Rural Water Supply Limited, poor accountability
Carib Engineering Corporation Limited (CEC), started April 1983, is wholly owned by the government and was set up to implement the Yallahs Pipeline Project that was meant to be the first phase of the Blue Mountain Water Supply...
Convert banana, cane lands to other crops, says Hall - Sees large-scale farms as answer to food crisis
A leading Jamaican businessman is suggesting that the Caribbean tackle the emerging food crisis by converting lands previously used for banana and sugarcane into the production of other crops. Dr Marshall Hall, a noted expert on bananas, also suggested...
US$500m hunger fund for region
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced a US$500 million package Tuesday to ease the impact of increasing food prices in Latin America and the Caribbean, where 71 million people who live in extreme poverty face hunger.Each country will...
Pulse rights issue oversubscribed
Kingsley Cooper, chairman of Pulse Investments Limited, said Thursday that the company's renounceable rights issue which closed Monday was oversubscribed by more than two million shares, but that the take-up was confined to the initial target.
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