Air Jamaica brand facing extinction. In May 2011, Trindad & Tobago base Caribbean Airlines officially acquired a financially strapped Air Jamaica. The acquistion gave Air Jamaica...
Adebayo Ogunlesi. PHOTO/File Adebayo Ogunlesi, a Nigerian-born investment banker made international headlines when he led the acquisition of London’s Gatwick Airport from the British Airports Authority...
Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year 2011, Ludwick Marishane Last year, the then 21year-old Ludwick Marishane of Cape Town, South Africa was named the 2011 Global...
SkyBahamas a Bahamian carrier, is considering an exit from the international market if business does not improve – the effect of which will be to operate...
Over the last decade, intra African trade has emerged as a strong driver of growth across the continent. Competition among financial institutions in East Africa is...
Kwabena Smith – Founder and Executive Chairman Orun Energy. PHOTO/Orun Energy Nigeria’s Kwabena Smith is the founder and executive chairman of Orun Energy – a global...
A fire broke out on the roof Tyler Perry studios in Atlanta. PHOTO/News Chopper 2 Firefighters are investigating a fire that broke out at filmmaker Tyler...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s gold mining companies have been hit by union demands for wage hikes but the industry has little room to budge as current...
Artistic Impression of the Konza Techno City. IMAGE/File Property developers are building satellite cities and new housing compounds on the outskirts of some of the largest...
Fly Jamaica Airways is one step closer to officially begin operations. On Friday the airline tested a Boeing 757 aircraft by taking to the skies and...
Joy Rohadfox – President and CEO, Rohadfox Construction Control Services. PHOTO/Rohadfox Construction Joy Rohadfox is the President & CEO of Rohdadfox Construction Control Services., having assumed...
(Barbados Nation) Policyholders in Barbados have lost their ten-year-old BBD$163 million (US$81.5 million) class action suit against Canadian insurance giant Manulife. The suit against Manulife, was...
The government of Jamaica in a bid to encourage growth in entrepreneurship, has doubled its allocation of grants available to entrepreneurs to JAM$ 42 million (US$...
MedAfrica Screenshot. IMAGE/Shimba Technologies All-in-one Healthcare Solution, MedAfrica, is becoming the go-to app for tens of thousands of Kenyans and Shimba Technologies has plans to expand...
Caribbean Airlines Ltd., has received its third Avions de Transport Regional (ATR) aircraft as part of its ongoing fleet expansion. The new plane ATR 72-600 is...
Experts negotiating rules for unifying economic policies of the five East African Community countries have turned to West Africa for lessons on integration as the Eurozone...
Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) has indicated that is has cancelled additional flights as a result on Tropical Storm Isaac – which may upgrade into a...
Randal Pinkett Dr. Randal Pinkett, season four winner of NBC’s The Apprentice and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BCT Partners, a national consulting firm delivering a...
South African and American lawyers are asking a court to allow thousands of miners with lung diseases to sue leading South African gold mining companies they...
Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter. PHOTO/File With an entertainment career that has lasted over 16 years, Jay-Z has demonstrated incredible staying power and an intuitive acumen possessed only...
Isaac Olowolafe Jr. – President & CEO of both Dream Maker Realty Inc. and Dream Fund Holdings Isaac Olowolafe Jr. is the President and CEO of...
Jamaica posted an unemployment rate of 14.3 percent (representing approximately 180,000 peop) in April 2012. The rate of unemployment is the highest posted since January 2000....
(Reuters) – South Sudan expects to restart some oil output in December and more after June next year, an official said on Tuesday, after the new...
Oil Refinery in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. PHOTO/File It is hoped that the new reforms will increase oil revenues for Nigeria, drastically reduce on corruption in the...
The Bahamas government says it will hold a referendum on gambling but it will not extend to casinos. Prime Minister Perry Christie told legislators that his...
Caribbean BETA, will be hosting the annual tech entrepreneurship conference in Kingston, Jamaica November 16, 2012. According to its’ website Caribbean BETA aims to promote tech...
