The new Immigration Reform Bill for the Cayman Islands which was passed by legislators last week, will become law on Monday, extending the term limit for...
Grenada is preparing to lower the income tax threshold and make new efforts to catch tax dodgers. The Caribbean nation’s state-run news agency said Sunday that...
Abasiama Idaresit (pictured), is the founder and CEO of Wild Fusion– a digital marketing agency servicing some of the world’s biggest brands operating in Africa. Idaresit...
Jamaica’s energy minister has opened a pilot plant where researchers will test whether rare earth elements can be commercially extracted from bauxite waste on the Caribbean...
Nigeria is on track to begin building its own ships and has approved a N58.6 billion (US$369 million) fund for or the construction of ship building...
(PRWire) – Battle Creek, Michigan – The Board of Trustees of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced earlier this week it has selected La June Montgomery Tabron...
Just days after a group of SkyBahamas pilots was furloughed for six months, the airline announced yesterday that it would lay off more staff from its...
(Reuters) – Millions of cell phones are shipped to Africa every month, but a South African black-owned company hopes to rival the likes of Samsung and...
South Africa is about to be seriously upstaged on the African continent. For several years economists have been waiting for a promised revision to Nigeria’s economic...
Barbados has signed an agreement with Sandals Resorts International (SRI) paving the way for the Jamaica-based hotel chain to take control of the Almond Beach Village....
(PRNewsire) – The long anticipated launch of REVOLT TV took place at 8 p.m EDT Monday when chairman and founder Sean Combs (also known as Diddy)...
(AFP) – Ethiopia unveiled last Friday the first phase of a space exploration program, which includes East Africa’s largest observatory designed to promote astronomy research in...
Rwanda is busy trying to reinvent itself as the east and central African regional high tech hub by rolling out free nationwide wireless connectivity. In September...
Aliko Dangote – Founder and Chairman of The Dangote Group Nigerian entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, plans to spend US$350 million to build a new cement plant in...
Africa’s first Internet Business Summit, organized by Afrinet Business Solutions, will be hosted in Abuja, on November 2. Ope Banwo, chairman of African Business Solutions, said...
Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies (PRNewswire) – Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black...
The rapid depreciation in the value of the Jamaican dollar over the past three weeks will not continue in that manner over the rest of the...
Digital Vision EA, a Kenyan technology company has developed a web application that enables investment groups to automate their financial records and systems, from collection to...
Caribbean Airlines Limited, is headhunting a new executive team alongside plans to “transform the organization and re-brand the company both internally and externally”. The carrier is...
It is projected that average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Africa in 2013 will range between 5.6 and 6 percent. The middle class in sub-Saharan...
Manufacturers in St. Lucia have urged the government to re-examine issued related the Value Added Tax (VAT) that was introduced one year ago. The manufacturers state...
Antigua & Barbuda has launched its “Citizenship by Investment Program” with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer saying the initiative is to generate investments and jobs for nationals...
Oil worker on rig of Angolan coast. PHOTO/AFP (Bloomberg) – Angola, Africa’s largest oil producer after Nigeria, is imposing a consumption tax on petroleum companies that...
Olkaria geothermal power generation plant – Kenya. PHOTO/Nation Media Group (Reuters) – Kenya Power plans to spend 156 billion shillings (US$1.83 billion) over the next 4...
Incoming General Electric Foundation President, Deborah Elam at a past event. PHOTO/File. General Electric (GE) Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced last week the appointment of...
Aliko Dangote, President and CEO of Nigeria’s Dangote Group. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/Reuters (AFP) – There are far more African billionaires than previously thought, Ventures magazine said Monday...
Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies (PRNewswire) – Charlotte, North Carolina – Retirement Clearinghouse, LLC (RCH) has surpassed US$10 billion in guiding...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Bloomberg) – Uganda is looking for a lead investor to develop a refinery estimated to cost US$2.5 billion, two weeks...
The Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited (JMMB) now has a 100 percent shareholding in Trinidad & Tobago’s Intercommercial Bank (IBL). This follows the company’s acquisition of...
Liquid Telecom Kenya is entering the voice market in search of a new stream of revenues, reports the Business Daily. The firm will offer fixed-line services...
(PRNewswire) – AARP, one of the world’s largest member organizations with more than 37 million members and Black Enterprise, the leading small business resource for African...
After registering “disappointing growth” in 2012, Trinidad & Tobago is poised for a modest recovery in 2013. The economy of Trinidad & Tobago had contracted at...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian Robust economic growth over the last 15 years has led to visible changes across Africa. Visitors...
(Black PR Wire) -Atlanta, Georgia – ASPiRE has acquired national cable rights to “Inside the Game” the nation’s longest-running sports highlights show devoted exclusively to Historically...
Republic Bank now controls 40 percent of the HFC Bank Ghana, after acquiring an additional 7.98 percent shareholding in the Ghanaian financial institution. In a statement,...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil Uganda finally took the first baby steps towards oil production with the assigning of a production licence to the China...
Linda McGill Boasmond – owner and president of Cedar Concepts Corporation Linda McGill Boasmond is the owner and Cedar Concepts Corporation, a chemical manufacturing plant based...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. PHOTO/File By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda | Just like Kenya deftly managed a post-inferno crisis that shut down its international airport...
Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock exchange. PHOTO/File Global investors are being enticed by bountiful opportunities to do business in Africa, as the continent...
Aliko Dangote – Chairman and CEO of the Dangote Group Africa’s largest asset manager, the South African-based Public Investment Corporation, will consider investing in more companies...
(Black PR Wire) – Cincinnati, Ohio – BlackBizFunding, a U.S based company that assists in providing funding for black-owned startups and businesses, announces the launch of...
(Reuters) – African budget airline Fastjet Plc., said its first international flight, scheduled on Friday between Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg, had been postponed after South...
With 43 million African Americans in the United States representing about 14 percent of the population, more than half under the age of 35, advertisers are...
Ozwald Boateng – Co-founder of Made In Africa Foundation. PHOTO/BBC Made In Africa Foundation Co-Founder Ozwald Boateng And African Development Bank Launch Africa50 Fund to financing...
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which is hosted its annual conference in Washington this last week, announced an investment worth US$5 million in 5 African American-owned...
Members of South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) will stage a work stoppage to protest job cuts, AMCU...
(Reuters) – Security worries are nothing new in Kenya and so the country is unlikely to see long term investors pull money out after the deadly...
(PRNewswire) – Bridgetown, Barbados – The Government of Barbados (Barbados) is offering to sell amortizing notes due 2025 (the “New Notes”) through a private placement (the...
Black purchasing power in the United States. SOURCE/ReachingBlackConsumers.com (Business Wire) – African American buying power continues to increase and is expected to rise from its current...
Jamaican company, Caribbean Flavors and Fragrances, is looking to raise J$ 50.6 million (US$ 495,000) an equivalent of about 23 million shares when it holds its’...
Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa), the continent’s leading venture capital community, has announced a new cohort of 10 top fundraising entrepreneurs, as it seeks to attract...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson launched his “Friends of Magic” initiative in Chicago on Wednesday. The idea is to help at-risk students, including dropouts, graduate from high school....
(Black PR Wire) – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) will host the 2013 Media Institute for Professionals and Entrepreneurs, Friday, September 27, 8:30 a.m....
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders ended a one day meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, Tuesday agreeing to the formation of a Commission on the...
(Reuters) – Kenya wants to host a clearing house for China’s yuan currency – a bold African first that would deepen the continent’s ties with Beijing,...
All across the Africa, innovators and entrepreneurs are coming up against a persistent roadblock: lack of access to capital funding. But a new investment platform aims...
(Business Wire) – Atlanta, Georgia – The Board of Directors of Capitol City Bank & Trust Company announced last week that founder and former CEO George...
