Jamaica to get first solar car
JAMAICA'S FIRST solar powered vehicle is being built by a group of six final year mechanical engineering students under the supervision of faculty members from the University of Technology (UTech).

Keeping professionals in poverty
I GET many emails and other responses to these weekly articles. I must confess I am playing catch-up at the moment on my responses, but I hope to cover the backlog by early July. An email response to last week's article 'Housing - A Poverty...

No more foreign management for Pegasus
FOUR YEARS after they dispensed with an international marquee and handed the hotel to local managers, the board of the Jamaica Pegasus have declared themselves satisfied with the decision. They say they are in for the long-haul.

Roy Johnson takes new JSE post
FORMER JAMAICA Stock Exchange executive chairman Roy Johnson is to be appointed as its chief executive officer, responsible for the organisation's strategic development. The appointment becomes effective on July 1, 2006.

LOJ plans $1b St Ann project
INSURANCE PROVIDER Life of Jamaica plans a J$1 billion residential development at Llandovery, St Ann, on seafront property it has acquired. Rohan Miller, vice president of investments at LOJ, said the company expects to build...

Buffett is decisive in donating fortune
NEW YORK (Los Angeles Times): WHEN THE world's second-richest man signed the bulk of his fortune over to the world's richest man's foundation on Monday, Bill Gates (No. 1) quipped to Warren E. Buffett (No. 2): "I didn't see your hands shaking there."

No phishing allowed
IN AN attempt to eliminate phishing online, Symantec Corp. recently announced that in September it will release a beta version of a security software product called Norton Confidential, which will cement a computer's defences...

Lydford producing limestone
LYDFORD MINING Company Limited, a privately-owned facility in St. Ann, is making strides in mining high purity limestone from reclaimed bauxite lands which are leased from the Government. General manager of the 15-year-old mining company, Leo Cousins...