Haiti President Michel Martelly has appointed Haitian businessman Gregory Mevs as the co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on Economic Growth and Investment. Mevs replaces Laurent...
The government of Bahamas will get an opportunity to discuss its plan to regain control of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) with Wall Street credit ratings...
Amos Winbush III, founder and CEO of CyberSynchs Amos Winbush III, is the founder and CEO of CyberSynchs. CyberSynchs is a technology firm located in New...
Barbados will host this year’s XV Inter-American Microenterprise Forum (Foromic 2012) from October 1 to 3, marking the first time ever that the event will be...
While U.S. and European banks suffer hangovers from the Great Recession and continued shock waves inside the eurozone, banks in Africa have never looked stronger or...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson. PHOTO/File High School and College students received a few basic principles on how to succeed in business from legendary basketball star, Earvin “Magic”...
August is the ninth annual National Black Business Month, founded by engineer F.E. Jordan Sr. and historian John William Templeton, to raise visibility of U.S. businesses...
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) this week raised the short-term sovereign credit rating on Jamaica to “B” from “C.” The ratings firm also affirmed its “B-” long-term...
Warren G. Salmon – founder and CEO of Black Board International & First Fridays Warren G. Salmon is the founder and CEO of Black Board International...
Dangote continues to expand his business empire in Africa. Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is set to build a US $500 million cement plant in Zambia after...
The U. S. Small Business Administration and U.S. Black Chamber Inc., signed a historic, Strategic Alliance Memorandum during the recent White House Business Leaders Briefing: “Celebrating...
Employees of Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) Airlines at the Maurice Bishop International Airport in Grenada went on strike today around noon and as a result,...
Arthur Zang with the cardiopad Arthur Zang, a 24 year-old engineer from Cameroon, has invented the Cardiopad, a touch screen medical tablet that enables heart examinations...
Satellite image of the mass of land reclaimed for the Eko Atlantic City. PHOTO/File It is widely expected that Nigeria will overtake South Africa as the...
The Bank of Barbados said Monday that the principal impact of the weak economic environment on the local financial sector continues to be anaemic loan growth...
I.B.M. is opening a research center in Nairobi, adding an African lab to its global network. Kenya will be the fourth nation where I.B.M. has opened...
The unemployment rate in Trinidad & Tobago fell to 4.2 percent in the last quarter of 2011, according to a report from Trinidad’s Central Statistical Office....
New housing development in Vaucluse -St. Thomas, Barbados. PHOTO/Terra Caribbean Citizens of Barbados still want to build their dream home despite a tough economic climate and...
Valerie Daniels-Carter – founder and CEO V & J Foods Inc. Valerie Daniels-Carter is the founder and CEO of V & J Foods Inc., a company...
(Reuters) – A Kenyan court has temporarily stopped national carrier Kenya Airways from retrenching its employees until a suit brought by the workers union challenging the...
Peggy Dodson., CEO and President of the Urban Broadcasting Company A Harlem entrepreneur will try to defy all the odds and launch a new cable-TV network...
Cayman Islands Premier., McKeeva Bush. PHOTO/File Two days after scrapping plans to impose a controversial “community enhancement fee” on foreign workers, Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush...
In 2011 Africa-China bilateral trade reached US$166 billion, an increase of 300 percent over 2006 figures and China’s direct investments in Africa are now nearly US$15...
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. IMAGE/Boeing Ethiopian Airlines becomes the first African carrier to use the Boeing 787 Dreamliner with its first aircraft set to be...
As rival automakers move cautiously into Africa, Renault SA is building the continent’s biggest assembly plant in a bet that buyers there are poised to shift...
A street in down town Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Kenya’s capital Nairobi is planning to bid for the 2024 Olympics and become the first African...
Khary Sharpe – founder and CEO Bakari Digital Khary Sharpe is the founder and CEO of Bakari Digital, a web and mobile application software development company...
Cayman Islands Premier., McKeeva Bush. PHOTO/File The Cayman Islands has scrapped plans to impose an income tax on foreign workers just two weeks after Premier McKeeva...
