JPS's
monthly $4b burden - Revenue pressured by fuel, profits plunge August 22, 2008 -
Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) delivered less electricity
to Jamaican homes in the second calendar quarter ending June, but spent
nearly twice as much to power the island as it did a year ago, its latest
earnings report shows.
Banks
safe after forex fallout August 22, 2008 - Jamaica's central bank says it sees no sign of impact on the island's
economy on the apparent collapse of a number of so-called alternative
investment schemes.
Rio
Bueno gets first cargo ship call - Tank-Weld to spend US$40m more
on port August 22, 2008 - Construction company, Tank-Weld, which this month launched
into a new sphere of business as a port operator, had its first
ship call at its $2.8 billion Rio Bueno facility in Trelawny by
a Chinese vessel bringing steel from the Asian country.
The French philosopher Voltaire once said that 'doctors are men
who prescribe medicine of which they know little to human beings
of whom they know nothing'.
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Caribbean
Rhodes Scholar to battle UWI August 22, 2008 - Luke Browne, the 2008 Carib-bean Rhodes Scholar has hired a team
of lawyers and is hunkering down for a legal fight with the University
of the West Indies (UWI) over whether he ought to have been given a higher
class of degree.
C&W Caribbean
marshals senior team - Appoints vice-chairman August 22, 2008 - Cable & Wireless Carib-bean, based in Barbados, has appointed
five new senior executives and retained two others who now form chief
executive officer Richard Dodd's team, one of whom will also hold a seat
on the company's board.
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US firms bid millions to drill
Western Gulf August
22, 2008 -
Energy companies have placed US$487.3 million in winning bids
for the right to drill in the western Gulf of Mexico, knowing that they
may get a chance later to also explore in other areas that have been off
limits for decades.
British
Airways, American Airlines, Iberia ink revenue-sharing deal August 15, 2008 -
British Airways PLC, American Airlines and Spain's Iberia SA said
Thursday they have signed a revenue-sharing deal that - if approved by
regulators - will see the trio set prices together and share seat capacity
on transatlantic flights.