Business
December 9, 2025
BOJ maintains policy rate at 5.75 per cent
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has announced it is holding its policy rate at 5.75 per cent per annum. It says during meetings on September 25 and 26, its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held…
December 9, 2025
Angela Huyue Zhang | A TikTok deal China will love
After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, president of the United States, Donald Trump, has now signed an executive order transferring the…
December 9, 2025
Authors triumph in copyright case against AI company
A federal judge on Thursday approved a US$1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to…
December 9, 2025
UN blacklists another 68 companies over Israeli settlements
The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli…
December 9, 2025
by Steven Jackson
National Rums get temporary relief in industry fight
Rum makers will return to court next February to battle over the definition of Jamaican rum, following a Supreme Court ruling that gives National Rums of Jamaica Limited, NRJ, temporary relief. On…
December 9, 2025
Fesco to add four more gas stations to network
Future Sources Energy Company Limited, which trades as Fesco, will add at least four new service stations to the network by December 2026. The investment will range from $700 million to $1 billion and…
December 9, 2025
R.A. Williams positioned to reverse contraction of profits, says CEO
R.A. Williams Distributors Limited expects that the investments made as groundwork for growth will soon start paying off in the form of returns and market share, in an assurance to shareholders that…
December 9, 2025
Oran Hall | The far-reaching effects of a weak stock market
Ordinary shares can be relied upon to yield very positive returns to investors over the long term, but, because stock markets are cyclical, there are periods when equities do not give positive returns…
December 9, 2025
Cedric Stephens | A new conversation on insurance
Concerned citizen John Mahfood put his money where his mouth is. He sponsored a half-page advertorial in this newspaper last Sunday to pose and answer a thought-provoking question: Can the Jamaican…