A recent visit to Addis Ababa – the centre of African diplomacy and home of the African Union (AU) – triggered musings on the outlook for the continent in 2023. The concerns among…
Neil Richards What’s the future character of Lady Musgrave Road
The intention to plant thousands of trees to escort Lady Musgrave Road when her waistline expands has not consoled some irate citizens whose fundamental concern is the likely radical change to the character…
Mark Wignall | What sound reason to vote in next elections?
I voted for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in 2016 and in 2020. At this very moment as I write this column (Thursday, April 6), there is no strong feeling pushing me to…
Dawn Butler | Casey report confirms brutal truth of rotten Met Police
The findings of the Casey Report on the internal culture at the Metropolitan Police in London are as stark as they are brutal. Most of us who have been campaigning for change won’t…
CAC 2000 strikes partnerships to fix losses
FACED WITH a first quarter loss and peaks and troughs in its revenue flows, air conditioning company, CAC 2000 Limited, has struck a deal with Real Marketing out of Trinidad and Tobago to…
Stock market loses $5 billion on Monday
THE JAMAICA Stock Exchange, JSE, now hovers at just above pandemic lows following its slide on Monday that wiped out $5 billion in market value. Suffering its biggest day of losses in at…
SVREL cranks up digital strategy
GAMING AND entertainment company, Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL), is upping the ante with its digital strategy, while moving to top a record 2022. The company has digital innovations such as…
Tesla cuts prices on all models
DETROIT (AP): TESLA CUT prices on its entire United States electric vehicle model line-up for the third time this year, in an apparent effort to lure more buyers amid rising interest rates. The…
Russia: West must remove obstacles to its grain exports
ANKARA, Turkey (AP): RUSSIA MAY pull out of a wartime deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain to global markets, if the West fails to remove obstacles to Russian agricultural exports, Moscow’s…
Asian stocks follow Wall Street up
BEIJING (AP): ASIAN STOCK markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday ahead of a United States (US) job market update that 236,000 jobs were added, a situation traders hope might encourage the Federal…