Business

A new study published here is urging Latin America and Caribbean governments to renew efforts to modernise their tax system.

A husband’s promise of winning the Lotto and giving his wife a car came true one Wednesday in April when he walked into Bhagan’s Drugs Store in Arima and purchased two Lotto tickets and two Scratch Classic Black tickets.

Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald’s, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.

The most striking thing about the US broadcast TV networks announcing their new fall schedules this past week was how little that actually meant.

Leading television and film star Tamara Tunie has partnered with the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) as the celebrity spokesperson for the CTO’s 40th celebration of Caribbean Week in New York.

Company spirit was high at The National Gas Company’s (NGC’s) recent honouring of employees who best exemplified the spirit of the energy company. By the end of the evening, one of them, Roger Frontin, Senior Supervisor, Planning (Ag), had risen to...

In 2012, Latin America and the Caribbean received a record US$173.36 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI)—6.7 per cent more than in 2011—despite an external context characterised by shrinking FDI flows worldwide, according to the United...

Jamaica has imposed additional duties on lube oil product from Trinidad and Tobago, accusing the oil rich twin island republic of engaging in a scheme to circumvent the rules of origin in the Treaty of Chaguaramas, governing the Caribbean Community...