The United States Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American d...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240501/new-era-ganja
Kristalina Georgieva’s reappointment as managing director of the International Monetary Fund is a welcome development, but it also highlights a major flaw in the IMF’s governance structure. I...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240501/ngaire-woods-imf-chose-right-leader-wrong-way
This year’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the follow-up United Nations Forum on Financing for Development, have put international tax cooperation hi...
Portland JSX Limited, a fund that invests in privately held companies in Jamaica and Latin America, has slipped deeper into losses that were nine times worse than a year ago. The fund’s annual ...
On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board. A quarter-mile ahead, the truck’s sensors spotted a trash can blocking ...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240501/future-near-self-driving-trucks
In the not-too-distant future, automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all new passenger vehicles in the United States, a requirement that the government says will save hundreds...
Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM, but when it was almost his turn, the cash ran out. He angrily hopped on his ...
The world’s nations finished a round of negotiations early Tuesday on a treaty to end plastic pollution and made more progress than they have in three prior meetings. Coming into Ottawa, many f...
Smarting from a loss of business occasioned by a dip in construction project starts and lower demand for food-grade inputs, chemicals and lubes supplier Paramount Trading is looking to lubricants...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240501/paramount-pry-new-growth-lubes-manufacturing
Government supporters of offshore wind-energy projects in New Jersey and New York are trading blows with opponents in some shore towns who say many vacationers and local residents don’t want to...
Who assumes the risks when a vehicle is placed in the custody of an employee or agent of the Island Traffic Authority, ITA, to be tested to determine its roadworthiness and facilitate the issuing...
A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay US$250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that long-standing practices by real estate brokerages...
There are several types of life insurance policies to meet the wide-ranging needs of the population. Some give permanent coverage, and some give coverage for a specified period, but they all give...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240428/oran-hall-life-insurance-policy-options
Your team has pulled together an inspiring strategic plan. It has both short-term and long-term components and has the power to upend your industry. But in a matter of weeks, your aspirations sud...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240428/francis-wade-making-right-assumptions
The United States government’s auto safety agency is investigating whether last year’s recall of Tesla’s Autopilot driving system did enough to make sure drivers pay attention to the road. ...
Economics has always had a strange and much-debated relationship with money. For a long time, economists – including Nobel laureates like Merton Miller and Franco Modigliani – regarded money ...
The cities that some 4.4 billion people call home are increasingly at risk of catastrophic climate-driven events. Rising sea levels and flooding threaten coastal megacities like New York City and...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240428/nixon-saintil-ai-holds-key-resilient-cities
Tropical Battery Company Limited will turn to the stock market to raise more equity later this year amid plans to continue growing the company. Tropical Battery, which went public in 2020 and is ...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240428/tropical-battery-raise-more-funds-stock-market
When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced at the start of the pandemic in 2020, she suddenly noticed ads for an app called EarnIn. “You know how they get you — the algorithms — li...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240428/emergence-earn-pay-apps
London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you would expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intellig...