05242012Headline:

Negotiation by video – BOJ governor says fully engaged in IMF talks, has no plans to quit

1044 days ago | 0 comment
Bank of Jamaica Derick Latibeaudiere on Tuesday rejected as “laughable” thinly veiled suggestions that his absence from talks under way in Washington with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was indicative of any sort of rift with [...]

FINSAC enquiry delayed

1057 days ago | 0 comment
The Commission of Enquiry into the operations of the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) failed to get off the ground yesterday, as previously promised by Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw. In closing the Budget [...]

Jamaica unwavering on offshore centre plan – Project funds grow seven-fold in new Budget

1141 days ago | 0 comment
Jamaica will push ahead with its plan to establish Jamaica as an international financial services centre to capture a piece of the lucrative offshore market within the Caribbean, notwithstanding a renewed crusade by rich countries to clamp down [...]

CLICO collapse threatens to bring down Trinidad finance minister – Corruption probe sought against minister, central banker – Nunez-Tesheira to…

1154 days ago | 0 comment
Corruption probe sought against minister, central banker Nunez-Tesheira to explain interest in Duprey companies in Parliament todayLinda Hutchinson-Jafar, Business WriterTrinidad and Tobago’s Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira, under [...]

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti turned 90 this week; happy birthday!

1155 days ago | 0 comment
I remember being 19 and a poet and coming out to the Bay area to see a college friend who moved here. She took me to City Lights Books and I was in awe of the bookstore that published Ginsberg and others; my glimpse of Lawrence Ferlinghetti [...]
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