Artistic Impression of the Konza Techno City. IMAGE/File A two-day Konza Techno City Investors Conference started on Tuesday Aug. 7, with a major announcement regarding which...
(Reuters) – Africa’s growth could rise to 7 percent by the year 2015 – the growth driven by a rush of investors attracted by its drive...
Former Congressman J.C. Watts – founder and senior partner Oakcrest Capital Partners., LLC Former Congressman Julius Caesar (J.C.) Watts is the founder and senior partner of...
Newly elected Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has defended the decision of his administration to regain majority control of the Bahamas Telephone Company that had been...
A government tribunal fined South Africa’s Telkom SA Ltd. US$54.8 million Tuesday over a decade-long case alleging the company used its monopoly to put unfair prices...
In a sign that the economy is still in the early stages of recovery, the African-American unemployment rate in July dipped slighty to 14.1 percent, from...
(Reuters) – Kenya Airways plans to shed staff through voluntary retirement, redundancies and outsourcing of non-core roles in order to contain soaring costs and protect its...
Charles H. James III – Chairman and CEO of C.H. James & Co. PHOTO/BlackEnterprise Charles H. James III is the Chairman and CEO of C.H. James...
Scrap-metal dealers, who have been in limbo for the last several months, were disappointed on Monday as the government of Jamaica unveiled tough new regulations for...
Jason Njoku Jason Njoku | Age: 31 | Founder/CEO, Iroko Partners Iroko Partners is the world’s largest online distributor of Nigerian films. Njoku has described the...
The Board of Directors of LIAT Airline today announced the appointment of Captain Ian Arthur Brunton as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from August 1,...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the licence held by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is not exclusive, paving the way for other players to enter...
Business is booming on the continent of Africa, which means an increased need for talent management. In recognition of this, the popular Best Employers research is...
Abdu Sekalala. PHOTO/File Meet Abdu Sekalala a 22-year-old Ugandan IT student. Sekalala has made a fortune from building mobile apps – benefiting from Africa’s fast-growing telecommunications...
(PRNewswire) – In an effort to bring renewed focus to the rich histories of the African Diaspora and its lasting impression on the Caribbean, the island...
Africa is growing, and it is become an increasingly popular belief that now is the time to invest on the continent. Here are five note-worthy trends...
Mexican animal health officials examining poultry at a commercial farm in Jalisco in late June 2012. PHOTO/Mexico Agriculture Department Barbados has banned the importation of live...
President Obama’s speech to the National Urban League conference in New Orleans on Wednesday night coincides with a debate over the role of government in helping...
Africa is growing, and African companies need cash to expand. Investors want in on the action, especially given low returns in many other parts of the...
South Korean company Samsung has emerged the preferred bidder to develop liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure in Jamaica. Jamaica has set up a committee that is...
Mariéme Jamme – founder and CEO Spot One Global solutions. PHOTO/CNN Mariéme Jamme, a serial entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Spot One Global solutions,...
A graphic collection of Apps built in Africa. IMAGE/File MTN Business is to sponsor the first ever App of the Year 2012 awards. MTN Business App...
Barbados has launched the ‘eZpay service’ for the electronic payment of tax. Initially, the eZpay service will be limited to the collection of land taxes and...
Angela Benton. PHOTO/File If there is a founding ethos in the world of high-tech startups, it’s this: The idea is everything. Facebook’s initial public offering might...
Various international retailers – from supermarket giants like Wal-Mart to clothing chains such as Gap – have recently entered the African market, targeting the continent’s growing...
Angela Reed – founder and CEO Bougie Magazine. PHOTO/Bougie Magazine Angela Reed a rising star in the fashion world is the founder, CEO and editor in...
Ethiopian Airlines made its maiden flight to Toronto last week landing at Pearson International Airport. Toronto will be the second destination for the airline in North...
The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) has developed a Business Diaspora Strategy, aimed at tapping into the significant economic potential of the Jamaican Diaspora. Minister of State...
The Olkaria II 70MW geothermal power plant in Kenya. PHOTO/File The Energy Generating Company in Kenya (KenGen) is expected to officially launch the construction of the...
