Category: Business & Economy

Motorists will pay $0.25 more for gas when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell for $171.35 per litre while a litre of E-10…

India-born Singaporean business executive Rajeev Suri has been appointed Chairman of the Digicel Group. Suri, a former president and chief executive officer of Nokia, replaces Denis O’Brien, who will continue on the board…

Juice maker Trade Winds Citrus Limited says fruit supplies continue to fall, affecting both local supplies and exports. The volumes of citrus sold by the company was down nine per cent last year,…

Power utility Jamaica Public Service Company, JPS, plans to add nearly 300 megawatts of energy to the national electricity grid in support of the government’s 50 per cent renewable energy target. It has…

D espite still being in the process of finalising its first acquisition since listing on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), MFS Capital Partners Limited is moving ahead with plans to capitalise on private…

THE first locally manufactured tea with ginseng has hit the market. Shavuot International raised the curtain on its latest masterpiece, “Boost” tea, at an exclusive product launch event last Friday in St Mary….

The Flow Foundation, in a significant stride toward enhancing internet accessibility, has gifted high-speed broadband connections to several community institutions as part of its Mission Week 2023 efforts. Bellevue Hospital in Kingston, Cross…

Greenpeace activists have boarded a deep-sea mining ship in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico and say they’ll stay to protest exploration the ship is conducting to support activity that would destroy…

EXPLORING real estate as an investment goes beyond the conventional path of purchasing a house, according to Peter Thompson, group chief client investment officer at JMMB. In an interview with the Jamaica Observer,…

BANK fraud is on the decline, at least up to November 2022 when data on fraud activities were last published by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ). The success stems from a mix of…