PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - Richard Bernal: Doyen of commercial diplomacy' - 'I speak loudly and I speak often.'
Tall and solidly built with a clear, ringing voice, it is not easy to miss Richard Bernal.Neither in a casual social setting nor at the trade negotiating table. "I speak loudly and I speak often," he quipped. Bernal was referring to his efforts over the years to build awareness....
Bottle shortage keeps Mountain Peak coffee off the shelves - Turbulence hits Salada's Guatemalan supplier
Coffee company Salada Foods Jamaica Limited has run into problems with the suppliers of the bottles for its Mountain Peak instant coffee, and consequently has been unable to supply the grocery market over the Christmas holidays.Later, it emerged that ground coffee was also affected...
NCB 'stifling' under corporate loan restrictions - Latibeaudiere, other bankers say no to easing regulations
A TOP Jamaican bank has said that excessive central bank oversight is hampering its move to build business as a deal broker and to position itself as the go-to firm for the structuring of big projects to be executed in Jamaica by overseas investors....
PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR - Ambassador Richard Bernal: Caricom's deal broker
Early in the morning of December 17, a bleary-eyed Richard Bernal sat in the conference room of a Barbadian hotel signing a ream of documents.More than 1,000 pages in all. In duplicate. "That's that," Bernal said as he affixed his signature to the last set of pages...
Pulling small business from the shadows - A new SBAJ emerges
The Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) has always had passion. What it has lacked is persistent lobby and linkages with groups through which its own views and peculiar problems could be amplified. That is changing, partly because Errol Chin-Mook and his team...
Neal and Massy vows to defend reputation - Regulator declares BS&T bid illegal, bars take-up until January 31
Regulator declares BS&T bid illegal, bars take-up until January 31An order by the Barbados Securities Commission (BSC) barring Neal and Massy Holdings Limited from trading in or taking up any shares in the Barbados Shipping and Trading Company...
Jamaica's women and family-owned businesses - Study detects 4,600 operations
A SURVEY of family and women-owned businesses (FWOBs) was conducted by a consortium of Women Business Owners and the Jamaica Conference Board, research arm of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, and published earlier in 2007. The study was executed by the Mona School of Business...
COMMENTARY - Political vision: The challenge for Jamaica in 2008
Everyone knows India is one of the likely next superpowers - at least so the globalised hype tells us. Yet this kind of positive thinking about India's prospects was not always the prevalent view. Indeed this widespread or prevailing thought may not reflect the reality ....
German economy expected to cool in '08
Germany's economy minister and a leading economic institute said Wednesday they expect 2008 growth to cool amid rising food and oil prices and fallout from the United States (U.S.) subprime mortgage loan crisis. Economy Minster Michael Glos was quoted...
Cold flurries worry citrus growers
A BLAST of cold air that brought flurries to the Sunshine State yesterday seems to have spared citrus crops from the major damage that growers had feared. Citrus industry officials believe the state's groves escaped major damage, because it didn't get as cold ...
LETTER - Lopsided coffee niche market
THE EDITOR, Sir: The reality of Jamaica's present marketing arrangements for coffee is one in which the exportable is a primary raw material in the form of green beans.The greatest threat inherent in this kind of arrangement is that such a rudimentary ...
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