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American Express CEO’s compensation falls 61%
March 16, 2010
NEW YORK, United States The chief executive of American Express saw his pay package drop 61 per cent last year as the credit card company's profits na...
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Why can’t Jamaica grow? Lessons from Barbados
BY KEITH COLLISTER 
March 16, 2010
A little under one month ago, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) held a joint seminar with the world- renowned Stanford Graduate School o...
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S&P takes Greece off credit watch
March 16, 2010
LONDON, England THE Greek government won key backing from the Standard & Poor's credit rating agency for its efforts to dig out of a debt crisis that ...
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Business leaders, Wall Street seek to alter bill
March 16, 2010
WASHINGTON DC, United States - US financial institutions and their allies mobilised lobbyists and fueled their media campaigns yesterday in a swift re...
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JP lauches $10-m ad campaign to drive ripe banana sales
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JP lauches $10-m ad campaign to drive ripe banana sales
March 16, 2010
Firm looking to export regionally The Jamaica Producers (JP) Group last week launched a new ad campaign that it hopes will push up sales of ripe banan...
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China without Google: ‘a lose-lose scenario’
March 16, 2010
BEIJING, China - China without Google -- a prospect that looks increasingly likely -- could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service t...
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Gov’t may fail first IMF test
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March 16, 2010
GOVERNMENT will have to outperform by nearly $4 billion the original revenue target for the last two months of the current fiscal year if it hopes to ...
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US uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
March 16, 2010
ILLINOIS, United States - AS they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the US, investigat...
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‘No cash for food’
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March 13, 2010
Tell Claudienne Dear Claudienne I have seen your effectiveness in helping people to solve certain problems. Having made numerous calls to no avail I h...
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NCB rewards auto-dealers
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NCB rewards auto-dealers
March 13, 2010
Dennis Cohen (left),National Commercial Bank (NCB) deputy Group managing director and Bernadette Barrow (third left),NCB assistant general manager- Sm...
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Twin evils of debt and death haunt Jamaica — Alemanni
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Twin evils of debt and death haunt Jamaica — Alemanni
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March 13, 2010
IN a well timed address to the rotary club of Kingston last Thursday, Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU), Ambassador Marco Mazzochi Alemann...
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25 influential women in business
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25 influential women in business
March 13, 2010
Females across the globe last week celebrated International Women's Day in recognition of the gender's economic, political and social achievements. To...
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Trade Winds Citrus stares down challenges
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Trade Winds Citrus stares down challenges
March 13, 2010
TRADE Winds Citrus Limited (TWCL) is looking to overseas markets as it searches for new revenue sources that will help offset rising operational costs...
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Claro boss thrives on crises
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Claro boss thrives on crises
March 13, 2010
MEXICAN tycoon Carlos Slim, who has knocked Bill Gates from the top of the Forbes list of the world's billionaires, is famed for his lack of ostentati...
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Clarification
March 13, 2010
NIGold benefits are paid from the National Insurance Fund (NIF) and not the National Health Fund (NHF) as was stated in the article published on Sunda...
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TALKING TAX
March 13, 2010
Why do we pay taxes? EACH year as we approach the March 15 income tax due date, we repeatedly hear the question, "why do we pay taxes?" This question ...
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Gangster’s Paradise
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Gangster’s Paradise
March 13, 2010
Keeping your head down The issue pertaining to Wayne Chen's visa cancellation, has the higher elements of Jamaica's social order in a paroxysm of fren...
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My Debt Exchange – MDX
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March 13, 2010
The Sterling Report A few weeks ago the Government of Jamaica initiated the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) transaction, this was done as the debt structu...
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Things to consider before starting a business
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Things to consider before starting a business
March 10, 2010
Unlike her co-workers, Camille* had been ecstatic at the news of the closure of the company she had worked at for nearly 20 years. As she mentally cal...
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Long wait to know fate of Finsac Commission
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March 10, 2010
THE judicial review challenging retired Justice Boyd Carey's chairmanship of the commission of enquiry into the financial sector meltdown of the 1990s...
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Waging calmness: relationship building in business
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March 9, 2010
Business Communications RO THE world is battle-weary. Thanks to the wonderful world wide web we are now officially and firmly in the era of "everywher...
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Tax admin expands e-filing to include income tax payments
March 9, 2010
The Tax Administration on Monday expanded electronic filing of taxes by individuals and corporations to income tax payments. In a release, the tax aut...
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