Manufacturing is a devastated sector - Samuda
KARL SAMUDA, Opposition Spokesman on Industry and Commerce, lambasted the Government's handling of the manufacturing industry while speaking to members of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) on November 19 at their Duke Street headquarters.

VistaPrint opens contact centre in MoBay
VISTAPRINT, the world's leading online supplier of short run, full-colour printing to small businesses and consumers, officially opened a customer contact centre in the Montego Bay Free Zone on Wednesday November 19.

Slight rise in profits for Hardware & Lumber
DOUGLAS ORANE, Chairman of Hardware and Lumber Limited has announced the financial results for the nine-month period ended 30th September 2003.

Rise in demand for small business loans - Companies turn to credit unions
THERE HAS been a consistent complaint in the small business community that they cannot get decent interest rates or service from commercial banks.

Ja's economic challenge - PART 1
Earlier this week the CEO of Paymaster and chairperson of the Tourism Product Development Company, Audrey Marks, addressed the Rotary Club of Kingston with the theme of bolstering the country's tourism product...

FirstCaribbean, Sandals in visa card project
WESTERN BUREAU: FIRSTCARIBBEAN International Bank, which has 90,000 regional customers, this week launched its exciting new Visa Getaway Give-away Promotion, which is geared towards rewarding loyal customers and boosting inter-regional travel.

Demand for sorrel gives farmers boost
LONG SEEN as a Christmas drink, sorrel has traditionally been a seasonal crop for farmers. But recent successes with sorrel chutneys and jams and Big City Brewing Company's sorrel-themed shandy, Yardy Shandy is changing that.