Aliko Dangote Forbes magazine says Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian tycoon who built his empire on commodities like flour, sugar and cement, is Africa’s richest man. Dangote...
To ensure the success of Nigeria’s cashless scheme, the Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed plans to introduce incentives for traders through commercial banks. While speaking...
Leanna Archer. PHOTO/Farriella/New York Daily News Sixteen-year old Leanna Archer is the founder and CEO of of Leanna’s Inc., a creator and marketer of hair and...
Kelvin Doe. PHOTO/Paula Aguilera, MIT Media Lab At the age of 13, Kelvin Doe, while living in Sierra Leone created batteries and generators using materials he...
Jamaica went deeper into recession in the third quarter, during which the economy contracted by 0.6 percent year over year, said the Planning Institute of Jamaica...
The mobile phone has entirely changed the story of banking in Africa. Today a cellular phone is an all-purpose bank account, an Automated banking machine (ABM/ATM)...
(Trinidad Express) BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) has made an estimated 1 trillion cubic feet natural gas discovery off Trinidad’s south east coast, the company said...
Tamar-Melissa Huggins founder and CEO of Driven Accelerator Group Tamar-Melissa Huggins is founder and CEO of Driven Accelerator Group – a digital startup accelerator for businesses...
Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigeria’s biggest listed company, Dangote Cement revealed early this month that it expects pretax profit to hit 143 billion naira (US$910...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP The US economy is growing again, but African-American women...
Africans at Work. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South Africa’s government is working with its partners to ensure that by the year 2020 some 1.2 million vehicles will...
Investors are forming partnerships and increasing manpower to take advantage of the opportunities for private equity investors in sub-Saharan Africa. A private equity value chain is...
A stem cell emerging from rat bone marrow. PHOTO/Imperial College London Former Bahamas Minister of Health Dr. Marcus Bethel has warned of the potential for abuse...
Many African-Americans want to run their own businesses. Some surveys show that African-Americans are more interested in running their own businesses than whites. African-Americans are more...
The Jamaican central bank is projecting that the economy will contract in the current quarter as a result of the negative impact of Hurricane Sandy. Bank...
Tabatha Turman, founder and CEO of Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions Tabatha Turman is the founder, President and CEO, Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions (IFAS). Ms....
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
A recent World Bank report has found there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of people joining the middle class in the Caribbean...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says his administration expects to soon award exploration licenses for two offshore blocks that he hopes may eventually provide a petroleum...
Dropifi founders.,Kamil Nabong (l), David Osei (c) and Effah Philips Mensah (r). PHOTO/Dropifi Dropifi, a startup tech company in Ghana has taken the top spot in...
The world may not be flat, but the Internet has created a level playing field where the opportunities are greater and there are more routes to...
A Shopper in Kampala, Uganda. PHOTO/Panos /Mikkel Ostergaard Africa’s large, fast-growing population, combined with rising consumer disposable income, offers companies an enormous opportunity, a new survey...
Oprah Winfrey. PHOTO/File Oprah is going organic. According to five trademark applications filed at the end of October with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the...
Farell Duclair – athlete, educator, entrepreneur and founder of the Everest Academy Former football star player in the Canadian Football League (CFL) Farrell Duclair is the...
“There is no template for doing business in Africa. One can also clearly not base one’s investment decisions on data from a spreadsheet.” So says professional...
(Reuters) – Rescuers have ended their search for survivors of a shopping mall collapse in Ghana’s capital Accra last week which killed at least 14 people,...
Nigerian teenagers, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola and Faleke Oluwatoyin with their urine powered generator. PHOTO/BBC In a breakthrough, four teenage schoolgirls in Nigeria have invented a...
Legislators in Jamaica have unanimously approved two bills that will allow casinos to be built on the island for the first time. Jamaica currently has only...
(Reuters) – Exxon has shut a pipeline off the coast of Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom state after an oil leak started. The cause of the leak has...
