The government of this oil-rich twin-island republic yesterday said it had applied for membership in the Brussels-based Egmont group of Financial Intelligent Units (FIUs).
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that this year's wheat harvest will be off more than a third, down to 60 million tonnes. Last year, the world's third largest grain exporter harvested 97 million tons of wheat and exported 21.4 million tonnes.
The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) says the one per cent levy recently imposed on the farm-gate price of milk will have minimal impact on consumer prices even as it generates an estimated J$64 million in its first year to finance projects to help resuscitate the island's struggling dairy industry.
University and college application and enrolment timetables locally have been altered by economic conditions, as prospective students, faced with growing inability to pay, wait until the last minute to apply, and institutions, confronted by dwindling student numbers, continue eleventh-hour registration appeals.
Travellers used to getting a free wireless Internet connection on land are not willing to pay for one at 30,000 feet (9,000 metres). Wireless Internet service on airlines has not caught on, mostly because of the price.
Local distributorship Medical Disposables and Supplies Limited (MDS) has inked a deal as co-distributor for an Indian pharmaceutical manufacturing company, Dr Reddy's Laboratories Limited.
Operator of the Baskin Robbins franchise in Jamaica, Richard Burgher, is looking to expand the ice-cream operation locally through franchises now up for sale.
Pan Caribbean Financial Services Limited (PCFS) has seen a 38 per cent drop in profit, to J$231 million, resulting from a decline in net-interest income and in the second quarter ending June 30.
BlackBerrys still fly off the shelves. They still convey the message that their owners mean business - that they're people who are important enough to need email access all the time.
The crushing impact of high interest rates in the late 1990s forced the Jamaica Agricultural Development Foundation (JADF) to change gear from what was dictated by its original mandate to what Chief Executive Officer Vitus Evans describes as project development.
Like many young farmers in his position, Ricardo Hyman is grateful to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries' Young Farmers' Entrepreneurship Programme (YFEP) for providing him with the opportunity to start and sustain his own business.
Nothing, it seems, has gone right for Caribbean Cement Company Limited in the second quarter.
Last Thursday, James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, came out with a view that's gaining ground among members of the Federal Reserve Board.
An undisclosed party connected to First Jamaica Investment Limited has acquired 6.86 million of the company's shares, amounting to 2.26 per cent of the equity.
BP pumped cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, hoping to start sealing it for good a day after it forced a slow torrent of heavy mud down the broken wellhead and pushed the crude back to its underground source.
The Treasury Depart-ment said Wednesday that it has scaled back its annual borrowing capacity by US$232 billion since April and plans further gradual cuts in coming months.