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DUTTY MAN!

Taxi driver pleads guilty to raping, trafficking underage daughter and stepdaughter; gets accumulated 100-year sentence

Alicia Dunkley-Willis | Senior Reporter | dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:20 AM

DUTTY MAN!

News

‘Let us embrace this change’

Pryce urges patience as motor vehicle certification set to go fully digital

Jerome Williams | Reporter | williamsj@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:18 AM

‘Let us embrace this change’

Entertainment, ...

Da’Ville makes musical return

Singer resurfaces with Sunshine Days after 13-year hiatus

Shereita Grizzle | Observer Staff Reporter | grizzles@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:16 AM

Da’Ville

Business

Kremi hits $3b in sales, but cash tight and profits fall

Karena Bennett | Senior Business Reporter | bennettk@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:14 AM

Kremi hits $3b in sales, but cash tight and profits fall

Business

WOMEN, YOUTH POWER JOB BOOM

...but hidden slack shadows record 3.3% unemployment

DASHAN HENDRICKS Business Content Manager hendricksd@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:14 AM

Jamaica’s jobless rate falls to record low as women, youth power workforce gains

Business

Chester’s turns up heat on fried chicken market with new stores

Kellaray Miles | Reporter | milesk@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:13 AM

Chester’s turns up heat on fried chicken market with new stores

Business

Deposit Insurance Fund marches toward $50-billion mark

...now covers 96 per cent of deposit accounts in local banking system

Kellaray Miles | Reporter | milesk@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:12 AM

Deposit Insurance Fund

Cricket, ...

DOOMED TO FAIL

Dujon calls for structural overhaul in West Indies cricket following Sabina Park horror show

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

July 16 12:12 AM

‘It’s embarrassing!’

Business

Young Entrepreneurs plan road map to success

Alicia Roache Sunday Finance reporter roachea@jamaicaobserver.com

November 28, 2009

When faced with challenges in business, there are three choices: give-in, defend, or contend. The Young Entrepreneurs Association (YEA) is ensuring th...

Business

New domestic airline starts commercial operations on Friday

camilot

November 28, 2009

JAMAICA Air Shuttle will become the latest carrier to enter the domestic airline services market when it starts commercial passenger service on the Ti...

Business

Wayne Wray to join JTI?

November 28, 2009

FORMER First Global Bank (FGB) boss Wayne Wray is being tipped for a post within Government's investment and export promotion arm Jamaica Trade & Inve...

Business

Adding real value to your home

Julian Richardson | Online Content Manager | richardsonj@jamaicaobserver.com

November 28, 2009

An effective way to make your house more saleable is through home improvement. To help you gain an advantage in the ultra-competitive real estate mark...

Business

Dubai World’s restructuring may make Jamaican investments relatively attractive

BY KEITH COLLISTER

November 28, 2009

OVER the past couple of years, the new JLP government has faced an almost constant stream of bad economic and financial news. This bad news flow had b...

Business

No write-off for deceased woman’s debt

Claudienne Edwards | Writer | edwardsc@jamaicaobserver.com

November 28, 2009

Tell Claudienne Dear Claudienne, My sister who is now deceased bought a two-door no-frost refrigerator from the Courts branch in the Oasis Plaza Spani...

Business

Retirement Tourism — Time to get on board?

camilot

November 28, 2009

Over the course of the following weeks we will be running a series of five articles, contributed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, on the worldwide retiremen...

Business

Barita to list

Alicia Roache roachea@jamaicaobserver.com

November 26, 2009

After over 32 years in the business, Barita Investments is finally going public. The announcement was made on Wednesday at a Press Conference held at ...

Business

Remaining bullish about Jamaica’s fiscal situation

BY KEITH COLLISTER

November 26, 2009

On Wednesday, Scotia Capital's New York based analyst Joe Kogan, in a piece entitled "Jamaica: Last opportunity to move it or shake it", noted. "After...

Business

Bank of England secretly rescued RBS and HBOS

November 26, 2009

British Finance Minister Alistair Darling came out on Wednesday in defence of a highly controversial decision enabling the Bank of England to make hug...

Business

Scotia posts super profits of J$11 billion

Julian Richardson | Online Content Manager | richardsonj@jamaicaobserver.com

November 26, 2009

ScotiaGroup Jamaica yesterday reported net income for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2009 of $11.1 billion, an increase of $1.7 billion or 19 per c...

Business

Mark Shields favours Ellington as next Police Commissioner

BY AL EDWARDS

November 26, 2009

Former Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields is supporting Acting Police Commissioner Owen Ellington's bid to succeed Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin as ...

Business

Chris Williams hails Wheby’s public service to Jamaica

BY AL EDWARDS

November 26, 2009

The managing director of NCB Capital Markets Christopher Williams took the opportunity earlier this week to laud Grace Kennedy's Chief Operating Offic...

Business

Police probe Vatican bank transactions

November 26, 2009

Suspects money laundering News reports in Italy say investigators are scrutinising millions of euros worth of Vatican bank transactions to see if they...

Business

Is it really the interest rates, Minister?

BY ALICIA ROACHE roachea@jamaicaobserver.com

November 26, 2009

The Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw has been on a public campaign to encourage banks to lower interest rates. On Wednesday, tha...

Business

Jamaica’s economic situation will get better – Scotia chief economist

BY AL EDWARDS

November 26, 2009

Jamaica's woeful economic plight has been the subject of much discussion as the country waits with bated breath for the IMF to throw it a lifeline tha...

Business

Caribbean to ask UK’s Brown to ease airfare tax

November 26, 2009

Caribbean leaders say they intend to challenge British Prime Minister Gordon Brown over a new airfare tax during a summit this weekend. Caribbean Comm...

Business

LSE first-half net profit drops 40 per cent

November 26, 2009

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) PLC posted a 40 per cent drop in first-half earnings on Wednesday on the back of lower trading and warned that market ...

Business

No cash flow problem, says Barbados PM

November 26, 2009

NO NEED to worry; those delayed tax refunds in Barbados will come eventually. Some Government departments in that country may not be settling their pa...

Business

St Lucia minister is Caribbean Travel Personality of the Year

November 26, 2009

St Lucia's Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Senator Allen Chastanet has been named the Caribbean Travel Personality of the Year. He won the hono...

Business

Caribbean needs more FDI

November 26, 2009

Two Caricom leaders have made a pitch for more investment in the region, at the Commonwealth business forum in Trinidad. Prime Ministers David Thompso...

Business

Lobby against UK passenger tax to enter new phase

November 26, 2009

Jamaica's Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says that as the region continues to lobby for changes to the controversial UK Airline Passenger Duty (A...