THE Jamaican Government says its is taking steps to transform Jamaican into a digital economy.Speaking yesterday at the 9th Annual Mona School of Business Management (MSBM) Roundtable CEO Breakfast Forum at the Mona...
Bermudian-headquartered Nordic American Tankers has decided it will not conduct a bond offering to raise additional capital. In an open letter to shareholders and investors, the company noted improving conditions in the...
Bermuda has to guard against being bullied into cutting its own throat amid European Union demands over companies based here that are deemed to lack economic substance. Bob Richards, the former finance minister, made the...
A homely Devonshire restaurant is set to be recognised by the Travel Channel for its tasty cassava pie. Flame, a family-owned business located on North Shore Road, Devonshire, was launched by owners Jennifer and Greg...
June 21 saw 0 shares trade on the Bermuda Stock Exchange. The BSX finished at 2,723.21, even on the day. There were 0 advances, 0 declines, and 61...
June 21 saw 0 shares trade on the Bermuda Stock Exchange. The BSX finished at 2,723.21, even on the day. There were 0 advances, 0 declines, and 61 remained unchanged. The full report for the day is available here [PDF]....
Guess what? The heads of government for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have met and they have discussed one of our favourite topics, the Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) ... again! This time, the...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CMC) â The government of the Dominican Republic says trade with neighbouring Haiti has surpassed last year's figure of US$800 million.This was disclosed by Foreign Minister Miguel...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) â Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has expressed concern with Barbados' disbursement rate of loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).She made the comments on Wednesday after a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) â Whether they are fans of Argentina's Lionel Messi or devotees of Brazil's âSelecao,â Haitians struck by football fever have brought life on their Caribbean island to a...
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) â Minutes after a plane carrying 113 people crashed on takeoff from Havana airport, Cuban state media filled with minute-by-minute updates, cellphone video from the accident and an interview from...
Soap manufacturing company Blue Power has beefed up supplies in the Guyanese market, in addition to securing a contract with a Florida-based distributor as part of efforts to protect its revenue stream from unfavourable...
Experiments undertaken by National Rums of Jamaica (NRJ) to distil their rum directly from sugar cane juice, if successful, could result in increased jobs for local farmers and agricultural workers, while reviving the...
While Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Audley Shaw was correct in urging greater use of local farm produce by the hotel sector to avoid market gluts, he overlooked those who were already well on...
 By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell What better place to talk about tax evasion than a room filled with influential businessmen and women? Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissioner General, Godfrey Statia, did not miss...
In Lewis Carrol's masterpiece, Alice in Wonderland, the protagonist comes face to face with an array of unusual circumstances that somehow have their own logic when viewed from a different perspective.In much the...
Britain's Treasury chief is expected to outline plans to ensure the nation's financial services industry can thrive after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union in a speech that was to be...
Xiaomi, a Chinese cell phone maker that helped pioneer the trend towards ultra-low-priced smartphones, is preparing for what would possibly be the biggest tech initial public offering since e...
Officials from major oil-producing nations are expected to agree this week to boost output, but just how much they will open the spigot - and the effect on oil prices - remain wild cards....
The Development Bank of Jamaica, DBJ, has received billions of dollars in new multilateral money, and is hunting billions more, to be able to up its game as a full-service provider of...
Ice cream maker Caribbean Cream Limited, which trades as Kremi, faced rising input costs last year, but chose to absorb some of them, while tempering price increases on customers, according to CEO...
Blue Power Group Limited, which makes soaps and trades in lumber, purchased the properties that house its soap division in downtown Kingston within the quarter ending April.The company...
Gaming company Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) will soon start collecting data from its nearly 300,000 customers."We are currently developing our own business intelligence solution ... to understand our...
Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL) is setting up a pre-delivery inspection facility at Tinson Pen in Kingston, with the aim of taking over the inspection service for used car imports.The...
Import rules around coffee, plus the new commodity cess imposed by regulator JACRA, have put instant coffee processor Salada Foods Jamaica Limited in an uncomfortable spot.Not only has local...
Although T&T used up half of a billion dollars of foreign reserves over the past six months and is likely to use more for the rest of the year, the country should not be worried, Central Bank Governor Alvin Hilaire...