Oil prices fall sharply as Gustav weakens
Oil prices tumbled to below US$111 a barrel on Monday as weather forecasters said Hurricane Gustav was weakening as it advanced towards Louisiana. A stronger dollar also helped to reverse the course for oil prices.Still, precautions due to Gustav...
Terrence Brooks is new operations manager at Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ)
It's all in the family. Terrence Brooks' father, Rudolph, also known as 'Branx', spent 42 years at Port Bustamante. A legend at the port, Rudolph Brooks led a gang of workers called 'Warriors', the fastest group when it came to discharging cargo at Port Bustamante...
Commerzbank buys rival ... 9,000 jobs to go
Commerzbank's purchase of German rival Dresdner Bank AG will cost thousands of jobs, but analysts said Monday it will benefit insurer Allianz SE, which agreed to sell Dresdner on the weekend in a €9.8 billion (US$14.44 billion) deal....
Narrow miss for Delta, Russian craft
Two airliners were one minute from colliding when one of the planes turned away from the other over the Caribbean last week, federal authorities said last Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it was investigating an incident...
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