MiPhone makes a stand - Hires Chinese company to build hundreds of cell sites
America Movil, the new parent company for Oceanic Digital Jamaica or MiPhone, has recruited a Chinese technology company, Huawei Technologies to ramp up the local company's cell site and distribution networks...
'Businesses too fragmented' - Samuda suggests merger of interests
Samuda suggests merger of interestsDionne RoseBusiness ReporterKarl Samuda knew before he became a Cabinet minister that Jamaican companies were represented by a number of different associations who often lobby separately for their members'...
To list on junior market, firms must be 'sponsored'
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) says it has made sufficient headway on plans for a junior market specially tailored for small and medium-size companies to launch trading within 2008."We think we have reached a far way and we are hoping...
Paulwell now an energy and technology consultant - Offices in Kingston but services sold only to foreigners
Phillip Paulwell has hung up his shingle as an international energy and technology consultant, the former Cabinet Minister has confirmed."Immediately after the (general) elections, I received a number of calls from a number of international organisations...
No finality in Finsac
On October 26, 2007, I said this about Finsac: "Debate shall continue and more might be discussed. My main views are published though they have yet evolved. I think I have said enough on this subject for the time being." I really meant this.
Golding slams EPA critics - Says they suffer from mendicancy
Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding has sharply attacked critics of the Caribbean's new free-trade pact with Europe, accusing them of mendicancy and failure to escape the psychological shackles of slavery. "There are persons who believe that the preferences...
Templer destined for OPM - Appointed CEO of National Planning Summit monitoring unit
Sancia Templer, deputy president of Jamaica Trade and Invest, has been tapped to head a new unit created to oversee the policies and pro-grammes agreed on at the National Planning Summit with the private sector in Montego Bay last...
Castelo Holdings gets Ash Wednesday ultimatum
The Jamaica Stock Ex-change (JSE) has given Castelo Holdings BV, a Curaçao company that last year bought up 79.66 per cent of listed company CMP Industries Limited, has until February 6 to make its mandatory offer to minority parties.The JSE on January...
A toll on the NIR - Reserves projected to fall to US$1.49b
Jamaica's central bank flooded the foreign exchange market with US$1.3 billion or US$108.3 billion per month during 2007 to keep the Jamaican dollar (JMD) buoyant.But while the local currency's fall was eventually contained to 5.2 per cent - having plunged...
The economic pain others would love to have - Robust growth triggers inflation - Gov't warned to take action
The good times aren't quite at an end - far from it.But Trinidadian commentators and analysts are warning of hiccups on the horizon: in the form of growing inflation, and somewhat paradoxically, a slowdown in the energy sector...
Implications of the EPA - Modest concessions on development assistance, more intense competition on horizon
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) begins with a chapter on a trade partnership for sustainable development which speaks to several development issues of interest to the region and endorses a range of development-supporting measures.
UNDERSTANDING THE EPA - Part 4 - Financial services: Cariforum rejects back-door regulation
When it comes to financial services - banking, insurance and a myriad of other activities involving money and its movement - the average business operator reading the text in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe should be forgiven if he or she is baffled....
Société Générale keeps embattled CEO - BNP Paribas considers takeover
Société Générale's CEO faced down mounting pressure for his resignation Wednesday over a trading scandal that cost billions, but his reprieve was swiftly followed by questions from the central bank about why operational "malfunctions" were ignored....
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