Cameroon and the local subsidiary of a Chinese manufacturer have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a multi-million dollar plant for environment-friendly vehicles in...
Caribbean Export Development Agency head Pamela Coke-Hamilton has expressed concern over the burden the forthcoming Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is placing on the region’s...
Robert O. Agbede., President and CEO of Chester Engineers Nigerian born Robert O. Agbede is the President and CEO and owner of Chester Engineers – the...
After four years of leadership Dr. Eric Lee (pictured), President and CEO of the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce to become Executive Director of Colorado Community...
Jamaica’s borrowing costs are surging to the highest level in nine months after defaults by two Caribbean neighbors combine with the region’s slowest economic growth prospects...
Africans at Work. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa Africa’s recent robust growth is sustainable and the continent can attract even more investors if it plays its cards well,...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) — The Pan African Entrepreneurs Conference (PAEC) takes place November 15-18, 2012, in Houston, TX at the Four Seasons Hotel. PAEC is an arena for...
Kenya Airways on Monday announced a KSh4.8 billion (US$ 56 million) half-year loss, the second highest in its history, and followed up the bad news with...
Republic Bank in Trinidad says it has received the green light from the regulatory authorities in Barbados to make an offer to purchase the remaining shares...
The top floors of a five-story shopping center built earlier this year in a suburb of Ghana’s capital collapsed Wednesday, killing at least one person and...
Trinidad & Tobago has recorded an increase in the number of people unemployed during the first three months of the year, according to figures released by...
(Barbados Nation) – The search for oil offshore Barbados could now begin as early as next year. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told Parliament today, as he...
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu founder and CEO of SoleRebels. PHOTO/SoleRebels Celebrated African entrepreneur – the founder and CEO of Ethiopian footwear company, SoleRebels, Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, has...
At a two day international conference on the financial services sector in St. John’s, Antigua, a leading international expert has urged Caribbean nations to stand their...
Wayne Purboo – co-founder, president and CEO of QuickPlay Media Inc. PHOTO/QuickPlay Media Inc. Jamaican born Wayne Purboo is the co-founder, president and CEO of Toronto-based...
Verone Mankou with his Way-C tablet. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Africa has made promising leaps in the tech space over the past few years. Hubs in Kenya, South...
Hurricane Sandy is being blamed in Jamaica for what vendors say is an alarming increase in the prices of most agricultural produce. Based on preliminary information...
A graphic collection of Apps built in Africa. IMAGE/File Africans are making a bid to turn the continent of Africa into the new home of mobile...
A budget airline in South Africa says that it has applied for liquidation. 1Time Airline said Friday that all of its operations have been grounded with...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and hiring...
(Reuters) – A union representing workers at Kenya’s main port of Mombasa called off a strike on Friday after the management issued letters of employment to...
Heather Hiles founder and CEO of Pathbrite Heather Hiles is the founder and current CEO of Pathbrite, formerly called Ripplesend. Pathbrite provides an e-Portfolio application/ platform...
The sale Butterfield Bank Barbados Limited, a subsidiary of Bank of NT Butterfield and Son Limited to Trinidad bank First Citizens was part of a strategy...
Platinum miners at work at the Unki mine in Zimbabwe. PHOTO/AFP Anglo American Platinum, the world’s largest miner of the metal, has agreed to transfer majority...
Oprah Winfrey. PHOTO/File Two of the most powerful women in media — Oprah Winfrey and Arianna Huffington — are joining forces. The two on Thursday launched...
The economic toll of Hurricane Sandy on The Bahamas could be as high as US$ 300 million, according to a regional insurance organization. The Caribbean Catastrophe...
Alex Ihama Alex Ihama, is a Life Coach, Author and Inspirational Speaker who has been delivering keynotes to variety of audiences all over the world for...
Wigton wind farm in Manchester, Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner A new Jamaican company is aiming to establish a 24-megawatt wind farm in central Jamaica within a few...
Danny Simms. PHOTO/Hayes Sahlan Danny Sims, who has died aged 75, was one of the first black music entrepreneurs and the first non-Jamaican to recognise the...
