JPS's monthly $4b burden - Revenue pressured by fuel, profits plunge
Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) delivered less electricity to Jamaican homes in the second calendar quarter ending June, but spent nearly twice as much to power the island as it did a year ago, its latest...
Banks safe after forex fallout
Jamaica's central bank says it sees no sign of impact on the island's economy on the apparent collapse of a number of so-called alternative investment schemes.Neither have they detected any impairment of commercial banks from the fallout...
Caribbean Rhodes Scholar to battle UWI
Luke Browne, the 2008 Caribbean Rhodes Scholar has hired a team of lawyers and is hunkering down for a legal fight with the University of the West Indies (UWI) over whether he ought to have been given a higher class of degree. Browne, who studied...
BOJ governor says Jamaica weathering global shocks, but lowers growth forecast - Recasts inflation at 15-17%
The central bank has lowered its forecast for growth and raised expectations for inflation as government economic analysts coalesce around the position that the global credit crisis and higher commodity prices have hurt, though not devastate, the Jamaican economy...
Rio Bueno gets first cargo ship call - Tank-Weld to spend US$40m more on port
Construction company, Tank-Weld, which this month launched into a new sphere of business as a port operator, had its first ship call at its $2.8 billion Rio Bueno facility in Trelawny by a Chinese vessel bringing steel from the Asian country...
Commentary - Jamaica in troubling times - Corrupted officials, gangs, tech-savvy deportees: Who to blame?
There is a seemingly rising tide of indiscipline and immorality. Course and uncouth behaviour in public spaces appear to be the norm. People of all classes are generally loud and lewd; some gathering at street corners abuse decent, innocent passers-by...
Letter - Regulate, don't eliminate foreign exchange industry
THE EDITOR, Sir: With regards to this whole foreign exchange trading, I believe it is of utmost urgency that the government develop and implement some criteria to govern our local operations. It is without a doubt that foreign exchange...
C&W Caribbean marshals senior team - Appoints vice-chairman
Cable & Wireless Caribbean, based in Barbados, has appointed five new senior executives and retained two others who now form chief executive officer Richard Dodd's team, one of whom will also hold a seat on the company's board.
JAIFA celebrates Brown-Reid, Grant
Some 100 new members were inducted to the Jamaica Asso-ciation of Insurance and Financial Advisors (JAIFA), and top performers honoured at the 76th Anniversary Awards Brunch, July 29, at the Knutsford Court Hotel.
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