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Jamaica Gleaner Business
published: Sunday | September 16, 2007

Rentals keep commercial real-estate market buoyant - Few properties available for purchase.
The commercial real- estate market remains buoyant, characterised by strong demand, local realtors say, but with available space running low; much of the activity is in rentals.

JAS lobbying for $300m self-insurance scheme

The frequency of disasters and resulting damage to agriculture has prompted the main farmer's lobby to look a financing for recovery.

Summer slide of the dollar - $70 and falling, despite BoJ interventions

Susan GordonBusiness ReporterThe Jamaican dollar has lost more than four per cent of its value year to date, but the decline, while steady, only caught wide attention after the currency shot through the...

Grain shortage bites - Corn, wheat supplies running low

Nations like Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Cuba have icy diplomatic ties with Washington but they do not let politics stand in the way of importing competitively-priced food or feed ingredients from the United States.

Securing retirement income from electronic scammers

Hundreds of thousands of offers, many way too good to be true, are crawling through mail slots and intoour email, cellphones and BlackBerrys.The spotlight has now hit scams that take advantage of older investors.Scammers don't discriminate by age.They..

PepsiCo to make low-cal Gatorade drink

PepsiCo Inc., the nation's second-biggest soft drink company, is adding a new low-calorie version of Gatorade and a bottled water with caffeine and vitamins to its line-up of non-carbonated drinks.

Broker demand pushes Jamaican currency above $70

Many prophecies have failed to come true in recent days, one of which was that the stock market would rallystrongly as soon as a new government took charge of national affairs.

Sugar under threat - EU has new arrangement for new market

As this was being written, meetings in Brussels of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of nations to determine their response to the European Commission's proposals on the future of the sugar were still under way.

Putting Jamaica first (Part II): A vision of a new beginning

Ireland has made a truly impressive turnaround, earning itself the nickname 'Celtic tiger'.





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