(Reuters) – Citigroup announced on Tuesday it had appointed Ade Ayeyemi (pictured), a 25-year veteran of the bank, as its chief executive for sub-Saharan Africa. Ayeyemi,...
The CEO of troubled regional carrier LIAT (Leeward Islands Air Transport), Ian Brunton has resigned. News of Brunton’s departure from the carrier was revealed to reporters...
Suzanne Shank. PHOTO/Siebert Financial Corporation (Business Wire) – New York – Siebert Financial Corporation on Thursday announced the appointment of Suzanne Shank as Acting CEO of...
Artistic Impression of Hope City. IMAGE/File Forbes Magazine, is predicting that Ghana will undergo a massive tech boom, should various interventions in the sector proceed unhindered....
App developers at work in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File Kenya’s fast-growing tech sector, dubbed the Silicon Savannah, already accounts for 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic...
Ursula Burns – CEO and Chairperson of Xerox. PHOTO/Jemal Countess/Getty Images (PRNewswire) – Late last week, Black Enterprise released its latest exclusive report on African American...
While South Africa remains the most attractive corporate investment destination in Africa, Nigeria is nipping at its heels and may overtake it as soon as next...
(Black PR Wire) – Angela Benton (pictured), the founder and CEO of NewMe Accelerator will speak at the ICABA (Identify Connect Activate the Black Accomplished) Business...
East Africa’s third largest economy, Uganda plans to double the length of its power grid in four years at a cost of US$500 million as it...
Environmental Damage caused by past oil spill in Nigeria. PHOTO/File Royal Dutch Shell officials on Monday began talks in Nigeria’s southern city of Port Harcourt with...
The Eastern Caribbean Monetary Council is considering a proposed amalgamation of the banks in the sub-region in order to create more efficiency and stability within the...
PETROTRIN oil refinery in Trinidad & Tobago. PHOTO/File The Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago, one of the most powerful groups in the twin-island nation has...
(Reuters) – Workers in South Africa’s auto and gold industries will return to work this week after industrial action that led to work stoppages that crippled...
The rate of unemployment in the African American community inched upwards from 12.6 percent in July to 13.0 percent in August, according to the latest numbers...
St. Lucia Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony. PHOTO/File St. Lucia Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony began his one year term as Chairman of the Monetary Council...
Jaylen Bledsoe – CEO and founder of Bledsoe Technologies, LLC Fifteen-year-old Jaylen Bledsoe founded Bledsoe Technologies, an information technology consulting company, when he was just 12...
Jamaica’s Finance Minister, Peter Phillips has revealed that the period of difficulty for the country may be over as the island-nation has passed the worst as...
Image/Courtesy African Development Bank The African Development Bank in working to raise US$100 billion to finance bankable infrastructure projects across the continent, a senior bank official...
Rebecca Enonchong – founder and CEO of AppsTech Cameroonian tech entrepreneur and businesswomen, Rebecca Enonchong is the founder and CEO of AppsTech, a global provider of...
Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies and RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund (PRNewswire) – Bethesda, Maryland – Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s United Bank for Africa (UBA) has invested US$700 million this year financing power assets in Africa’s second biggest economy and is looking to...
(Reuters) – Anglo American Platinum, the world’s top platinum producer, said on Friday it would shed around 4,800 jobs through its restructuring process, with 3,300 coming...
After months of decline and recession, Jamaica’s economy is set to register growth of between 0.5 and 1.5 percent for the third quarter of 2013 –...
A worker at the Petroleum Refinery plant in Mombasa, Kenya. PHOTO/Daily Nation Kenya is headed to become the first oil exporter in East Africa, moving in...
Aliko Dangote – founder and CEO of the Dangote Group (Reuters) – The Dangote Group said on Tuesday it will borrow US$3.3 billion to build a...
Haiti is raising taxes on a number of imported products as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country moves to protect local industries from unfair competition. The...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s economy is likely to grow 7 percent a year over the next three to five years, below its average of the last decade,...
