Musson 'serges' into chocolate business - Highgate ownership unresolved
Musson Jamaica Limited is still wrangling with Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation Inc over ownership of the Highgate brand, but the Desmond Blades operation, with the help of a sister company, has forged ahead with plans to launch into business...
Image rights protection for Jamaican stars
As with many aspects of our law, Jamaica's intellectual property statutes are rooted in United Kingdom legislation.Like the UK, we have statutes that protect copyright, designs, trade marks and patents. And, we look to the common law - the law...
Bonds: BOJ financing window a shield against speculators - analysts
With Jamaican bonds already under pressure from the global credit crisis, fears that they may also be target of speculators were among the reasons for Wednesday's central bank decision to open a special lending window to local financial institutions...
US$67 oil - OPEC to meet
OIL BRIEFLY plunged below US$69 a barrel Thursday, bringing its price to less than half its July record high after the government reported massive increases in US crude and gasolene supplies.In London, crude closed even lower below...
Wisynco co-brands with Ocean Spray
The Wisynco Group, whose aggressive marketing and distribution strategy helped make Jamaica, per capita, the market leader for Ocean Spray's cranberry juices, has added the Ocean Spray brand to its own line of purified water...
Jamaican stocks steady as global markets sink - Worries on US economy spread
Jamaica's stock market was fairly steady Thursday, ending trading down 0.09 per cent, or 94 points, as world markets fluctuated on news the United States economy was worsening. Home-grown companies per-formed well ahead of the market, with the All-Jamaican index...
Time to be decisive, cut back on size of gov't
EACH DAY the calls are getting stronger for the Government to take more decisive action in anticipation of the impact of the global meltdown on the Jamaican economy. Already, the manufacturing sector has indicated that they are beginning to experience a credit squeeze...
Trinidad says foreign reserves safe - Despite exposure to failed banks
Trinidad's central bank governor Ewart Wil-liams says the country's official reserves of US$8.5 billion are safe, although Lehman Brothers was one of external brokers managing its foreign assets portfolio...
GraceKennedy plans 60 money transfer outlets in UK
GraceKennedy says it expects to have up to five dozen Western Union money remittance outlets in Britain over the next year under the super agent agreement it signed with the American firm earlier this year.Grace has...
Commentary - A fix needed for presidential campaign, Wall Street
In the United States it is not only Wall Street that needs fixing. Consider this falsehood spreading across the internet: that an automaker is a sleeper for communist China and embroiled in an anti-American plot to topple it from dominance and leadership...
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