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Jeffrey Hall, CEO and vice-chairman of Pan Jamaica Group Limited.
December 12, 2025 by Neville Graham

Pan Jamaica buys another juice company in Europe

Pan Jamaica Group Limited has added another company to its portfolio, having acquired majority ownership of a juice business based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The terms of the acquisition of Frankly Juice…

A driver charges his electric truck at a charging station on the outskirts of Beijing, on November 14, 2025.
December 12, 2025

China pivoting to electric trucks, with implications for global LNG, diesel demand

China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran…

Marcus James, executive chairman of Access Financial Services Limited, speaks to shareholders.
December 12, 2025

Access bracing for challenges

Access Financial Services Limited (AFS), the microlender, said it is bracing for challenging times. Hurricane Melissa disrupted one-fifth of Access Financial Services Limited’s branch network and…

Cecil Foster, managing director of FosRich Company Limited.
December 12, 2025

Drowning in red, FosRich sees a lifeline in solar

Electrical and energy solutions provider FosRich Company Limited is aiming for a sharp turnaround after posting steep losses of nearly half-billion dollars year to date. It is banking on solar energy…
John Mahfood, CEO of Jamaican Teas Limited.
December 12, 2025 by Neville Graham

Jam Teas grows yearly earnings

Jamaican Teas Limited emerged relatively unscathed by Hurricane Melissa, with no damage to its complex at Temple Hall nor its supermarket and unsold studio apartments. Additionally, two-thirds of the…
The Kyger Creek Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant, operating on April 14, 2025 near Cheshire, Ohio.
December 12, 2025

Relentless rise in carbon pollution from fossil fuels slightly dampens climate-fighting hopes

For each of the past several years, scientists, analysts and officials have been hoping that it would be the year when emissions from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas would stop going up.…

A traveller moves in view of a control tower at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
December 12, 2025

Most major US airports among 40 to cut flights amid government shutdown

Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among 40 of the busiest across the United States where flights will be cut starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list…
December 12, 2025 by Neville Graham

RJRGLEANER aims to transform into a more agile operation

Amid ongoing efforts to reverse financial losses and transform the multimedia business, Radio Jamaica Limited, which trades as RJRGLEANER Communications Group, updated shareholders on plans to break…
Business
December 12, 2025

IFC to pump US$15m into regional fund

The International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank, plans to invest up to US$15 million in a new sub-fund of the Caribbean Community Resilience Fund, a regional…