Member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have agreed to set up a Caribbean Investment Fund to help stabilize struggling economies in the region. In a...
The Inye Tablet. PHOTO/CNN Saheed Adepoju of Nigeria has unveiled the Inye this week, a tablet computer designed to be second answer from Africa to the...
Latest job numbers from Barbados indicate that unemployment jumped to nearly 12 percent in the first quarter of 2012, pushing past the 10 percent mark recorded...
Websites ending in dot Africa could soon be popping up across the continent as the drive to bring the ‘African domain ‘into existence gain momentum. The...
Digicel has recently entered into a financing deal that could see it well positioned to expand mobile banking technology through out the Caribbean. In an announcement...
Top African American tech association creates job and networking opportunities during 34th annual technology conference (PRNewswire via COMTEX) – The Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA), the...
Sierra Leone is a country on the rise. Sierra Leone suffered a decade-long brutal war that ended in 2002. The country’s gross domestic product GDP is...
Environmental Damage caused by past oil spill in Nigeria. PHOTO/File The Nigeria regulator says it wants Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s local subsidiary to pay a US$5...
Private equity investment into Africa more than tripled in 2011 to reach US $3 billion, according to the Chief Economist of the African Development Bank (AfDB)....
Wade Lyn – founder and CEO Cleone Foods. PHOTO/Midlands Business News Jamaican entrepreneur Wade Lyn is the founder and CEO of Cleone Foods a company that...
African-American entrepreneur Joseph Durham and a group of private investors are in talks to acquire Voxplus, a Detroit-based Telecom firm that provides telecommunications solutions, alternative voice...
(Reuters) – Jamaica is in advanced talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a new lending agreement and another round of discussions aimed at hammering...
Click a few keys, exchange a few numbers, and it’s done. With just a mobile phone and a registration with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile service giant, you...
Haiti President Michel Martelly at ground breaking ceremony in Caracol. PHOTO/Haiti Libre The government of Haiti agreed Tuesday to allow a local painting manufacturing company become...
Africa World Airlines, a joint Venture between the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, the Strategic African Securities (ASA), both of Ghana, and Hainan Airlines of...
The World Economic and Financial Survey 2012 from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released earlier this week, indicates that global growth has increased to 3.6 percent...
The government of Australia said Tuesday it will pursue membership of the African Development Bank as it seeks to bolster ties with the rapidly emerging continent....
Location of Jaguar-1 well off Guyana Tullow Oil has announced that its drilling operations at the Jaguar-1 well off Guyana have ended. In a statement today...
The US-based international rating agency, Moody Investors Service, has given Barbados a negative rating outlook indicating that the islands fiscal deficits would remain high for the...
Video streaming will be the next big wave of online content use in Africa. There are still considerable network challenges but the level of existing use...
(Jamaica Gleaner) – FLOW is the latest telecommunications provider to announce a reduction in telephone rates resulting from the recent decision by the Office of Utilities...
Despite reservations among lawmakers about business readiness, operational costs and timing, the St. Lucia Senate has passed the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act, keeping the legislation...
Phuti Mahanyele – CEO of Black Economic Empowerment Company Shanduka Group. PHOTO/Fati Moalusi Phuti Mahanyele wants to bring Africa the Big Mac. For two years, Ms....
The Civil Aviation Authority of Trinidad & Tobago (CAA) has instructed national carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to drop its Air Jamaica brand from its aircraft. The...
The South Africa Deputy Minister of International Relations Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim recently visited the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce to talk to potential investors...
The Government of Jamaica has introduced a special telephone tax on all calls originating in Jamaica, effective July 15, 2012. This will include a tax of...
Kenya has decided to issue fewer work permits to foreign workers in an attempt to boost employment for young Kenyans. Kenya has shut the door on...
Haiti mobile operators Digicel Haiti and Voila have topped 5 million transactions under their mobile money services, thus reaching the target set by the Haiti Mobile...
Trade and investment throughout the African Diaspora will create jobs, healthcare, infrastructure and wealth. Booker T. Washington told us more than 100 years ago that if...