MTN Uganda has launched a multi-million dollar Switching and Data Center in Mutundwe, just outside Kampala, and in addition, a new MTN Business Unit that will...
Aliko Dangote, founder, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group Sephaku Cement- a subsidiary of Dangote Cement and an indigenous player in South Africa’s cement...
Grenada which has announced 2013 as the scheduled start of several major initiatives – including the beginning of construction of a new parliament building – is...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil A shortage of trained oil and gas workers in East Africa is slowing development of new fields following a series...
Around 11,000 farmers are thought to have been affected by Hurricane Sandy as it swept through Jamaica last week. Minister of State in the Ministry of...
South Africa today indicted that it was ready to host a planned development bank for the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) grouping of...
Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman, CEO and co-founder Capri Capital partners Quintin E. Primo, III is a Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of Capri Capital...
Funke Opeke CEO of Main One Cable. PHOTO/File The CEO of the Main One Cable company, Ms. Funke Opeke has won the 2012 CNBC All Africa...
Governor of the Barbados Central Bank., Delisle Worrell. PHOTO/FP (Barbados Nation) – Barbados Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell has gone head-to-head with the International Monetary...
Bob Collymore., CEO of mobile operator Safaricom (Kenya). PHOTO/File A profile of Guyana native, Bob Collymore; the CEO of East Africa’s largest mobile operator, Safaricom. What...
Mellody Hobson. PHOTO/Ariel Investments LLC Mellody Hobson becomes the Chairperson of DreamWorks Animation following the resignation of Roger Enrico. Hobson, 43, is president of Chicago-based Ariel...
A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) plane with 52 people on board made an emergency landing at the Piarco International Airport (Trinidad & Tobago) on Friday after the...
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) in South Africa has been rated the top business school in Africa at the 5th...
Barbados has set up a select committee to determine whether the country should enter an intergovernmental agreement with the United States government on the Foreign Account...
Highly acclaimed architect.,David Adjaye. PHOTO/File David Adjaye, the architect chosen to design Washington DC’s US$500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture, has topped...
Projected path of Hurricane Sandy. IMAGE/U.S. National Hurricane Center The Meteorological Service has discontinued the Hurricane Warning for Jamaica as significant improvement in weather conditions are...
Striking South African gold miners have signed a pay deal to end months of labor unrest, the country’s main mining union and mine owners said on...
A rental company in Johannesburg, South Africa, is fighting an attempt by online giant eBay to shut down its RentBay website. Tenant Profile Network (TPN) received...
The housing market in Jamaica has been on a minor upswing. Demand for mid to upper priced homes worth J$25 million (US$ 277,000) and above has...
The Forbes Africa Person of the Year has announced the top five candidates for this years title. The winner of this award would have had an...
John Washington Rogers Jr., founder, CEO & Chairman of Ariel Capital Management (now Ariel Investments, LLC) John Washington Rogers Jr., is the founder, CEO & Chairman...
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has revealed that her administration is now discussing a draft Letter of Intent that will embody its commitments during the period...
Student using Internet resources in Nairobi. PHOTO/Africa Business Source Enthusiatss and leaders of the Internet community in Africa have unveiled a comprehensive plan designed to dramatically...
By 2050, Nigeria will be the most populous country in the world and the African economy will be bigger than that of the United States and...
The Bahamas is gaining momentum in the financial services industry, rising into the top three for specialized financial centers. The Bahamas ranks third behind the Cayman...
(PRWEB) – Xoom Corporation, a pioneer and leader in online consumer-to-consumer money transfer services to Jamaica, has announced its partnership with Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery &...
The Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) has grounded Fly Montserrat following the second incident involving the airline on Tuesday when the plane skidded off the...
Angola on Wednesday launched a US$5 billion sovereign wealth fund to invest in domestic and overseas assets by funnelling its vast oil wealth into infrastructure and...
