Films to bring in $600m this year
JAMAICA'S FILM industry is on track to meet its target for the year, seemingly not affected by the slowdown in the tourism industry with which it enjoys a symbiotic relationship.
Pulse to take on Carib
AFTER CONSOLIDATING its operations, diversifying its products beyond model management and introducing a slate of other cutting edge initiatives to build its brand and promote the regional fashion industry, Pulse Investments Limited...
'There' s a need for African reconnection'
JAMAICAN-BORN British businessman Norman 'Bunny' Barnett wants more economic cohesiveness among black people, particularly Jamaicans and others living overseas.
Cruise industry joins US passport battle
CARIBBEAN CRUISE ship operators say new United States passport rules will damage the industry. In December 2004, the U.S. state department mandated that all U.S. citizens, Mexicans, Canadians and Bermudans travelling to the Caribbean...
Double-digit inflation main risk to Gov't targets
CENTRAL BANK Governor Derek Latibaudiere, at his quarterly monetary policy press conference on Wednesday, 10th August 2005, confirmed what many local analysts had already projected - namely that "there was absolutely no chance...
Basil Phillips has entrepreneurship in the blood
BASIL PHILLIPS, owner of Phil's Hardware in Spanish Town, was more resourceful than the average person even as a youngster. But success did not seem likely when he was born in 1947 in rural St. Andrew...
Ja must remain bankable
JAMAICA IS a heavily indebted country, with the national debt being approximately 140 per cent of the country's annual GDP. Any enterprise which is carrying such a heavy debt burden must demonstrate a sustained commitment...
Managing communications in a crisis
HISTORY WAS created recently by the arrival of named hurricanes, in July, regarded as early in what we have come to term the 'Hurricane Season'. Judging from the long lines which could be seen winding into every plaza with a hardware store...
Petrocaribe deal could cost Trinidad $40 billion
ALTHOUGH PETROTRIN stands to lose substantial revenue should other Caribbean countries take up Venezuela's Petrocaribe offer, the company's executive chairman, Malcolm Jones, is not a worried man.
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