The Bank of The Bahamas has closed its Miami service center five years after it opened, citing “onerous” demands from US authorities that it no longer...
Business leaders from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of emerging economies met Tuesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss trade with...
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller (r), accompanied by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, inspects a guard of honor at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,...
(Business Wire) – Morgan Stanley Managing Director Carla Harris (pictured), was last week been appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama as Chair of the National Women’s...
A sleepy African city is rapidly being turned into a major global trading center. After decades of just mining rough diamonds, Botswana’s capital Gaborone now cuts,...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South Africa’s auto manufacturing industry came to a near standstill on Monday when about 30,000 workers...
Black Enterprise magazine has compiled a list of the top 100 black businesses in the United States for the year 2013. In 1973, the first year...
Donald A. Coleman, founder and CEO of GlobalHue Donald A. Coleman is the founder and CEO of GlobalHue, the largest black-owned multicultural advertising agency in the...
Jamaica is set to host its first-ever venture capital conference this coming September. The Jamaica Venture Capital Program (JVCP) is to be launched on September 9,...
(IANS) – Business leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa Monday to identify specific measures to eliminate...
Galeota block off Trinidad & Tobago. Source: Bayfield Energy The energy ministry in Trinidad & Tobago has revealed that the Persaud-Bissessar administration would be auctioning off...
Nigerian philanthropist and entrepreneur Tony Elumelu (pictured), has announced the creation of a 5-year endowment of the The Future Africa Awards prizes. The idea behind the...
(PR Newswire) – Chicago – The National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Annual NBMBAA Entrepreneurial Institute (EI) is accepting applications for its “Innovation Whiteboard Challenge,” held during...
The Freundel Stuart administration in Barbados has announced a raft of measures designed to revive the island-nation’s sluggish economy and speed up growth, with Finance Minister...
Two banks in the Caribbean territory of Anguilla have been taken over by regional regulators. St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas said Tuesday that...
(Bloomberg) – Uganda’s economy is on course to expand in 2013-14 at the higher end of its forecast range, driven by growth in the services industry...
The regional airline (Leeward Islands Air Transport) LIAT yesterday warned passengers to brace for more travelling disruptions this week after one of its new aircraft was...
(Reuters) – Kenyan retailer Naivas said on Tuesday that South Africa’s Massmart is seeking to buy a majority stake in the family-owned owned supermarket chain. Massmart,...
The Barbados government and The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have signed an agreement to establish a National Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT). The CIRT is a...
The 2013 West Africa Business Expo to be held in Accra, Ghana on September 5th and 6th has been launched under the theme: “Kick Starting and...
It is a longstanding policy of the United States to grant preferential trade deals to developing countries, in order to promote good relationships and to support...
(Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are...
Receiving adequate, if not positive, media coverage United States, is a challenge Historically Black College Universities (HBCU) Sports have always faced. With the digital age in...
The trade dispute between Caribbean neighbors, Haiti and the Dominican Republic has escalated with the Dominican Republic implementing tighter restrictions along the border with Haiti, in...
Grenada joins St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda and Dominica in what is becoming an increasing trend of Caribbean countries offering citizenship in exchange for...
Majority of Ghanaians are willing to pay higher taxes for services to prevent the government from accumulating debt due to excessive borrowing, a survey by Afrobarometer...
Cellular phone roaming charges in the Caribbean are soon to be a thing of the past. Digicel, a major telecommunications carrier is in the process of...
Stacy Spikes (pictured), is the founder and CEO of MoviePass – a company he founded in 2011. MoviePass, provides an app and movie theater subscription service....
Africa is teeming with creative talent in music, film and writing, however, until recently it lacked the channels through which new artistes could project what they...
Trinidad & Tobago in a partnership agreement with Uganda will lend its experience in the oil and gas industry in the development of the East African...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the nation’s mortgage finance system, including shutting down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie...
The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) says its members are not involved in any industrial action as the Antigua-based airline, LIAT, deals with a number...
