Business

June 28, 2026

Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

The Supreme Court sided with the maker of the Roundup weedkiller on Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that the product could cause cancer.
June 26, 2026

United Oil presses Jamaica farm-out as Strait of Hormuz ‘closure’ reprices prospect

Offshore oil exploration firm United Oil & Gas Plc expects to secure a joint-venture partner by October, according to its full-year results published this week. The company cited the disruption…
June 26, 2026 by Carolyn Guniss

Silvera wins second JMEA term with data-led agenda for manufacturers

The Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) plans to deepen industry data collection as part of a five-point agenda unveiled by President Kathryn Silvera after her re-election on…
June 26, 2026

Companies in preparation for JSE Micro Market listing

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) opened a new market for small companies this week, with 10 firms already in preparation to raise between J$50 million and J$100 million each through public listings.
June 26, 2026

Charlene Ashley | THE UNGLAMOROUS OCTOPUS OF BUSINESS — The real competition happens behind the curtain

Many will disagree when I say Apple is not a company. Neither are Toyota or Microsoft. They are something else entirely. Over the past five years, some of the world's most admired companies…
June 26, 2026

US economy expanded 2.1% in March quarter, government says, upgrading last estimate 

The US economy expanded at an unexpected 2.1 per cent from January through to March, compared to year-earlier levels, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday in its final estimate of…
June 26, 2026

Alibaba sues the US Defense Department in a bid to remove 'Chinese military company' designation 

The Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sued the US Department of Defense, demanding that it be removed from the Pentagon's list of Chinese military companies that prohibits them from landing US…
June 26, 2026

Tech entrepreneurs seeking the next AI frontier are pivoting from chatbots to 'world models' 

Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large-language models (LLM) — the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude — when he started to…
June 26, 2026

Court filing reveals President Trump spoke to Live Nation CEO before anti-trust case was settled 

President Donald Trump spoke personally with the chief executive of Live Nation in the weeks before the Justice Department abruptly settled its long-standing anti-trust lawsuit against the…