Category: Business & Economy

COME the end of this month, it will be two years since NCB Financial Group Limited (NCBFG) last paid a dividend to its shareholders whose reliance on the financial conglomerate’s previously consistent payments…

For two days, June 7 and 8, the Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE, will be in the Dominican Republic in downtown Santo Domingo to attract the attention of investors in that country and facilitate…

JAMAICA’S potential to become a cashless society is determined by an ecosystem requiring all efforts from the Government, businesses and consumers, according to one technology expert. Dushyant Savadia, CEO of the Amber Group…

Over 200 girls, aged 13 to 16 years, left Flow’s recent Girls in ICT Expo feeling motivated and ready to innovate. The event provided students from across the island with a unique opportunity…

A pandemic can change perspective. And for Thalia Lyn, the past chief executive, deputy chair and founder of food service company Island Grill Group, that meant a recalibration about who to hand over…

Marine park operator Dolphin Cove Limited is advancing plans for the expansion of two parks, on the heels of what has been its best annual performance in its 22-year history, and expectations of…

The new majority owner of the Jamalco alumina refinery intends to pump up to US$20 million of capital into the operation, which it expects to return to profit by September. “With respect to…

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — The breathtaking development of artificial intelligence has dazzled users by composing music, creating images and writing essays, while also raising fears about its implications. Even European Union officials…

IN these trying times, music can still be described as one thing that when it hits you, you feel no pain. What can be rather painful, however, is after having exerted much effort…

THE Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is trying to get farmers to come together and utilise technology to predict plant deficiencies with the use of drones. RADA’s Senior Programmer Hartnell Campbell says the…