Christmas prospects gloomy for retailers
IT IS just a week before Christmas and some merchants have not decorated their stores yet: that tells the tale. Many say the season is much slower than last year's because of a mountain of problems facing consumers.
Candidate Davies envisions a world-class Jamaica
PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) presidential aspirant, Dr. Omar Davies took his 'world class' campaign platform to a nearly full house of private sector business leaders at the Terra Nova Hotel on Tuesday morning.
Art Jamaica - A new frontier in destination marketing
WESTERN BUREAU: GERMAN LIFESTYLE tour operator, Wim de Ruiter says Jamaica can join the ranks of destinations such as Barcelona and Paris by adding art to its tourism marketing strategy.
Healthy growth at Carreras
ANALYSTS AND brokers expect local equities to benefit from the recent confidence-boosting report of the IMF on the economic prospects of Jamaica. As part of its regional outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean...
Robin Hoods or rotten scoundrels?
THE ENTRENCHMENT of criminal behaviour is something that we cannot allow to spread, as seems to be happening, with the latest demise of one of our most notorious denizens. Jamaica can be easily overwhelmed with the support for criminality...
Gospel music key to reaching affluent American blacks - advertisers
THE WASHINGTON POST: MONICA MILLER, general sales manager of Radio One Inc.'s gospel station in Atlanta, remembers how hard it used to be to sell advertising for 97.5 Praise FM. Three years ago...
Sagicor policy termination is normal - US insurers
FOLLOWING A row between Sagicor Allnation in the United States and some of its older clients over terminated medical policies, insurance officials in Delaware say the termination of group policies is a normal business practice.
Portland's winter tourism initiatives raise concerns
THE MUCH anticipated winter tourist season for Port Antonio was given a jump-start earlier this week as cruise vessel Braemaer made its call at the Ken Wright Shipping Pier on Tuesday.
A time for leadership in global trade
AS TRADE ministers from around the world gather in Hong Kong for the Sixth World Trade Organisation Ministerial, it is important to remember what is at stake in these negotiations - nothing less...
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