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By Carla Hindman PRIDE Financial Columnist September is just around the corner, and when it comes to back-to-school, it pays to be prepared. In 2014, a Retailmenot.ca survey revealed that just over 50 per cent of Canadians planned to spend ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government has acknowledged that the sugar sector is “in distress” but said it is convinced that the industry will rebound in 2015. “It is not the first time it has been in distress. GUYSUCO ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Republic Bank Limited (RBL), one of the biggest commercial banks here Friday denied media reports that it had suspended the sale of foreign currencies, saying that it had instead “tightened controls in the sale ...

Photo above is of J.A. Lester Spaulding (left) and Oliver Clarke (Jamaica Gleaner photo). KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC — Two of the oldest media houses in Jamaica, the RJR Communications Group and the Gleaner Company, will be merging their operations to create ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government, on Monday, sought to re-assure rice farmers here, that the industry is too important to the country’s economic fortunes to be allowed to fail. “The problems in the industry can be overcome by ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica government says the two billion US dollars raised on the international market as a result of a debt sale is the highest ever for the country. “This is more than twice our previous largest, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – The British telecommunications giant, Cable and Wireless Communications, Plc (CWC) says it is investing US$160 million in Barbados as the Company rolled out its new retail brand, Flow, as part of the multi-million dollar merger with ...

WASHINGTON, DC CMC — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says growth projections for Latin America and the Caribbean have been revised down further, to 0.5 per cent in 2015, marking the fifth consecutive year in which activity has decelerated. IMF ...

By Peter Richards CMC Correspondent  BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony says St. Lucia is not prepared to invest in the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, and called on its shareholder governments to bite the bullet and put ...

Photo above: Guyana Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, making his presentation in the National Assembly. Photo credit: GINA. GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill was passed by the National Assembly, late last ...