Windalco investing $3b in lime plant at Kirkvine
Windalco, the owners of two alumina plants in Jamaica, announced yesterday that it will build a new chemical lime facility here to meet the refineries' requirement of 10,000 tonnes a year. Windalco said that it will spend an estimated US$45 million...
Exports grow 31% over nine months - Statin
Imports grew at a significantly slower pace than exports in the first nine months of 2006, but the value of government goods bought from abroad was more than triple the value of the products Jamaica sold to foreign countries....
Two years later, JSE's transformation still a work in progress
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) continues to work through ticklish issues of how it will be regulated and assignment of share capital when it sheds its not-for-profit status and goes public - a process unlikely to be completed this year.
Trinidad telecom sues C&W over network access
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters): Internet provider Cari-access has sued Cable & Wireless and local regulators in two Caribbean nations, claiming it lost more than $65 million because it was denied access to telecommunications networks.
Digicel announces 100% subscriber growth in 2006 - Signs 1 million customers in Haiti
Digicel Group, the dominant mobile phone company in the region, said yesterday its customer base had climbed above four million phone users in 2006, representing 100 per cent subscriber growth last year...
Consumer confidence slips, but businesses upbeat on profits
Business confidence in the economy remained largely unchanged at the end of last year, but consumers, with the exception of Kingston residents, were less optimistic about their future. The Index of Consumer Confidence recorded a decline...
Chávez wants greater presidential powers
As Venezuela embarked on another six years under Hugo Chávez, the president announced plans to nationalise power and telecom companies and make other bold changes that will concentrate more power in his hands....
Regional stock market integration to be key issue at JSE conference
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) will open its second annual conference today in Montego Bay and JSE general manager, Marlene Street, says that the conference is still very much focused on how the regional stock exchanges...
Closing stock market indices
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters): Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday. LONDON - Britain's benchmark index ended just inside positive territory as a robust banking sector offset a heavy fall...
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