(Caribbean Journal) – Antigua & Barbuda has begun a series of consultations on a proposed Citizenship by Investment programme in the country. The first of four...
South Sudan plans to resume oil shipments in February 2013 once its parliament ratifies a raft of deals reached last month in Addis Ababa with the...
African-Americans in Senior Level Positions Can Deliver Greater Shareholder Value to the Bottom Line (PRNewswire) – The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), comprised of current and former...
Richard John Pelwana Maponya. PHOTO/African Success The African Leadership Network, the membership network of new generation leaders in Africa, and Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm,...
Ken Tillage co-founder, co-owner and CEO of Tillage Construction LLC Ken Tillage is the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of Tillage Construction LLC. Tillage Construction LLC, based...
Africa appears to hold amazing potential for greater prosperity. The land is rich in natural resources with much fertile ground for agriculture and a population that...
(BGIS) – Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, has sent a clear message that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) is still a “front...
(The East African) – Uganda’s electricity distributor, Umeme, will launch the country’s biggest initial public offer (IPO) on Monday, October 15, hoping to attract investors across...
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and U.S. Black Chamber Inc. have teamed up to help small minority businesses access guidance on federal contracting, face-to-face meetings,...
The Cabinet Secretary in the Simpson-Miller People’s National Party (PNP) administration Ambassador Douglas Saunders has revealed that the recent elimination of about 3,000 jobs from the...
Foreign investors often cite a difference in business cultures as one of the challenges of operating in Africa. However, even local African business people need to...
Kenyans deposited US$8 billion into mobile money services for the year ending June 2012 – a 38 percent rise that revealed why the country’s government has...
Clarence Otis Jr., CEO of Darden Restaurants. PHOTO/Allison Shirreffs Darden Restaurants CEO Clarence Otis Jr., believes that his company is on track to achieving higher profits....
Guyana is reporting an overall increase in gold production, declaration and sales, with production recording 314,000 ounces, an increase of about 23 percent over the corresponding...
Nigerian farmers (r-r) Alali Efanga, Friday Alfred Akpan-Ikot Ada Udo, Chief Fidelis Oguru Oruma and Eric Dooh sit in the court in The Hague, Netherlands, 11...
Jeff Clanagan founder and CEO CodeBlack Entertainment Jeff Clanagan is the founder and CEO of CodeBlack Entertainment, a company he founded in 2005. Clanagan was spurred...
The growth of data traffic and Internet and social media users has been the big story over the last two years. But more quietly behind the...
Doctors in the Bahamas will perform the country’s first stem cell procedure essentially opening the flood gates to a cutting-edge technique with serious medical tourism potential....
Russell Simmons Russell Simmons has made a career and a fortune programming to audiences that the mainstream media has ignored. The hip-hop impresario co-founded the Def...
The Caribbean’s biggest tourism conference, attracting stakeholders from across the region, opens today at the St Kitts Marriott Resort and Casino. The Caribbean Tourism Organization State...
Africa has huge potential when it comes to technology start-ups. IMAGE/stock.xchng Industry analysts make an interesting point about fledgling technology businesses in Africa: unlike markets generally...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas Standard & Poor’s (S & P) has lowered its foreign currency sovereign credit ratings on Grenada following a missed bond payment,...
With a surcharge on wire transfers and international phone calls into Haiti generating only between US$40 million and US$50 million for education, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe...
Bujagali Hydropower Plant (Business Wire) – Completion of project showcases successful public-private partnership for infrastructure development, bringing together the Government of Uganda, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS...
(PRNewswire) – UTC Aerospace Systems held a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by dignitaries, partners and suppliers to celebrate the inauguration of its new Propeller Systems facility...
The economy of Haiti is projected to grow 6 percent in 2012, followed by 7.5 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2013, according to the...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last...
Debra Y. Carrington co-founder, Chairman and CEO of TurnerPatterson, LLC Debra Y. Carrington is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of TurnerPatterson, LLC. According to it’s website,...