India and China are actively competing for business on the increasingly important African continent. The demand for resources to fuel their rapidly growing economies is playing...
Following a four-year contraction in economic activity in St. Kitts & Nevis, signs of an economic recovery are now emerging. According to a report data provided...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP The number of African Americans seeking employment has dropped...
As the trade dispute between Haiti and the Dominican Republic drags on, the North Region Industries Association (AIREN) of the Dominican Rebulic, has requested for the...
Armstrong Williams Armstrong Williams a conservative commentator and entrepreneur has revealed that he intends to acquire the WMMP-TV in Charleston, South Carolina through his company, Howard...
(Reuters) – Gabon has informed the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it will hold a licensing round for offshore oil blocks later this year, and that...
Entrepreneurship in Jamaica is on the rise – and this partly fueled by a persistently high unemployment rate – national unemployment currently stands at 14 percent...
The partnership between Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry has yielded results – only 9 months after it was announced that Perry would start to produces shows...
With several multi-million-dollar investments coming to its islands and a new US$3 billion resort in Nassau opening later this year, the Bahamas is on its way...
(PR Newswire) – Johannesburg – Gold Fields Limited is pleased to announced the appointment of Alfred Baku (pictured), as Head of its West Africa Region, the...
(Black PR Wire) – Miami, Florida – The Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce has announced the appointment of Jesse L. Brooks (pictured), as their Interim CEO, in...
The five East African Community countries including Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda are edging closer to establishing a single currency. The creation of the monetary...
Jamaica says it is confident the island-nation will start to see economic growth as it implements the multi-million Economic Reform Program with assistance from the International...
Law makers in Ghana have revised investment laws to rectify the abuse of sectors reserved for citizens of Ghana by foreign investors, particularly in the retail...
The Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will put pressure on offshore companies seeking to do business in the Caribbean, says Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart....
Darren Walker – Incoming president of the Ford Foundation. PHOTO/Ford Foundation Darren Walker, who emerged from small-town Texas to an international career in law and finance...
Aliko Dangote African capital markets and investment landscape are quite bullish for investors; greater returns of 30 percent dividends or even more on average investment have...
The on-going trade row between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has prompted the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs of the Dominican Republic known as ANJE, to...
Director Ryan Coogler speaks at the premiere of ‘Fruitvale Station’ June 17, 2013. PHOTO/Michael Buckner/Getty Images (Reuters) – Two years out of the University of Southern...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil West Africa’s insurance companies and commercial banks are setting up subsidiaries in East Africa to take advantage of the oil...
(PR Republic) – The Ethics Institute of South Africa (EthicsSA) has launched a survey to gauge perceptions about Chinese companies doing business across 15 African countries....
The St. Kitts & Nevis government says it will extend the tax breaks granted to first time home owners as its seeks to boost growth in...
Africans at Work. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa (Bloomberg Businessweek)- South African vehicle sales growth will probably ease to the slowest pace since a 2009 recession this year...
Bank of Barbados Governor, Delisle Worrell. PHOTO/FP The Governor of the Bank of Barbados, Delisle Worrell says self confidence will help the island overcome its economic...
Barbara Jacques – founder, CEO and Creative Director, Jacq’s Organics. PHOTO/Barbara Jacques (Black PR Wire) – Leaders are defined as those who know how to take...
Robert F. Smith founder, Chairman and CEO Vista Equity Partners Robert F. Smith is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners – a private...
The Antigua & Barbuda-based regional airline, LIAT (Leeward Islands Air Transport), Friday said the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank is providing US$65 million in loans to the...
Jamaica’s first crowd funding platform, isupportjamaica.com has been launched the island-nation’s leading microfinance company – the Jamaica National Small Business Loans Limited (JNSBL). The isupportjamaica crowd...
Kevyn Orr. PHOTO/Jones Day/AP Detroit, once the very symbol of American industrial might, became the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy Thursday, its finances ravaged...
Aerial view of some buildings within the Montego Bay Free Zone. PHOTO/Montego Bay Free Zone Co. Ltd Employment at the Montego Bay Free Zone in Jamaica...
