Business

Executive director of Fair Trading Commission David Miller.
22 Apr, 2026 0

FTC staff recommends clearing Observer-Gleaner joint venture

The Fair Trading Commission’s (FTC) staff has raised no objection to a proposed joint venture to print the Jamaica Observer and The Gleaner at a central location under a jointly owned entity. The…
Business
22 Apr, 2026 0

Confidence results mixed for first quarter 2026

Consumer and business confidence in Jamaica delivered mixed results in the first quarter of 2026. Households recovered some ground lost after Hurricane Melissa, but businesses became more cautious as…
Business
22 Apr, 2026 0

Tim Cook will step down as Apple CEO and hand reins over to the iPhone maker’s hardware leader

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from the job that he inherited from the late Steve Jobs, ending a 15-year reign that saw the company’s market value soar by more than US$3.6 trillion during an…
Business
22 Apr, 2026 0

TSMC profits jump 58% in March quarter on AI demand

Taiwan’s chipmaker TSMC, one of the world’s largest companies, reported a 58 per cent jump in profit on Thursday for the January-March quarter, thanks to strong demand driven by the artificial…
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York, USA, on February 26, 2026.
22 Apr, 2026 0

AI startup Anthropic commits US$100 billion to Amazon’s AWS over next 10 years

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to commit more than US$100 billion to Amazon’s AWS cloud platform over the next 10 years to train and run its Claude chatbot. Amazon will invest…
22 Apr, 2026 0

Gas going up $4.50 on Thursday

Motorists will need more cash to buy gas come Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says on Thursday, E-10 87 will move up by $4.50 to sell for $181.13 per litre and a litre of E-10 90…
Trader Michael Milano, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 20, 2026.
21 Apr, 2026 0

Oil jumps, stocks barely budge

Oil prices are climbing Monday following the latest rise of tensions between the United States and Iran, but the moves are more modest than they were earlier in the war. US stocks, meanwhile, are…
Executive Chairman of the Guardsman Group, Kenneth 'Kenny' Benjamin.
20 Apr, 2026 0

Kenny Benjamin to be inducted into PSOJ Hall of Fame

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica ( PSOJ ) has announced that Founder and Executive Chairman of the Guardsman Group, Kenneth 'Kenny' Benjamin, will be inducted as the 32 nd member…
Kamal Bankay, executive chairman of Dream Entertainment Ltd, and chair of Carnival in Jamaica.
19 Apr, 2026 0

‘Socametrics’ — Jump, wave, and pay

The streets of Kingston were filled with revellers dancing in the soca economy as Sunday turned to Monday. Behind the costumes and road-march revelry, a more sober calculation is taking shape –…