(Jamaica Observer) – Telecommunications company Digicel Jamaica said today it was “disappointed” with the ruling by the Supreme Court to refuse the company’s application seeking leave...
An agreement was earlier this week between Range Developments, an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and Kiawah Partners to build and operate, contingent upon final financing,...
The West Africa Monetary Zone (WAMZ) groups together Guinea and the five Anglophone West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria and The Gambia. One...
Tabitha Karanja – founder and CEO., Keroche Breweries. PHOTO/Daily Nation Tabitha Karanja of Kenya, is an entrepreneur who has dared to “tread only where men walk”....
Ryan Knight – founder and CEO The Detailing Knights Ryan Knight is an entrepreneur who turned adversity into triumph. Knight turned the loss of a job...
Barbados and its citizens do not want a devaluation of their currency and Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr DeLisle Worrell has delivered that...
(BUSINESS WIRE) — Comcast Corporation, one of the world’s leading media, entertainment and communications companies, announced today that it has been named to Black Enterprise magazine‘s...
As the US space programme loses momentum with the retirement of the space shuttle, those of Nigeria and Ghana and Nigeria are just taking off. Nigeria...
Wind farm located at the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP)– a 300-megawatt proposal for the northeast part of...
Jamarlin Martin – Chairman & CEO Moguldom Media Group African-American media firm Moguldom is banking on video content to attract big brand dollars. Advertisers including General...
Haiti might be “poorest country in the Americas,” but the tiny nation is also sitting on a gold mine. The new Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe says...
The supreme court in Nigeria has overturned the sale of a state-owned aluminum processing plant to the world’s largest aluminum producer. Justice Afolabiyi Fabiyi ruled Friday...
Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller (r) Welcomes CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. PHOTO/File Amid an escalating trade war between Jamaica and Trinidad &Trinidad — two...
Top companies in Africa ranked primarily by market capitalization. Some of the companies below are listed on stock exchanges in Africa as well as other bourses...
Jamaica together with its closest southern neighbor Colombia, has conducted a marine life survey that will help to prevent damage to the marine ecosystem when drilling...
Rental Cottage at North Palmetto Point in the Bahamas. PHOTO/File With the government of Bahamas recent approval of a 2 percent reduction in the country’s stamp...
Swiftly following on the heels of the news that Prime Minister Freundel Stuart declared that Barbados would be moving to address the current trade imbalance that...
Leading African American tech association announces “Transforming the IT Professional” Conference August 1-4. (PRNewswire via COMTEX) –The Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA), the largest non-profit organization...
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...
Michael Lee-Chin. PHOTO/Zuma Press/Newscom NCB Capital Markets announced plans to acquire over 96 percent of Michael Lee-Chin’s Advantage General Insurance (AGI) but declined to reveal the...
Jamal Randle, from left, Loren Cowling, and Dave Jackson fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit, Sept. 25, 2009. PHOTO/Paul...
Dangote cement’ Obajana plant. PHOTO/File As American and European companies retrench from their efforts to bankroll projects across Africa, a group of investors is quickly emerging...
(Reuters) – Uganda’s sole power distributor Umeme plans to list this year on the Uganda and Nairobi stock exchanges as it looks to raise capital to...
The government of Barbados will float 30 percent of its stakes in the Barbados National Oil Company, the Grantley Adams International Airport, and the Barbados Port...
Have you noticed all the current efforts to promote business opportunities in Africa? Have you wondered how now, all of a sudden, politicians are placing so...
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Fly Jamaica Airways, a new airline set to begin operations in Jamaica in August, has taken the owners and partners close to a...
Mthombo oil refinery, Eastern Cape, South Africa. PHOTO/http://www.sxc.hu (Reuters) – Black ownership of fuel companies operating in South Africa is far below state-mandated targets agreed in...
Multifuncional Floating Dock at the Niger Dock. PHOTO/Navimor International (Marketwire -07/05/12) – Avaya, a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions and services, today announced...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) needs to move faster with implementing the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). This was revealed by Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart,...
