effectively squeeze $82 billion from the system.

JAMAICA'S INVESTMENT houses have stepped up their push of unit trust products as a fairly safe alternative to stocks and fixed-income securities whose yields are constrained by economic uncertainty and a push to lower interest rates...