Business

Port Computer Services Limited (PCS), the Jamaican partner of Westbrook Technologies, is now offering FortisBlue, a web-based document management software catering to the entry level market. FortisBlue, which was launched internationally by Westbrook in...

The gains from the introduction of a graduated income-tax scheme will earn the Government little revenue, economist and university professor Damien King is suggesting in a swipe at the tax package announced December 23 by the Golding administration...

Newly incorporated Proven Investments Limited (PIL) will be offering as many as 200 million shares in the company to investors in a private placement scheduled for January 20 to raise equity of up to US$20 million."Proven Investments Limited has filed...

It took 10 years and $40 million to be completed, but on November 19, Elaine Peck launched the project on which she has spent much of her passion and all her resources — EPA Virtual Educator (EPAVE), which...

The once-cuddly relationship between Google Inc and Apple Inc is morphing into a prickly power struggle as the ambitions and ideas of the technology trendsetters increasingly collide. The growing use of high-powered phones for Web surfing ...

The continued uncertainty surrounding the details of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement may have contributed to the current apathy that dominated equity trading last week. Trading on the stock market was characterised by very low trading volumes...

A CEO recently told me one of the greatest deterrents to staff productivity was the widespread financial problems among workers. Some had even taken out loans with so-called 'loan sharks' at rapacious interest rates....

Moving to scotch speculation that it might be in trouble after two deals to raise cash, Sagicor Financial Corporation (SFC) said Thursday that it merely needed capital to fund its expansion in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) ...

It is fashionable to compare Jamaica's 'underdevelopment', with Singapore's rise. Recently, Richard Byles of Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited, made the comparison: Jamaica off track, rudderless without a plan...

The Monymusk sugar factory began grinding cane this week, and is working with a set target of 37,000 tonnes of sugar from 426,000 tonnes of cane - a tonne cane tonne sugar or TCTS ratio of 11.51. The factory is still undergoing major rehabilitative work...

The Government has sent clear signals this week that it is now ready to sign off on its letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a US$1.3-billion stand-by agreement for 27 months. The draft letter of intent will be presented to the Cabinet for consideration...

Jamaica's central bank Governor Brian Wynter is confident the economic doubts that caused the domestic financial market to reject recent government bond offers will be lifted, removing the need for continued Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) lending, except in the most extreme...