Press Release The U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) is hosting its annual School of Chamber Management (SCM), July 16 – 19, at the Georgetown University Hotel...
Power pylons in Nigeria Nigeria’s federal government continues to tout opportunities for private investment in its huge electricity sector. The federal minister of of State for...
Imagine a situation where your uncle in a remote village in Africa suddenly does not have to travel one day to reach a bank, only to...
Antigua & Barbuda on Wednesday said it had established a select committee to oversee the implementation process, as the twin-island nation seeks to suspend certain concessions...
Press Release Bounce TV, America’s fast-growing and only broadcast television network for African Americans, has announced a sweeping range of renewals and new launches by major...
The state-owned bank First Citizens Bank (FCB) has launched its initial public offering (IPO) of more than 48 million ordinary shares on Monday in a move...
Sanoussi Diakité (pictured), a Senegalese entrepreneur is tackling food security in West Africa. Diakité has invented a machine that processes cereal in a fraction of the...
Ethiopian Airlines – Africa’s fastest growing carriers has has acquired 49 percent equity shares in the new Malawian Air, becoming a major strategic partner of the...
As Haiti rises from the ashes and shakes off its difficult past, the Martelly administration is working to position the country as the next hot destination...
Press Release The National Black MBA Association, Inc. announced its 35th Annual Conference and Exposition, September 10 — 14, 2013 at the George R. Brown Convention...
Africa’s economy is growing faster than any other continent, according to the African Development Bank. A new report from the African Development Bank said one-third of...
LIME (Landline Internet Mobile and Entertainment), the Caribbean business of Cable & Wireless Communications, has launched 4G HSPA+ mobile data services in St. Lucia. LIME rolled...
Didier Drogba formerly of Chelsea holds the UEFA Champions League trophy after his team’s final soccer match against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in Munich,...
Aliko Dangote Aliko Dangote is on track to spend up to $15 billion pursuing investment opportunities on the African continent in the next 4-5 years. Dangote...
The economy of Barbados contracted during the first six months of the year with the main foreign exchange sectors also suffering a decline, according to the...
Sasol Gas Engine Power Plant located in Sasolburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Press release, 10 July 2013 at 9 am EET The largest power plant running exclusively...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – Charlotte, N.C – Carolinas Minority Supplier Development Council’s annual Business Opportunity Conference (BOC) offers a unique platform to get ahead and lead the race...
Thousands of mineworkers at the world’s top platinum producer Anglo American Platinum in South Africa have returned to work after a brief wildcat strike, the company...
By Tony Elumelu Last week was the first time, in my memory, that a US president came to Africa with investment at the top of his...
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Center will launch a seminal on-line support tool in St. Lucia on Friday July 12 2013 in keeping with the thrust...
(PRNewswire) – Torrance, California – The Act-1 Group, Inc., a global leader in the human resources industry, is proud to announce that the company’s Chairman, founder...
By Christopher Duff A lot of people do not realize that the entire landscape of the business world is shifting. Most of us only hear about...
Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise company, last week announced that Arnold W. Donald (pictured), will become the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Donald replaces Micky...
Akinwumi Adesina – Nigeria’s minister for Agriculture. PHOTO/Getty Images When President Goodluck Jonathan was elected two years ago, he pledged reforms that would transform the lives...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart The major challenge facing the Barbados economy is to reduce the fiscal deficit in order to determine a policy that finds...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is looking to raise J$107.8 million (US$1,070,001.24) to retire debt and offer new services, according to its prospectus for an initial...
The oil-rich twin-island nation of Trinidad & Tobago has assumed the chairmanship of CARICOM (Caribbean Community) from Haiti, following the expiration of the latter’s six-month rotating...
(PRNewswire) – Syngenta announced today that it will acquire MRI Seed Zambia Ltd and MRI Agro Ltd (“MRI”), a leading developer, producer and distributor of white...
