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The prospective buyer, graceful with strands of grey, followed the skirted realtor up a minimalist tower, paused at the patio to take in the view. Then sped away in his Porsche. “That’s what he drives when he’s on the island,” the realtor whispered...
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Even people who are otherwise very literate can be financially illiterate; it shows in how poorly they manage their financial affairs. Financial literacy, though, gives power to realise personal goals from short-term to long-term and plays a...
PriceSmart Inc said Thursday that the opening of two new warehouse clubs in Jamaica has been pushed back following disruptions tied to Hurricane Melissa last October. The membership-based retailer told investors on its earnings call that its...
In a few weeks, we will receive one of the most-telling economic signals since Hurricane Melissa, the release of the fourth-quarter 2025 JCC Business and Consumer Confidence Surveys conducted by Market Research Services Limited. The results will...
Jamaica ended 2025 with 524,000 fewer passengers, marking the largest annual decline since the pandemic, as Hurricane Melissa battered the island’s tourism sector. “Montego Bay and Kingston recorded decreases ... as a result of disruptions caused...
West Indies Petroleum Terminal Ltd. (WIPT) stock climbed above $5.60 in Thursday trading, or 11 times its listing price some two weeks earlier, reflecting a rally driven more by scarcity than fundamentals. Since its December 23 debut on the...
Jamaica’s securities dealers are sitting on relatively high levels of cash within a market affected by uncertainty. Cash holdings in local collective investment schemes (CIS) surged 40.2 percent to $18.5 billion in the quarter ended September...
More artificial intelligence (AI) is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarise far-flung information buried in inboxes, and deliver daily...
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes. Trump — who has been under pressure to address...
Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida, USA mother who alleged that a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Attorneys for the two tech companies have also...
California will lose US$160 million for delaying the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licences for immigrants, federal transportation officials announced on Wednesday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy already withheld US$40 million in...
US employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers are not yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up. Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1 million open jobs at the end of November, the...
Crowds flooded the freshly opened showroom floors on Day 2 of CES, which originally stood for the Consumer Electronic Show, and were met by thousands of robots, AI companions, assistants, health longevity technology, wearables, and more. Siemens...
The value of all shares on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) closed 2025 at US$1.98 trillion in market capitalisation, some 5.0 per cent lower than the previous year, as all three major indices registered declines. Investors grappled with relatively...