A senior executive for British Airways has indicated that Caribbean Airlines Limited is benefiting from an unfair advantage of subsidized costs on its London – Caribbean...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group (Reuters) – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote on Thursday sold 63 percent of Dangote Flour to South...
The Jamaica government says it intends to introduce liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2015 as it seeks to make the island nation more competitive by reducing...
Organizations voted as the cream of Caribbean industry have been announced as winners of the Caribbean Business Awards. This year’s entrants ranged from new business start...
Robert L. Johnson Robert L. Johnson, Founder of The RLJ Companies, Will Serve as Executive Chairman of The New NASDAQ Publicly Traded Company. (PRNewswire) – Robert...
The South Africa government on Tuesday announced that it would help national carrier South African Airways with US$600 million of financing over two years, in a...
Amini Kajunju, President and CEO Africa-America Institute. PHOTO/Dani Wang/The Dartmouth (PR Newswire) – The Africa-America Institute (AAI), today announced the appointment of Amini Kajunju to the...
Tyler Perry, the prolific movie and television producer behind sitcoms like “House of Payne,” will soon start to produce shows exclusively for OWN, Oprah Winfrey’s cable...
(Reuters)- Some of the world’s biggest oil firms including Exxon Mobil and Shell are keen to play a part in developing Mozambique’s huge gas fields, an...
The Bahamas has the Caribbean’s freest economy, according to the Economic Freedom of the World rankings released by the Fraser Institute. The index published in Economic...
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones founder and CEO of “The Black Farmer®” range of products. Emmanuel-Jones was born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, moved to Britain at the...
A new business hub for African climate technology entrepreneurs was launched in Nairobi (Kenya) this past week to boost locally sourced green technologies in the Africa...
The regional airline, Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT), Friday announced changes to its flight schedule to and from Grenada where it faces possible industrial action by...
Wilfred Sam-King founder and CEO Sam-King Group Wilfred Sam-King is the founder and CEO of the Sam-King Group, which he founded in 1998 IN Sierra Leone....
Jamaica’s parliament has passed a bill offering a tax incentive for officers of global companies that set up their head offices in Jamaica. The Income Tax...
A drill worker listens for the bit, hundreds of feet underground, during exploratory drilling for minerals and metals Haiti. PHOTO/Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Haiti’s prime minister says...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) — The Oando Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Oando PLC, one of Africa’s leading indigenous energy solutions providers – is attending the Clinton Global...
The founder and proprietor of the newly launched magazine, Forbes Afrique, says the magazine will highlight successful business people as well as investment opportunities in francophone...
These fast-growing, private companies are led by African-American entrepreneurs who founded them and have transformed them into successful companies. Leonard Boyd, Founder and CEO Lux Consulting...
Standard & Poor’s (S & P) have revised the outlook on The Bahamas BBB rating from stable to negative. In the latest report from the S...
The company that makes BlackBerry smartphones is looking to Africa to help its troubled sales. Officials with Canadian-based Research In Motion told journalists in Lagos today...
Power pylons in Nigeria. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigeria announced on Tuesday the preferred bidders for five state power generation plants, part of plans to privatize the...
“Across Africa, we have seen countless examples of people taking control of their destiny, and making change from the bottom up.” – President Barack Obama Like...
Wednesday will mark a notable day in Metro Detroit television history as WXYZ (Channel 7, an ABC affiliate) will launch BOUNCE TV, considered in a press...
(Jamaica Gleaner) – It has now been confirmed that the Portia Simpson-Miller administration will announce plans to abandon its long-stated intention to introduce liquefied natural gas...
Arik Air, Nigeria’s largest airline will resume flying its domestic routes Sunday, the company’s managing director said, after publicly announcing it would stop flying. The airlines’...
Barbados has joined the growing list of Caribbean countries actively pursuing implementation of a vital component in developing the local technology sector: a domestic Internet exchange...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Even after absorbing a devastating economic hit from the Great Recession, African American consumers remain a potent force but are often overlooked by advertisers, according to...