Across Africa there are towns experiencing rapid development, largely off the because of newly found resources such as minerals, crude oil and natural gas. While the...
Trinidad and Tobagos Point Fortin LNG terminal. PHOTO/File The energy sector in Trinidad & Tobago contracted in the first quarter of 2012, according to the mid-year...
Freelancer.com, one of the world’s larger outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace has launched in Jamaica with Freelancer.com.jm. This is set to create an optimistic atmosphere among entrepreneurs...
A man pushes a wheelbarrow at a construction site in Soweto. PHOTO/Reuters The construction industry is notorious for its susceptibility to boom-and-bust cycles; when capital is...
Then Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain waves to the crowd before a Republican presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Las Vegas. PHOTO/Isaac Brekken/AP Herman...
Barbados has announced numerous changes to the nation’s tax regime in the 2012-13 Budget. Some of the changes include revisions to the corporate and personal income...
Across the Africa, internet penetration is relatively low, computers are often too expensive to purchase, and online business transactions can be logistically complicated to execute. But...
(Reuters) – African mobile operator MTN asked a U.S. court on Tuesday to dismiss a US$4.2 billion suit brought by rival Turkcell after alleged underhand tactics...
(PRNewswire) — CastleOak Securities, L.P., a leading New York-based investment banking firm, announced today that Black Enterprise magazine has ranked the firm among the top minority-owned...
Shell oil worker on an offshore oil platform in the Niger Delta. PHOTO/AP Heritage Oil PLC says it has agreed to buy a 45 percent stake...
St. Lucia Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony. PHOTO/File St. Lucia Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony has warned that his administration intends to take strong and brave...
Jamaica is planning to expand its health tourism offerings, according to Industry Minister Anthony Hylton. Improving the niche tourism market could help improve health care in...
(PRNewswire) – Solar streetlights are being installed throughout Haiti as part of an innovative program that aims to catalyze the decentralization of government services. The Minister...
Muhammed Jah, founder and CEO QuantumNet Group. PHOTO/BBC The Gambia’s Muhammed Jah clearly remembers the day, in the late 1990s, when a friend told him that...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) has opened applications for a new member dealer, which will grow the cohort of brokerages licensed to trade on the stock...
(Reuters) – The arrival of global advertising agencies has raised the stakes in east Africa’s US$1 billion market, with new players hoping to wrestle a piece...
Bert N. Mitchell Bert N. Mitchell is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus Mitchell & Titus, LLP – the largest minority-owned accounting firm in the United States....
(Reuters) – The economy of Ghana grew 8.7 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012 while a sharp rise in producer prices underlined persistent inflationary...
(Barbados Nation)The government of Barbados could soon be facing legal action from REDjet. Robbie Burns, founder and business development director of REDjet, revealed the airline had...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson. PHOTO/File (PRNewswire via COMTEX) — ASPiRE, the new television network from Magic Johnson Enterprises, debuts today, Wednesday, June 27 at 8:00 pm EST...
The launch of the BRICS development bank in South Africa would provide Africa, the Caribbean and other emerging countries an alternative to the Western dominated Bretton...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel Jamaica has commissioned its new 4G mobile service and is marketing the service to subscribers as the ‘Surf, Stream and Share’ plan. Digicel...
(PRNewswire) – The Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce (MBCC), the governing body for all black chamber of commerce organizations within the state of Michigan, has launched...
China’s investment in Africa represents a small but rapidly growing piece of total Chinese outward foreign direct investment worldwide. Africa is the third largest recipient of...
Haiti is targeting up to US$600 million in foreign investment in the 2012/2013 financial year, and according to its trade ambassador, The Bahamas has a tremendous...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File The president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has requested and accepted the resignations of the executives of the oil-rich West African nation’s...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are working on easing the convertibility of their individual currencies even though regional leaders have decided that certain aspects of the single...
Raindolf Owusu – founder and CEO Oasis Websoft. PHOTO/File Raindolf Owusu has designed, built and launched a computer operating system relevant to Africa. The operating system...
Barbados has not forgotten the potential of the African market for tourism, according to Tourism Minister Richard Sealy. Sealy, who was speaking recently at the launch...
