KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 21, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica parliament has given the Andrew Holness government the green light, to compulsory retake the 49 percent shares in the state-owned oil company, Petrojam, that had been held by the Venezuelan state-owned ...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 21, 2019 (CMC) – The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has blamed successive governments for the treatment being handed out to workers at the Rusal-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana, who have been on strike, since last weekend, ...
Read More »Trinidad And Tobago Government Denies Blocking Attempt By Jamaican Company To Acquire GHL
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 20, 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it is not putting in place measures that would serve to block attempts by the NCB Global Holdings Ltd. of Jamaica (NCBJ) to ...
Read More »Russian-Owned Bauxite Company Of Guyana Not Yet Ready To Say If Striking Workers Would Be Re-Hired
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 20, 2019 (CMC) – The Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana said, yesterday, it is too early to state whether termination letters, sent to 60 striking workers, would be rescinded, following talks with labour officials. The workers began ...
Read More »Wake Up And Smell The Organic Coffee In Jamaica
By Busani Bafana Contributing Writer PORTLAND, Jamaica, February 20, 2019 (IPS) — In 1992, the idea of replanting her father’s ruined coffee farm seemed foolhardy at the time. But, in retrospect, it was the best business decision that Dorienne Rowan-Campbell, ...
Read More »Bringing The #Metoo Movement To The Fashion Industry
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York February 20, 2019 (IPS)– The global #MeToo movement has put a spotlight on sexual harassment and violence in various industries, including the film and music industries. Is it now time for ...
Read More »Caribbean And African Small, Rural, Agricultural Enterprises To Benefit From New Global Fund
ROME, Italy February 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, Dr. Patrick I. Gomes, says the newly-launched Agri-Business Capital (ABC) Fund, with an innovative approach for attracting much-needed capital for ...
Read More »Guyana’s Central Bank Denies Foreign Exchange Shortage
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 14, 2019 (CMC) – The Governor of the Bank of Guyana, Dr. Gobind Ganga, says there is no shortage of United States currency in the banking system. “There is sufficient foreign exchange in the market. As a ...
Read More »Jamaica Government Reports “Good Progress” In Re-Purchasing Shares In Petrojam
KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 13, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says “good progress” has been made in negotiating the repurchase of the 49 percent shares, owned by the Venezuelan company, PDV Caribe, even as it tabled legislation to ensure the ...
Read More »Jamaica Government Pleased With US Lifting Sanctions Against Russian Parent of West Indies Alumina Company
KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 7, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica government has confirmed that the United States has lifted the sanctions, imposed on the Russian-owned, UC Rusal, the parent company of the West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco). Transport and Mining Minister, ...
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