MiPhone, Digicel at odds over towers
MiPhone and rival Digicel Jamaica are blaming each other for the breakdown of a reciprocal agreement brokered by government that allows telecommunication companies to share cell towers, with the Mexican company claiming that the Irish mobile operator was denying it access...
Four companies interested in 2.5 GHz spectrum - But only three licences available
The Spectrum Management Authority has got expressions of interest from at least four companies in its 2.5 gigahertz spectrum, one of them European, informed sources tell Wednesday Business. But only three licences are up for grabs...
Bill Clarke's last hurrah - Scotia ahead in profit race
Scotia Group Jamaica Limited continues to top the market in earnings, reporting big profits of $7.14 billion so far this year, according to its latest earnings report for the nine-month period ending July 31. The banking group, now in leadership transition...
After Beijing, Jamaica to explore sports tourism
Jamaica is to soon launch a new sport tourism drive to take advantage of the global coverage the island's athletes received for their record-breaking performances during the Beijing Olympics, according to tourism minister, Edmund Bartlett...
Golding says 'no' to Manning
Jamaica on Monday, again said an unequivocal 'no' to Patrick Manning's push for a political union among members of Caricom.Manning, on a five-nation tour to secure buy-in from Caricom partners to the proposed union between Trinidad and Tobago and three...
'Cheap water can't last forever' - Business group backs privatisation plan
A private sector group is backing St Lucia's move to privatise the Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO), though it accepts that the commodity will be more costly for residents as a result. "Why do you expect that you must get water at the same price today...
Barbados to modernise statistical services
The Government of Barbados will receive a US$5 million (BDS$10m) loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to modernise its statistical services, the Washington-based bank announced on the weekend.Barbados will match the loan with US$1.25...
The art of branding yourself
Image, packaging, branding - some familiar words that we hear every day; more surprisingly, these terms are not restricted to goods and services alone. They have become part and parcel of and a demand for the world of work. Branding, in layman terms...
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