Flow angers cable operators
FLOW, THE integrated telecommunications provider that is spending upwards of US$100 million to enter the Jamaican market, says that it is in acquisition talks with 18 local cable television providers, but rejects that its aim is to push small players...
GraceKennedy selling Medi-Grace
GRACEKENNEDY LIMITED is selling its Medi-Grace Limited subsidiary to Smith Russell & Company Limited, said John Mahfood, chief operating officer of Grace-Kennedy's retail and trading division in a statement.
No funds flowing from PM's small business pipeline
NEARLY THREE months after Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced her plan to use $1 billion from the National Insurance Fund (NIF) to help finance the country's struggling micro and small businesses, the labour and social security ministry...
Jamaican companies missing out on free money
ONLY THREE Jamaican companies have so far got loans from the US$16 million revolving loan scheme launched by the CARICOM Trade Support Programme (CTS) of Trinidad and Tobago in 2004.
Antigua battling United States Internet gambling crackdown
GENEVA (AP): THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) on Wednesday set up a panel to investigate whether U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling comply with international trade rules. The Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda...
CARICOM to tighten Dominican Republic trade ties
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC): THE CARIBBEAN Community (CARICOM) is seeking to establish service trading negotiations with the Dominican Republic, CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington has said.
Power competition for dummies
ONE HAS to turn back but few pages in the book of Jamaica's history to learn how competition in a utility can bring immense benefit to the consumer. I refer, of course, to Cable and Wireless, the one-time monopoly, whose rates dropped...
Jamaica's volatile love-hate relationship with Mirant
JAMAICA'S RELATIONSHIP with the energy company that controls most of Jamaica's power source, could be likened to a love-hate relationship that has been very volatile in its short time-span. Now that Mirant has signalled that it plans to end...
Grace, Producers and DB&G planning share buy-backs
INVESTORS TRADITIONALLY focus on stock price appreciation (capital gains) and dividends as the primary sources of gains on equity investments, but there are several other useful, and often overlooked, ways to increase returns from equities.
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