Category: Business & Economy

Money-losing Japanese automaker Nissan is banking on its latest ‘e-Power’ technology for a turnaround. A kind of hybrid, e-Power comes equipped with both an electric motor and gasoline engine, much like the Toyota…

The Gleaner’s May 14, 2025 story, ‘PAHO/WHO, National Safety Council Donate Breathalysers’ influenced today’s article. It sparked two questions that life and non-life insurance companies, policymakers, the opposition party, religious and other…

There have been calls for the motor vehicle repair sector in Jamaica to be overhauled in light of the influx of Chinese vehicles to the island as well as the interest generated by…

Jamaica’s economy grew 0.8 per cent in the March 2025 quarter, marking its exit from technical recession. The Planning Institute of Jamaica, PIOJ, the agency that released the figures, remains cautious on uncertainties…

Following a further reduction in its policy rate, the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, is again urging commercial banks to reduce their lending rates to their customers. The BOJ has lowered the cost of…

Helio Castroneves felt an immediate difference – a subtle but noticeable uptick in speed – the first time he utilised the boost of horsepower offered by IndyCar’s novel hybrid engines around the imposing…

With the main tourism season having ended in April, egg farmers are praying for a more favourable hurricane season this year so that they can fully supply the country including the hoteliers with…

Cigarette trader Carreras Limited posted a net profit of $1.4 billion for the first quarter ended March 2025, more than double the $568.5 million earned in the year prior, as the cigarette distributor…

With less than one per cent of the poultry trade throughout CARICOM originating from companies in the region, players in the industry say non-tariff barriers are curtailing their efforts to do more business…

Guardsman Group Limited has launched its new Cyber Secure Operations Centre, SOC, in Kingston, which Group Director of Finance Neil Robinson says was outfitted at a cost of just under US$2 million. “We…