Last week, the gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica in­vit­ed me to cov­er the World Free Zone Con­fer­ence and Ex­hi­bi­tion held in Mon­tego Bay. It was an op­por­tu­ni­ty for Ja­maica to push its con­fer­ence tourism but, more than that, to show the world its emer­gence as a con­fi­dent and re­silient is­land, ready to take off eco­nom­i­cal­ly with the at­tend­ing so­cial ben­e­fits that come with a thriv­ing econ­o­my.

Pro­man has an­nounced that it has tak­en de­liv­ery of the first of its new gen­er­a­tion methanol-pow­ered ships

State-owned Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um is look­ing for a new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer to re­place Ar­lene Chow who is re­tir­ing.

Con­sis­tent­ly ranked as one of the Caribbean is­lands with the high­est mur­der rates, Ja­maica has suc­cess­ful­ly nav­i­gat­ed the risk to its brand and re­mains a safe des­ti­na­tion for its vis­i­tors.

Soon-to-be ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor at the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB), Robert Le Hunte wants to im­prove the lives of this coun­try’s cit­i­zens.

On­ly six per cent of do­mes­tic work­ers world­wide have ac­cess to com­pre­hen­sive so­cial pro­tec­tion, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port from the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO).

East­ern Cred­it Union has of­fi­cial­ly dis­con­tin­ued its bu­reau de change op­er­a­tions, there­by re­mov­ing the cred­it union from un­der the re­mit of the Cen­tral Bank.

Southex Trade Shows and Pro­mo­tions, in part­ner­ship with the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, the George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce and In­dus­try and the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T, will host the agri­cul­ture and food ex­po themed, Our Life, Our Busi­ness.

T&T has the right tools to be­gin the tran­si­tion to­wards clean en­er­gy, but the coun­try’s cur­rent de­pen­dence on fos­sil fu­els in terms of rev­enue gen­er­a­tion must be care­ful­ly man­aged.

Con­sul­ta­tions con­cern­ing the pro­posed in­crease in the com­pul­so­ry age of re­tire­ment from 60 to 65 years con­tin­ued this week as Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Bri­an Man­ning met with two Cham­bers about the plan.

The Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try and the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty have an­nounced that ap­pli­ca­tions for Group Work Per­mits can be done on the Sin­gle Elec­tron­ic Win­dow for Trade and Busi­ness, TTBi­zLink – via the e-Work Per­mit Mod­ule.

Sco­tia­bank T&T Ltd (The Group) has re­alised in­come af­ter tax of $356 mil­lion for the pe­ri­od end­ed April 30, 2022, an in­crease of $52 mil­lion or 17 per cent over the same pe­ri­od end­ed April 30,2021.