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Jamaican rum lost out to competitors from across the region and even from Florida, United States, in this year's Rum Awards 2013.

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Global markets surged Friday as a year-end rally continued on good news for stocks out of Japan and China, and the afterglow of a report that showed United States unemployment benefit claims are falling.

Entrepreneurship was one of the hottest buzz words for 2013. From political and business leaders to the ordinary man on the street, everyone seems to be singing from the same enterprise hymn book that mobilising our people to start and grow businesses is the key to alleviating the country's high unemployment, anaemic economic growth and debilitating debt crisis.

Jamaica rates very poorly both internationally and regionally on broadband penetration for both mobile and fixed Internet access, according to a recent international study.

Dominica, one of the Caribbean islands battered by a slow-moving low-level trough that brought death and destruction to St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, said Thursday it was prepared to assist its fellow Organisation of Eastern Caribbean...

Thousands of stakeholders in the Empire State Building lost more than $400 million in potential profits when the managing owners rebuffed potential buyers in order to sell public shares in the iconic skyscraper, a new lawsuit says.By spurning all-cash...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 42,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 338,000, the biggest drop since November 2012.

Stocks moved higher in midday trading Thursday as Wall Street went back to work after the Christmas holiday.The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, a benchmark for many kinds of loans, crossed above the psychologically important three per cent mark.

Successful stock investors followed some simple advice this year: Don't worry, be happy.Next year, though, they will need to temper that rosy approach.In 2013, investors who blocked out the scary headlines about a possible government default, budget...

While Jamaica ranks poorly in its take up of broadband Internet, the country is seeing a surge in the sales of smartphones, according to local mobile companies Digicel and Lime.Both companies are selling Internet-capable smartphones for under...