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September 19 01:05 PM
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Two employees of a supermarket in St Elizabeth have been slapped with simple larceny charges after allegedly stealing five gal...
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September 19 12:11 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Police in St Elizabeth say they have recovered a Toyota Mark X motorcar that was stolen on Thursday, September 19, in Coker di...
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September 19 12:04 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The World Bank announced Thursday that it delivered a record $42.6 billion in climate change financing in the 2024 f...
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September 19 11:29 AM
BRIDGETOWN , Barbados (CMC) — The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has raised alarm over the increasing incidence of HIV among youn...
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December 15, 2009
PARIS, France - TROUBLE in Greece, Ireland and Austria is making markets fret anew about the strength of Europe's economic recovery -- and underlining...
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December 15, 2009
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - DUBAI has been let off the hook for now over its imminent debt thanks to a hefty lifeline from Abu Dhabi, but the price ...
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By Del Warmington Contributor 
December 12, 2009
Currency is the magma that holds the tectonic plate of any economy. More so, in the case of Jamaica. The plate has shifted and there are gapping holes...
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BY MARK CUMMINGS Sunday Finance reporter cummingsm@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 12, 2009
FROME, Westmoreland-- An incentive programme for sugar workers based on productivity, as well as a $430 million refurbishing exercise at the Frome sug...
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BY AL EDWARDS 
December 12, 2009
MEGAMART celebtrates its 10th anniversary this month and continues to redefine the retail shopping experience in Jamaica. Its CEO Gassan Azan is regar...
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with Claudienne Edwards 
December 12, 2009
Tell Claudienne Dear Claudienne I got a call from a Scotia Bank office on Tuesday November 17 on my digicel pre-paid phone. About three minutes after ...
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BY ALICIA ROACHE Sunday Finance reporter roachea@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 12, 2009
THERE is nothing new to advertising on taxis -- in the United States, taxi-top advertising on yellow cabs has been well-established for decades. Howev...
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BY ROSS SHEIL Online Co-ordinator rsheil@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 12, 2009
CLARO'S parent company, América Móvil (AMX), while it can boast more than 195 million subscribers worldwide, acknowledges that it remains in the Jamai...
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December 12, 2009
This article is the third, in a series of five, contributed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, looking at the worldwide retirement tourism industry and the op...
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December 10, 2009
Like many famous entrepreneurs, Arthur Lok Jack didn't do well in school. Rather than academics, the Trinidadian businessman's success was founded upo...
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December 10, 2009
Barbados' tourism revenue was down by more than BdS$100 million during the first seven months of this year. Executive vice-president of the Barbados H...
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December 10, 2009
The Caribbean Petroleum Corporation is facing a third class-action lawsuit, in which plaintiffs are seeking a minimum US$5 million, almost two months ...
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December 10, 2009
Investors in the St Vincent and the Grenadines-based Millennium Bank which is in receivership have lost more than three times what the US Securities a...
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BY ALICIA ROACHE roachea@jamaicaobserver.com 
December 10, 2009
Records $7.12 billion net profit The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) declared on Wednesday, December 2, quarterly dividends payable on December...
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December 10, 2009
Offshore financial services are still a viable development option for Caribbean states despite unwelcome pressure from developed countries targeting t...
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December 10, 2009
Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has said that tourism earnings for this year could eclipse 2008 figures, despite the global economic recession. ...
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BY HOWARD RICHMAN, RAYMOND RICHMAN, AND JESSE RICHMAN 
December 10, 2009
While the country waits with bated breath for a decision from the IMF many small developing countries are questioning the very liability of the multil...
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December 10, 2009
The Bank of England held interest rates steady at 0.5 percent and also left its 200 billion pound ($325 billion) asset purchase program unchanged yest...
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December 10, 2009
The Jamaica government is reportedly closer to reaching a deal for US$1.2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). An IMF team arrived in t...
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December 10, 2009
Brazil's Government says its economy expanded in the third quarter as the nation continues to experience robust growth after emerging from a short rec...
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December 10, 2009
Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited and its subsidiary, Pan Caribbean Financial Services Limited (PCFS) took the top awards at the Jamaica Stock Exchange's B...
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December 10, 2009
On Monday morning, November 23rd, Digicel Limited jumped back into the international bond market with an offer to sell U.S. $500 million in corporate ...
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