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Jamaica braces for post-embargo Cuba – Fix education, housing to compete, says Issa

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With Cuba having earned almost a billion dollars more than Jamaica from tourism last year, tourism industry officials are not forecasting any major fallout for the local industry, should the United States lift its 47-year-old trade embargo against [...]

Italian firm wants Frome – Tate & Lyle hovers in the background

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An Italian sugar company, Eridania Sadam, wants to buy Jamaica’s Frome sugar factory – a facility that was once in the portfolio of the United Kingdom-based Tate and Lyle, with which Eridania has a partnership for the marketing of [...]

No harm from dividend tax – JSE

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The Jamaica Stock Exchange says it is unlikely to be negatively affected by the Government’s decision to tax dividends paid to to non-Jamaican residents or corporations.Moreover, the JSE says, bilateral taxation between Jamaica and other [...]

Tax may fuel illegal petrol trade – police

1119 days ago | 0 comment
Government’s imposition of an $8.75 per-litre cess on petroleum products is likely to trigger a slight increase in the illegal fuel trade, a senior cop has said.Senior Superintendent Donovan Graham, who heads the St Andrew… Read [...]

Stocks end higher as Fed sees recession easing

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NEW YORK (AP): The Fed confirmed what Wall Street has already concluded: the United States recession is starting to ease.Federal Reserve policymakers said at the end of a two-day meeting that, while the economy is still receding, the pace of [...]
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