Fast food price hike - Customers paying more at KFC, Burger King, Island Grill
It used to be that fast food was the answer when dining on a tight budget. Now, those budget meals are not only likely to pile on the pounds, but put the squeeze on patrons' pockets as well. While consumers were bracing for generally higher prices on goods and services...
Income tax roll reflects few $10m salaries - Economist expects more to shift from high brackets to avoid higher tax
The gains from the introduction of a graduated income-tax scheme will earn the Government little revenue, economist and university professor Damien King is suggesting in a swipe at the tax package announced December 23 by the Golding administration...
Proven to issue 200m shares in private placement Jan 20
Newly incorporated Proven Investments Limited (PIL) will be offering as many as 200 million shares in the company to investors in a private placement scheduled for January 20 to raise equity of up to US$20 million."Proven Investments Limited has filed...
Got it right this time ... after third try
Question: My 2003 Honda Stream motor car was stolen on November 9, 2008. As I was not in Jamaica, I had difficulty in getting a police report. The settlement of the claim was delayed as a result.
When things are slow, try studying - Metcalfe - Clovis Metcalfe, managing director of First
Caribbean International Bank Jamaica Limited, says a slow economy presents the perfect opportunity to pursue higher academic learning."Earning an MBA in a slow economy helps individuals broaden their knowledge...
EPA Technologies Limited ...Making money from maths and more
It took 10 years and $40 million to be completed, but on November 19, Elaine Peck launched the project on which she has spent much of her passion and all her resources — EPA Virtual Educator (EPAVE), which...
Workers upbeat as new owners revamp Duckenfield
There is a new spirit of industry and anticipation at the Duckenfield sugar factory in St Thomas, which the Government sold last year to Seprod and Fred M. Jones Estate...
Google, Apple spar in high-tech smartphone battle
The once-cuddly relationship between Google Inc and Apple Inc is morphing into a prickly power struggle as the ambitions and ideas of the technology trendsetters increasingly collide. The growing use of high-powered phones for Web surfing ...
Heated power play over climate change
To almost no one's surprise, the United Nations' (UN) two week-long climate-change conference held in December in Copenhagen ended without any binding agreement being reached on how to regulate global carbon emissions. Instead, after a face-off between...
From inside the markets
The continued uncertainty surrounding the details of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement may have contributed to the current apathy that dominated equity trading last week. Trading on the stock market was characterised by very low trading volumes...
String of investment bubbles
A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated the years from 2000 to 2009. And it looks like the next decade will be no different...
Managing your money and life
A CEO recently told me one of the greatest deterrents to staff productivity was the widespread financial problems among workers. Some had even taken out loans with so-called 'loan sharks' at rapacious interest rates....