Jamaica will be eliminating more positions from the public sector before the end of this year. This has been revealed by the country’s Finance and Planning...
Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air cancelled all domestic flights for a second day after a union under the country’s airports authority stopped its planes from flying...
Bill Bynum Bill Bynum, CEO of Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union, joined leaders from across the nation Wednesday to examine strategies for bolstering small business ownership...
Femi Akinde – Founder and CEO SlimTrader Femi Akinde, is the founder and CEO of SlimTrader, a company which is focusing on mobile payment technologies, mobile...
Activity of the Barbados Stock Exchange was given a little boost yesterday (September 19) when Royal Fidelity Merchant Bank & Trust (Barbados ) Limited brought two...
Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose in front of Giordano’s Pizza PHOTO/Bob Carl Deep dish pizza company Giordano’s has announced that the Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose,...
Jamaica is looking to implement a bill that would create a new tax exemption to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country, help stimulate the...
Jamaican bankers and financial stakeholders lobbying the Jamaican government to take on a US tax compliance rule, which require them to release client information to American...
Africa is on track to have working regional competition bodies by next year and businesses need to prepare themselves to navigate a plethora of rules or...
Digicel, which acquired Haiti’s Voila network earlier this year, will complete the integration of the network by October 15, the company announced. Digicel also announced that...
Despite all its cutting-edge technology, Google Inc., has turned to the humble text message to break into Nigeria’s booming economy. The search engine has started a...
Malmsey Rangaka – co-founder and CEO of M’hudi Wines Malmsey Rangaka is co-founder and CEO of M’hudi Wines, a family wine farm located in Stellenbosch, South...
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network has been hitting highs recently, and this past weekend was no exception. The week of September 10th marked OWN’s 35th consecutive week...
Striking platinum miners in South Africa have accepted an agreement for higher wages with London-registered Lonmin PLC and plan to return to work Thursday, a mediator...
The Caribbean Association of Banks is looking to expand its membership, covering institutions that are not indigenous to the region. Given that issues which affect banks...
David Mullings: co-founder and Business Development Manager Keystone Augusta Inc. Keystone Augusta Inc., is a private investment and diversified holdings company founded by Jamaicans Kirk Anthony...
“Afropreneur” Idris Ayodeji Bello – co-founder of Wennovation Hub Idris Ayodeji Bello, the “Afropreneur.” That’s the buzzword adopted by Bello to describe the bright, independent and...
The governments of Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada have signed a cooperation agreement for energy development. The agreement will advance the joint exploration and exploitation of...
Caribbean Oil. PHOTO/News Americas With several Caribbean countries embracing offshore oil drilling, nations in the region should step up their abilities to combat emergencies stemming from...
(MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Columbus International Inc. (“Columbus”) announced that it officially acquired formal approval to enter the Barbados telecommunications market. The approval includes the acquisition...
Cyril Ramaphosa Leading international paper and packaging group Mondi Group, co-owned by South African business man Cyril Ramaphosa, has signed an agreement with machinery supplier Duropack...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – The 100 Black Men of America, Inc., announces the installation of Curley M. Dossman, Jr. as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Dossman, a...
Eric-Vincent Guichard – founder of Homestrings An online platform that helps investors to find investment opportunities in Africa is widening its pool of potential clients. The...
A man’s rise from prison to the boardroom – a rise from grass to grace Tracey D. Syphax founder and CEO of Capitol City Contracting Inc....
Wigton wind farm in Manchester, Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica is undertaking a wind mapping study to determine wind blowing patterns and the best sites for erecting...
The European Union market has rejected a 200 tonne beef consignment from Botswana. The move follows the Botswana Meat Commission’s failed chemical risk assessment procedure. The...
(Reuters) – A leader of major protest by platinum miners in South Africa called on Thursday for a national strike in the sector “to bring the...
Mike Johns – founder and CEO of Digital Mind State Mike Johns is the Founder and President of Digital Mind State formerly known as UrbanWorld Wireless....
