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
Exxon Mobil Corp’s profit declined in its first quarter as natural gas prices fell and industry refining margins dropped. The energy company earned US$8.22 billion, or US$2.06 per share, for th...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he’s hopeful the Federal Reserve can bring down inflation without causing a recession, but wouldn’t rule out more troubling possibilities, such as stagflat...
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...
The NCB Financial Group plans to raise $5 billion in its additional public offer (APO) with the option to upsize to $7.5 billion. “NCB Financial has placed considerable and deliberate focus on ...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240426/ncb-issues-5-billion-apo
Southwest Airlines will limit hiring and stop flying to four airports as it copes with weak financial results and delays in getting new planes from Boeing. Both Southwest and American Airlines re...
How about turning a car’s front bucket seats 180 degrees so they face the rear seats and extending out a table so the occupants can play cards or eat a meal? Or a 43-inch (109 centimetre) scree...
Shares in United Kingdom-based mining giant Anglo American surged Thursday after it received a £31 billion (US$39 billion) takeover approach from rival BHP Billiton, a deal that would create the...
Business executive Gary Barrow will become the next head of Wigton Windfarm Limited in the newly created post of chief executive officer, starting May 6. Barrow, whose last job was with power uti...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240426/wigton-taps-former-jps-exec-new-ceo
Violence lurks in nearly all of Latin America’s major cities. Even capitals that have traditionally been considered peaceful are coming to resemble hotspots such as Reynosa, Tijuana, Port-au-Pr...
The Guyana government said on Monday that it has signed an agreement with Reunion Gold Corporation aimed at establishing stable fiscal and operating conditions for the Oko West gold project. The ...
Jamaica’s aviation regulator wants to develop a master plan that addresses expected passenger growth, the dearth of local operators, and the impact of aircraft such as drones, the technology ar...
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240426/master-plan-aviation-sector