Regional airline, LIAT (Leeward Islands Air Transport), which is in the process of acquiring a fleet of new aircraft, Wednesday said it was increasing the cost...
A worker at the Petroleum Refinery plant in Mombasa, Kenya. PHOTO/Daily Nation Africa-focused oil company Tullow Oil has made a new oil discovery in Kenya’s Lokichar...
Breanna Collins was one of 14 girls who built a video game at the Black Girls Code session in the fall of 2011. PHOTO/Black Girls Code...
Mo Abudu. PHOTO/File A woman who could be considered Africa’s Oprah Winfrey is launching an entertainment network that will be beamed into nearly every country on...
(Bloomberg) – Ecobank Transnational Inc. is seeking a new investment banking chief as Africa’s most geographically diverse lender hires people across the continent to tap growth....
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. IMAGE/Boeing The chief executive of Ethiopian Airlines says that his company has pocketed a record profit despite the temporary grounding of...
Jerome Almon. PHOTO/BiztechAfrica U.S. war veteran and businessman Jerome Almon, is in the process of launching a US$100 billion initiative to rally the support of African...
(PRNewswire) – San Fransico, California – As part of its commitment to diversity and inclusion, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) employed four diverse-owned investment banks...
(Reuters) – Uganda has agreed to a plan to build a pipeline from its oilfields to a new port being developed on Kenya’s northern coast, Uganda’s...
The Perry Christie administration in the Bahamas, has revealed that the state-owned Bahamasair continues to suffer from high labor costs; an ageing fleet; escalating fuel costs;...
Agreement Supports RLJ Financials’ Plan to Provide Viable Alternative to Payday Lending for Consumers in Need of Short Term and Emergency Borrowing (PRNewswire) – Bethesda, Maryland...
Air traffic controllers at Jamaica’s two international airports have vowed to continue protest and industrial action again this week despite a back to work order obtained...
(Ventures Africa) – FedEx Corporation announced Thursday June 20, that it has finalized the first phase of a strategic acquisition of businesses run by its current...
Air traffic supervisors have been monitoring flights to and from Jamaica because controllers are calling in sick over a pay dispute with management. The Jamaica Civil...
RLJ Companies Chairman and CEO Robert L. Johnson. PHOTO/File (Business Wire) – Silver Spring, Maryland – RLJ Entertainment Inc., announced Tuesday June 19 2013, that Robert...
Patrice Motsepe, founder and chairman of African Rainbow Mineral Ltd. PHOTO/Simon Dawson/Getty Images Earlier this year we reported that South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe had pledged...
Aspiring visual artists hoping to sketch out a promising future flocked on Thursday to an animation industry conference in Jamaica, which hopes to become the next...
Environmental Damage caused by past oil spill in Nigeria. PHOTO/File Nigeria’s oil spill detection and response agency (NOSDRA) has presented a bill to the federal legislature...
Wigton wind farm in Manchester, Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner A report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has found that the Caribbean and Latin America’s renewable...
Halle (l) and Brea Holmes. PHOTO/Andy DeLisle/Bloomberg Businessweek Brea (19) and Halle (13) Holmes are the founders and chief executive officers of Sweet Dreams Girlz, a...
The BRCK modem was designed and built with African conditions in mind. The BRCK modem – a modem designed specifically for Africa has been been has...
Bermuda Premier Craig Cannonier. PHOTO/Royal Gazette Bermuda says it has not signed a tax avoidance treaty with Britain insisting that it would do nothing to jeopardize...
Net remittances to Jamaica by Jamaicans abroad. IMAGE/Bank of Jamaica In a bid to kick start Jamaica’s economy, the island-nation is actively wooing its citizens living...
Remittances from Africans in the diaspora are now estimated at around US$60 billion annually and are said to have surpassed traditional western aid. While these help...
Jamaica has given the new board of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Airlines one month to indicate how it intends to use the Air Jamaica brand...
Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi – Incoming Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Kenya’s Mukhisa Kituyi is the new Secretary-General of UN Conference on...