Category: Business & Economy

WE need to ensure that poor quality application of the professional accountant’s code of ethics doesn’t undermine positive progress in implementing sustainability reporting by businesses — Global Ethics Day warning. The latest research…

In a concerted effort to empower the next generation, Flow recently partnered with students of the Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies for an enlightening…

Environmental groups have urged a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of a meeting of a UN body in Jamaica that conservationists fear will soon authorise the world’s first licence to harvest minerals from…

THOUSANDS of customers of one of the country’s biggest telecoms companies remain vulnerable to cyberattacks through their Wi-Fi routers because of that entity’s failure to take adequate action against the threat. The device…

JAMAICA failed in the quest to be removed from the dreaded “grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), in the entity’s latest review of measures the country has taken to deal…

Guardsman Group wants a portion of the cash local companies are doling out to protect their businesses from cybercrime. Concurrently, the security company is broadening its offerings to improve its onsite protection services….

Jamaica Standard Products Limited, JSP, is venturing into what General Manager John Minott says is its first full-blown café, to be called Island Blue Coffee House, a brand to be tested initially in…

Within days, the disputed takeover of minority holdings in Petrojam by the Jamaican government is likely to get a hearing from an international arbitration panel. It comes amid new disclosure by the Ministry…

Outsourcing Management Limited, which trades as itel, recently overhauled its books following concerns raised by key investors. The disclosure was made on Tuesday by one of those investors, equity fund Portland JSX Limited,…

THE Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL), operators of the Kingston Container Terminal, is now in a mad rush to clear congestion at the port as the busy Christmas period approaches. KFTL said the…