American firm to invest US$30m in green energy plant The Gleaner | Sabrina Gordon, Business Reporter | American energy firm GreenRG Management LLC, which last year got the go-ahead from Cabinet to set up business in Jamaica, said it will be investing some US$30 million (J$2.6 billion) to finance a plant to manufac...
Blue to expand Shell network The Gleaner | Steven Jackson, Business Reporter | Blue Equity LLC is now focused on integrating new asset Shell gas operator Cool Petroleum Holdings into the group, and says it will be expanding the network of gas stations nationwide. | The private equity firm a...
Food exporters not eager to borrow The Gleaner | Avia Collinder, Business Writer | Local members of the food-exporting industry are yet to take up any of the J$100-million loan fund offered by the Government of Jamaica through the EXIM Bank to upgrade and which was put in place in September 2011....
Ross urges continuity in Jamaican economic programme The Gleaner | Marcella Scarlett, Business Reporter | International financial analyst Carl Ross believe the Jamaican economy is on the mend and that to solve the financial problems policymakers need only implement measures already in place. | Ross, the managing d...
Jamaica is open for business The Gleaner | Marcella Scarlett, Business Reporter | Mark Linehan, chief executive officer of Digicel Jamaica, is selling the idea of Jamaica as an excellent place to do business, citing the performance of his company in its decade of operation. | "Jamaica is no...
Whip farm thieves, says Grant The Gleaner | Christopher Serju, Gleaner Writer | THE TIME is well overdue for judges to crack the whip in order to arrest the rampant farm theft which has plagued Jamaican farmers for years, leaving many destitute while others continue to enjoy the benefits of ...
Jamaica to get largest Caribbean solar farm The Gleaner | The Toronto, Canada-based Solamon Energy Corp says it plans to build the largest solar power plant in the Caribbean. | The solar company said the programme, to be built in Jamaica, will cost in the region of CDN$450 million (US$444.2 million). | Wh...
New Jamaica gov't launches emergency jobs program that was centerpiece of its manifesto Orlando Sentinel KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica's month-old government on Wednesday launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of its winning election campaign. | The government formed by the People's National Party said so...
New CEO for Digicel in Haiti The Boston Globe | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-Haiti's biggest employer has named a new chief executive to run Digicel, the mobile phone company announced Wednesday. | The Jamaica-based private company is bringing in Damian Blackburn to replace Maarten Boute, who will be l...
An independent Jamaica is everyone's business The Gleaner | THE EDITOR, Sir: | WHY THE major worry over PM Simpson Miller's determination to "initiate the process of detachment from the monarchy to become a republic?" To quote the late, great crooner Sam Cooke: "It been a looong time comin' ..." Some seem t...
Green Market Café - Taking brunch up a notch The Gleaner | Nashauna Drummond, Lifestyle Coordinator | The Wyndham Kingston Hotel has now turned Sunday into a 'market day'. Last Sunday, a few specially invited guests were summoned to break bread at their new restaurant, Green Market Café. Open daily, its on...
New Jamaica gov't launches emergency jobs program that was centerpiece of its manifesto Orlando Sentinel KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica's month-old government on Wednesday launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of its winning election campaign. | The government formed by the People's National Party said so...
New CEO for Digicel in Haiti The Boston Globe | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-Haiti's biggest employer has named a new chief executive to run Digicel, the mobile phone company announced Wednesday. | The Jamaica-based private company is bringing in Damian Blackburn to replace Maarten Boute, who will be l...
Jamaica launches emergency jobs initiative The Tribune San Luis Obispo | Jamaica's month-old government on Wednesday launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of its winning election campaign. | The government formed by the People's National Party said some 700 jobless people will be...
Jamaica launches emergency jobs initiative The Miami Herald | KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica's month-old government on Wednesday launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of its winning election campaign. | The government formed by the People's National Party said some 700 j...
Jamaica's opposition party wins big in elections STL Today | Jamaica's opposition capitalized on discontent over the economy to return to power Thursday, as voters gave the country's first female leader a second chance to govern the island. | Supporters of former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, 66, shimmied and shouted in the capital, Kingston, as they heard that the center-right government of Prime ...
