Counterfeiting comes in many forms, and is nothing new in business or in the law of intellectual property. However, where counterfeit goods are becoming nearly imperceptible, they pose a real risk to the owners of the trademarked goods, because they are “knock offs”, and the buyers who believe they are

A few years ago Port Authority of Jamaica's (PAJ) Assistant Vice-President of Operations and Customer Relations, Gloria Henry, was expecting a miraculous resurgence of the once popular 807 Garment Industry to save the Montego Bay Free z one. Three years later the miracle has happened, but not quite like she

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Scotiabank Wednesday defended its decision to exit some markets in the region even as it insisted that the “Caribbean is very important” to its overall operations. “We are just re-focusing on the markets with size and scale… (and) even after this transaction we will

RADCLIFFE Lewis, the tough-talking former Senior Superintendent of Police in charge of the Traffic Division, says the Government should not be intimidated by recent protests against the new Road Traffic Act. “It's a country's responsibility to protect its citizens, especially from road hogs. I'm in total support of the new

Wisynco sells $24 billion worth of products annually, but just a fraction comes from markets overseas. But now that the manufacturing and distribution conglomerate has added new production and storage capacity and has wrapped up its expansion and post-fire consolidation programme, Wisynco has set itself the goal of growing exports

It's been one of the worst-kept secrets in Kingston that sport celebrity Usain Bolt is associated with a large building under development on Half-Way Tree Road. It now appears that this project may start of the roll-out of more real estate investments into which the Olympian and World champion is

The acquisition of Scotiabank's life insurance businesses in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago are projected to increase profit by 50 per cent for Sagicor Financial Corporation, SFC, Canadian filings indicate. The prospective owner of Sagicor Financial, Alignvest of Canada, is also telegraphing that there are more deals to be made.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A technical team from the Ministry of Transport and Mining is to review alternative proposals to amendments in the Road Traffic Act, following a meeting with the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS) and the Jamaica Association of Transport Owners and Operators (JATOO). The ministry, in

United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cast a bright picture of the US economy Wednesday and appeared to suggest that the Fed might consider a pause in its interest rate hikes next year to assess the impact of its credit tightening. Powell's comments ignited a rally on Wall Street,