JPS profits hit $1.1 billion
THE JAMAICA Public Service Company third quarter results (as at September 30) were recently released, revealing a year-to-date net profit attributable to shareholders of $1.1 billion. This translates into a 6.6 per cent annualised return on equity...

Rubber-stamp boards (Pt II)
THERE ARE three kinds of corporate boards on which directors are called to serve. All are viewed through the owner-manager prism. The legal responsibility is the same in all three but the ability to effect change is quite different in each.

LOJ Group profits spike
THE LOJ Group produced net profits after taxes, attributable to stockholders, of $1.6 billion for the nine months to September 30, 2005. This was 72 per cent better than the $930 million recorded for the same period in 2004.

No to changes in Legal Profession Act - Cornwall Bar
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CORNWALL Bar Association (CBA) is objecting to two of the provisions in the bill to amend the Legal Profession Act, which is to be tabled in Parliament soon.

Ja to become Net leader
JAMAICA IS set to move one step closer next week to establishing high-speed Internet access through long-heralded fibre-optic technology, according to Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell.

This is none of your business!
Question: A taxi slammed into a car driven by my wife on May 13. She was six months pregnant and lost the child some time later. The taxi was overtaking a line of at least six stationary vehicles. She was on her way to drop our two kids off at school.

WEEK ON THE WEB - Voting via the Internet
ALTHOUGH FRANCE, Britain and the United States have conducted pilot Internet voting programmes, the Baltic state of Estonia recently became the first country to have Internet voting on a national level.