FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed on Monday last to head the World Trade Organization (WTO), becoming the first woman and first African to take on the role amid rising protectionism and disagreement over how the body decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Nigel Clarke, and World Bank Director for the Caribbean, Tahseen Sayed signed the loan agreement of the Second Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI II) Project in March 2020. Other members of the head table looking on include Resident Representative for Jamaica and Guyana,
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Minister of Transport and Mining, Robert Montague is urging transport operators to ensure they have a pension plan for retirement. Montague was speaking at the stakeholders meeting for the "Ribbon First Responders Training and Certification Project” in Half Way Tree this morning. The minister said that while there
Insurance conglomerate Guardian Holdings Limited, GHL, listed two securities on the JSE Private Bond Market platform on Tuesday, the first company to utilise the platform that went live in January. The two bonds include the GHL Tranche B 6.50% fixed-rate, unsecured note valued at $1.9 billion, and GHL Tranche D
M anufacturing and distribution company Seprod Limited got innovative during the pandemic, putting out new products, developing new partnerships, and reshaping aspects of the business. Having cauterised the loss-making side of the operation, sugar... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20210212/seprod-doubles-profit-abnormal-2020
Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that a group of Nigerian farmers and fishermen can sue Royal Dutch Shell PLC in English courts over pollution in a region where the Anglo-Dutch energy giant has a subsidiary. Five justices on the United Kingdom’s top court said Shell may owe a “duty of
A project between the Government of Jamaica and the International Labour Organization, or ILO, which is intended to shift businesses and workers in three sectors into the formal economy, has so far made progress on two – agriculture and fishing.... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20210214/ilo-funded-transition-farmers-fishers-formal-system-begins-domestic
The associations that speak for payday lenders, Jamaica Micro Financing Association, or JamFA, and the Jamaica Association for Micro Financing, known as JamFin, are heading into more talks this week to reinforce their message to members – that some... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20210214/microfins-putting-out-ma-feelers
ONE of the expected impacts of the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 measures was always the possibility of increased crime, as children are out of school, the distraction of parties no longer exist, and the economic restrictions no doubt have had a significant negative economic impact on many.
A high-level courtesy call by non-profit organisation INMED Caribbean on Minister Floyd Green and officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has resulted in an endorsement from the minister for the organisation's Increasing Access to Climate-Smart Agriculture (IACA) initiative. The call included representatives from the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS),