The Antigua & Barbuda government has ended the 25-year monopoly enjoyed by the Landline Internet Mobile and Entertainment (LIME) telecommunications company on international direct dial telephone...
App developers at work in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File East Africa’s growing opportunities in the technology sector have proved too good to ignore for some entrepreneurs from...
Jimmy Smith – CEO And Chief Creative Officer Amusement Park Entertainment. PHOTO/File Jimmy Smith is the co-founder, Chairman, CEO and CCO of Amusement Park Entertainment, a...
The Jamaica has plans to launch a mobile payments service to promote financial inclusion among the under-banked population of the country, local media reports. Anthony Hylton,...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in preparing for the Connect the Americas Summit, set for Panama in July, is sending a strong and clear message to private...
On Monday, BET Networks, Black Enterprise, Johnson Publishing (the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines), the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters and others will join...
Ory Okolloh, activist, lawyer, blogger, and co-founder of Ushahidi.com. PHOTO/File One of the many terms Silicon Valley has bequeathed to the business world is “serial entrepreneur”,...
This year’s 16th Annual American Black Film Festival not only recognized the emerging film artists of our time but also has stepped out of the normalcy...
Trinidad & Tobago is moving to stave off a trade dispute with Barbados. Trinidad & Tobago has apologized for the actions of its food safety agency...
India has overtaken the United States to become Nigeria’s largest market for exports, according to the first quarter Trade Statistics released by the Nigeria National Bureau...
Donnel Baird. PHOTO/BlocPower By fall, an organization known as BlocPower will be helping minority churches, nonprofits and small businesses nationwide reduce their energy bills with retrofit...
The Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation Inc., (BEF) has recorded significant progress in the collaboration to ensure that Barbados is the ‘number 1 Entrepreneurial Hub in the World...
Kenya has suspended the recruitment of its citizens to work in the Middle East following rampant cases of abuse. The Foreign Affairs ministry of Kenya, said...
There are now several online and mobile music TV platforms that have started in Africa. Some like Iroko Partners started with Nollywood film and went into...
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Telecommunications firm Digicel has accused Jamaica’s regulator – the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) of being “unconstitutional” and setting itself up as “judge,...
The global downturn could put the brakes on Namibia’s economy, but analysts remain optimistic on the country’s ability to shrug off external shocks given increased consumer...
(PRWEB) – NBTV1.com is National Black Television: “TV that Cares!”. The Internet television network helps African-American young people and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) strive...
We profile some of the most successful African American companies to watch in 2012. Company: Cannon Industries Rank: Number 83 on the BlackEnterprise100s Industrial/Service list Jack...
Jamaica is now the the latest jurisdiction to raise the possibility of concluding a bilateral agreement with the United States to implement the Foreign Account Tax...
South Africa’s US$ 2 billion commitment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) emergency resources fund a sign of the country’s ability to assist in efforts to...
Tanzania has nearly tripled its estimate of recoverable natural gas reserves to up to 28.74 trillion cubic feet from 10 trillion and plans to introduce new...
Christopher Che, CEO and founder of Che International Group Christoper Che, the CEO and founder of Che International Group, LLC., is a man who has turned...
A new report by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has assessed The Bahamas platform as holding up to 4.3 billion barrels. The study, entitled “Assessment...
(Reuters) – Shares in Telkom SA Ltd., surged nearly 8 percent in early trade on Tuesday after a report said its top shareholder, the South African...
After the airing of CNN’s “Black in America: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley,” a new dream was realized for many hopeful black entrepreneurs. Each...
Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/Reuters Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, will on Tuesday return back to the office of the President of the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE),...
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) “will spare no effort” to ensure that the way it does business will not put it in line for any more...
James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank, Kenya. PHOTO/File James Mwangi, the CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank Limited was today named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of...
The Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe says his country is making headway two-and-a-half years after an earthquake claimed the lives of 300,000 people and left...
Regional banking institutions have expressed concern over the likely consequences for banking in the region over US legislation that could lead to capital flight, loss of...