Business
22 Sep, 2026
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Sandals reportedly in US$6-billion talks with Royal Caribbean
Shares of Royal Caribbean Group fell 6.1 per cent on Tuesday after the Financial Times (FT) reported that the cruise operator stands close to a deal to acquire a majority stake in Sandals Resorts…
22 Sep, 2026
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Paramount reaches deal with US states to settle case challenging Warner buyout, AP source says
Skydance-owned Paramount reached a settlement Monday with a group of state attorneys general that had sued to challenge the company’s buyout of Warner Bros Discovery, effectively paving the way for…
21 Sep, 2026
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US$1b bond raise reflects confidence, says Fayval Williams
Jamaica raised US$1 billion from the international capital markets on Wednesday at a coupon of 6.25 per cent, the lowest coupon the country has paid on an international bond. It was the government’s…
21 Sep, 2026
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Japan’s central bank raises interest rate to 1.25%, the highest in 31 years
Japan’s central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25 per cent from 1.0 per cent, a 31-year-high. The Bank of Japan has been trying to normalise monetary policy after decades of…
21 Sep, 2026
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Anthropic’s Claude is helping to build the next version of itself
Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence (AI) lab said in an announcement on Thursday. Claude is leading 26 per…
20 Sep, 2026
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Solar firm IEG mulls property development to unlock legacy losses
Innovative Energy Group (IEG) wants to enter property development to augment its solar-installation business, and would seek approval to use legacy tax losses from the Ciboney Group, a listed entity…
20 Sep, 2026
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FID seeks broker to sell 11 forfeited properties
The Financial Investigations Division (FID) has gone to market for a real estate brokerage firm to sell 11 properties taken from criminals, the first concrete step towards the privately run disposal…
20 Sep, 2026
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Yaneek Page | Ja’s crime rate nears Costa Rica’s, but growth promise unfulfilled
There are few instances in economic life when the business community can expect a tangible return on an external shift without cutting another cheque, and the dramatic fall in Jamaica’s murder rate…
18 Sep, 2026
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Food replaces transport as inflation driver, says finance minister
Jamaica’s inflation problem has shifted from transport costs to drought-hit food prices, Minister of Finance and the Public Service Fayval Williams said on Wednesday, as she argued that the economy…