Business
27 Sep, 2026
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Francis Wade | A strategy with one future has no backup
Your company is a successful competitor in its industry. But behind the numbers, you are disconcerted. The current corporate strategy is actually just a projection of prior success. This is risky –…
27 Sep, 2026
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Starbucks to shutter 250 stores in North America this week in 2nd wave of closings
Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last…
25 Sep, 2026
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Jamaica holds US$45m owed to Venezuela in frozen account
Jamaica has built up US$45 million (J$7.2b) in PetroCaribe payments owed to Venezuela, an amount that’s grown more than 16-fold over two years. The money sits in a segregated account at the Bank of…
25 Sep, 2026
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Sandals to earn about US$600m a year, Royal Caribbean deal implies
Royal Caribbean Group’s agreement to buy half of Sandals Resorts International implies the Jamaican hotel chain will earn roughly US$600 million a year in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation…
25 Sep, 2026
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Rusal seeks buyers for Windalco as it pulls back from the Caribbean
Russia’s largest aluminium producer, UC Rusal, has started looking for buyers for its Windalco alumina complex in Jamaica and its bauxite operations in Guyana, US-based Bloomberg News reported, citing…
25 Sep, 2026
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Cedric E. Stephens | Hurricane Melissa and the ‘endurance economy’ – The recovery we are enduring
In a recent series of articles, Professor C. Justin Robinson, pro-vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus, introduced the concept of the ‘endurance…
25 Sep, 2026
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Tech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we created
The heads of major artificial intelligence (AI) firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that…
25 Sep, 2026
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Meta bets big on wearable AI as Zuckerberg pushes back against AI doom
Meta is going all in on a consumer-friendly AI agent and pushing forward with AI-powered wearable devices during a moment in the industry when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged it is a “wild time…
25 Sep, 2026
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UN chief urges global AI cooperation, says world can’t afford ‘race to the bottom on AI safety’
The United Nations chief urged global competitors in artificial intelligence (AI) on Wednesday to cooperate in addressing threats from the technology, warning that “the world cannot afford a race to…