NCB Capital Markets to raise cash
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL Bank has announced plans for a $300 million preference share offer in its brokerage and money management subsidiary, NCB Capital Markets, saying that the move was a precursor to taking the company public.

Scarce summer jobs
BY THE time the summer solstice arrives on June 21 of each year, Jamaican university students would have been on holiday, some of them for almost a month. In the case of those who study in the United States of America, some of them would have finished...

Government and World Cup company held by nominees - Transfer just being done
NEARLY TWO years after it was formed to manage the Jamaica leg of Cricket World Cup - and having already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the project - Jamaica Cricket 2007 Ltd. is not yet formally in the...

Caribbean airlines unite for cricket
BRIDGETOWN (The Nation): ONE OF the legacies of the West Indies Cricket World Cup in 2007 could be the sustained cooperation of the Caribbean's four air carriers. This was indicated by chairman of LIAT, Jean Holder, one of the panellists...

New management to tackle Airbus woes
PARIS (AP): THE NEW management of Airbus got down to business Monday after a weekend shake-up at parent company EADS that forced out two top executives - but the headaches do not end there for the European plane maker.

MoBay getting more ICT space
REFURBISHING WORK on 24,000 square feet of factory space in the Montego Bay Free Zone will be converted into offices this fiscal year to facilitate the employment of 500 to 600 persons in the infor-mation and communications technology (ICT) industry.

Page ranking dispute takes Google to court
SEARCH ENGINE giant, Google Inc. defended its system of ranking web search results after Kinderstart.com filed a lawsuit after receiving a 'zero' ranking in its PageRank system and blocked the site.