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Despite opposition, China-Trinidad seal smelter deal

Despite opposition from environmental groups, Trinidad and Tobago and China have signed a multimillion-dollar agreement for the construction of a smelter plant in La Brea. China’s ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Huang Xing, said that [...]

Cuba to build US$75m resort – Partners with Qatar state property group

Cuba and Qatar signed an agreement Wednesday to build a $75 million, 450-room resort on a cay south of the island.The two parties will spend 14 months hammering out financing details for the five-star Gran Paraiso… View post: Cuba to build [...]

Limited shock to Jamaican companies, CaPRI finds

Jamaican think tank, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), has concluded that Jamaican businesses have only a small level of exposure to the global economic crisis.According to the CAPRI report on research findings published in April… Continued [...]

FSC tightening risk assessment for general insurers

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) is in the process of switching the methodology used to measure solvency levels of general insurance companies – from the minimum asset test (MAT) to a more risk-based approach, the minimum capital [...]

JCS: Tax cellphone talk, not computers

THE JAMAICA Computer Society (JCS) is lobbying government to roll back the general consump-tion tax on computers, saying similar revenues could be generated by increasing the cess instead on cellphone talkers.The JCS is proposing that government [...]
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