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St Ann honours Gleaner-featured entrepreneur

The St Ann Homecoming and Heritage Committee recently honoured one of the parish’s young entrepreneurs, Marvin Gooden, head of a wine-making company based in Ocho Rios. Gooden came to public attention following an article in The Gleaner [...]

Should Shaw go? – Analysts have mixed views on whether the finance minister should resign

Finance Minister Audley Shaw is coming under increasing pressure as Jamaica faces what is widely accepted as one of its worst economic challenges since Independence. With several questions being asked, even before he was given control of the [...]

Fed gathers to take US economy’s pulse

With the United States (US) economy turning a corner, Federal Reserve policymakers will consider whether some programmes intended to ease the recession and stem the financial crisis should be extended. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues [...]

Cement waiver upheld by CCJ – TCL ‘welcomes clarity’ of CET suspensions

Trinidad Cement Company (TCL), the parent of seven firms involved in the production and sale of cement in the Caribbean, says it welcomes the clarification of the Common External Tariff (CET) suspension process within the region… Read [...]

Carib Cement sales grow as exports climb – Threatens to sue over local market share

Still facing the prospect of further competition from imports, monopoly cement producer Caribbean Cement Company Limited’s domestic sales slumped in the June quarter but were offset by cement and clinker exports… Read more from the [...]
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