Category: Business & Economy

Businessman Winston Finzi, whose assets became entangled in the financial sector meltdown and rescue programme nearly three decades ago, has failed in a long-running bid to reclaim property from the American-owned company that…

THE intensifying heatwave has occasioned renewed urgent calls for companies to establish an occupational safety and health (OSH) policy, according to one lecturer at The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Mona….

Jamaica Public Service Company’s newly installed president faced the power utility’s shareholders for the first time on Friday saying he wants to make progress on curbing the theft of electricity prior to the…

The University of the West Indies Development & Endowment Fund (UWIDEF) and Flow have once again partnered to deliver much-needed state-of-the-art equipment to the University Hospital of the West Indies’ (UHWI) Intensive Care…

An escalating dispute over a gasfield in the Persian Gulf poses an early challenge to a Chinese-brokered agreement to reconcile regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Kuwait jointly claim…

Project STAR says 2023 is its awareness year as it continues to promote its social IPO on the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) which opened July 22. The team invited a group of…

CHOCOLATE-MAKING operation One One Cacao has shifted its business model from not only providing dark chocolate bars to discerning consumers, but supplying dark chocolate to be used for baking by catering businesses and…

Blue Mountain Coffee Ventures Limited, BMCV, is weighing a richer blend of tourism and coffee, with plans to add a hospitality component to its rural St Andrew operation as it looks for ways…

Poultry company Caribbean Broilers Group, CB, will be developing a pet food plant at its Newport Mills complex in Kingston, marking its re-entry to that market but on a wider scale than a…

Kadeen Mairs has resigned as chief executive officer of Dolla Financial Services. A notice posted late Friday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange said he had commenced ‘garden’ leave, effective July 28. Garden leave…