In 2010, the African Leadership Academy and The MasterCard Foundation announced the Anzisha Prize – a pan-African award that scouts and celebrates African entrepreneurs between the...
Patrice Motsepe, founder and chairman of African Rainbow Mineral Ltd. PHOTO/Simon Dawson/Getty Images South African mining billionaire Patrice Motsepe has indicated interest in British platinum producer...
Gail Warrior – founder and CEO of the Warrior Group Gail Warrior is the founder and CEO of the Warrior Group – the largest largest minority...
The Caribbean information communication and technology (ICT) road show opened in Bridgetown, Barbados on Monday with regional countries being called upon to develop their own blueprint...
(Reuters) — Kenya’s first offshore gas discovery is encouraging but not large enough for commercial production, the country’s energy minister revealed on Tuesday. Exploration firms Tullow...
Jamaica Prime Minister.,Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaica’s prime minister Portia Simpson-Miller is calling on private companies in the Caribbean country to each hire at least one more...
Yvonne Thompson – founder and CEO ASAP Communications. PHOTO/YvonneThompson.com Dr. Yvonne Thompson is the founder and CEO of ASAP Communications – a PR company she founded...
Dangote cement’ Obajana plant. PHOTO/File World-class technology and innovative training has catalyzed the success of Dangote Group, one of the largest trading and manufacturing conglomerates operating...
(Reuters) – Bahamas Petroleum Company Plc said its oil drilling permits were renewed by the newly elected government of Bahamas, ending months of speculation that they...
Oil and gas explorers usually look outside East Africa’s relatively smaller financial markets to more developed markets like the United States, Canada and Europe, for funding...
The World Economic Forum has released its Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013, which ranks economies in terms of national competitiveness. Of the 144 countries ranked, 38 are...
Christopher J. Williams – founder and CEO of The Williams Capital Group Christopher J. Williams is the founder, Chairman and CEO of The Williams Capital Group,...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Yuri Gripas/Reuters (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is not interested in replacing Pascal Lamy as head of the World Trade Organization (WTO)...
Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide – founder and Chairman of Arik Air Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide is the founder and Chairman of West Africa’s largest airline, Arik Air – a company...
PETROTRIN oil refinery in Trinidad & Tobago. PHOTO/File Long lines were being formed outside gas stations in Port of Spain, on Tuesday as motorists sought to...
(Reuters) – South African bullion miner Gold Fields said on Tuesday that trade union leadership intervention in a wildcat strike made a return to production more...
After nearly eleven months of arduous and painstaking evaluations and working tirelessly to meet the requirements of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Fly Jamaica Airways...
Traders on the floor of the Nairobi Stock Exchange Days before Facebook became a public company on 18 May, the hype behind the social network giant...
U.S. President Barack Obama looks at cars at the DC Auto Show at the Convention Center, January 31, 2012 on Washington, DC. PHOTO/Olivier Douliery/UPI America’s big...
Winners Development has announced a partnership with American World Clinics (AWC) to jointly develop an international medical center in Barbados. The US$100 million project will be...
(Reuters) – Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan are to resume talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to...
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Gruppo Campari has reached an agreement with the majority owner of Lascelles deMercado and Company to takeover the spirits conglomerate, in what it...
Amos L. Otis – founder and CEO SoBran Inc. PHOTO/Business Wire Amos L. Otis is the founder and CEO of SoBran Inc., one of the largest...
The development of sustainable urban infrastructure is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century. Professional services firm KPMG recently released its latest Infrastructure 100:...
Aliko Dangote Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, continues to expand his business footprint in Africa. Dangote Cement’s new plant currently under construction in Tanzania is expected to...
At least one of the entities that have been granted licences to operate in Jamaica as credit bureaus could start up by the end of the...
A section of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica refinery complex in Kingston, Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner In the wake of concerns about the rising gasoline prices in...
(PRNewswire)–The UK, Eurozone and US economies are facing surprising competition from an unexpected source according to research carried out by new website, AfricaTradePartners.com. With record numbers...