Pioneers win science award
FIRE STREAM Media Distribution System (FSMDS), an integrated visual and data application suitable for mass communications, was recently named as the winning entry in the inaugural Innovations in Science and Technology Award, established...
Risk boss gets global portfolio
JMMB'S CHIEF Risk Officer, Aaron X. Hou, has been appointed as the new regional director of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), Jamaica Chapter. The GARP is a non-profit independent association of risk management practitioners...
'Wealth-creating policies needed'
THE JAMAICA Labour Party has proposed a comprehensive set of wealth creating policies as "the only sure antidote to fiscal tightness, joblessness and the need for greater expenditure on social programmes."
United States growth prospects weaken
CHICAGO (Reuters): U.S. ECONOMIC growth could soften in 2006 but inflation should decline and the jobless rate drift lower as well, according to participants at a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago conference released on Monday.
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