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...
An American investor has received approval from the Bahamas Ministry of Health to develop a cutting-edge clinic on Grand Bahama specializing in stem cell therapy. Okyanos...
The Meltwater Entreprenerial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana was founded in February 2008. MEST, started out with modest aims: to take the brightest and most...
Deryl McKissack, president and CEO of McKissack and McKissack. PHOTO/Cliff Owen/AP Deryl McKissack is the owner and chief executive officer of the D.C.-based McKissack & McKissack,...
Kenya Airways, Africa’s third-biggest airline is looking to implement cost-cutting measures affecting staff, procurement, and fuel use. This comes after a sharp rise in its fuel...
Haiti’s economy is moving in a positive direction, though at a level below that projected by the International Monetary Fund’s Extended Credit Facility arrangement, the IMF...
(Reuters) – Norwegian oil company Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery in the Statoil-operated Block 2 license in Tanzania, the company said...
Standard & Poor’s credit agency here has downgraded the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) from (AAA) Triple A, the firm’s highest rating, stating that its risk management...
Aliko Dangote (Reuters) – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is targeting a market capitalization of US$35-40 billion for his cement company when he lists it in London...
Fastjet: Stelios Haji-Ioannou investing in low-cost African airline An African low-cost airline, which is the brainchild of easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has moved closer to...
“If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.” That’s the tagline of Shimba Technologies, a Nairobi (Kenya)-based mobile app developer. And it could lead to...
(Barbados Nation) – The last airplane belonging to REDjet left Barbados yesterday afternoon, hours after the court gave the company the all-clear to fly its aircraft...
Aliko Dangote Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote commissioned an expansion of his Obajana cement plant on Monday that raised its capacity to 10.25 million tonnes a year,...
Barbados and some of her Caribbean neighbors have been saddled with huge debt, a debt that is sapping government revenues and retarding economic and social expansion....
Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks creators of Black Girls Run. PHOTO/black girls run Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks are on a mission to encourage African American...
Kenya continues to invest in modern infrastructure. PHOTO/File Kenya could reach middle income status in the next four years if its current growth rates are sustained,...
A huge fire swept through a hangar of the regional carrier Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) which is based at Antigua’s international airport, late on Sunday...
Getting money in Haiti can be a harrowing experience: Bank branches are few, most of them are in the capital and a simple transaction can take...
There is a mismatch happening in the African markets. Users have demonstrated that they want streaming video services and they want them now. However, the majority...
Barbados-based grounded low-fare carrier REDjet may never fly again. According to sources, the airline has informed the 94 staffers by letter yesterday that it could no...
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has revealed that serious consideration is being given to repositioning Tobago as an economic free zone. Persad-Bissessar made this...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will talk about the nation’s economic woes in remarks at the White House Friday. The White House says President...
(PRNewswire via COMTEX) – 100 Black Men of America, Inc., a leader in mentoring and educating youth, announces the lineup of amazing speakers and participants for...
The new government of the Bahamas is making its financial services industry a priority. This was revealed by the new Financial Services Minister Ryan Pinder. Pinder...
Tanzania is going to be the first country in Africa to deploy 4G network following a successful pilot test of the network by Alcatel-Lucent and Smile...
Foreign firms are establishing a strong presence in the burgeoning East Africa’s business process outsourcing sector as countries embrace innovative solutions to boost public and private...
Regional insurance group Sagicor Financial has decided to exit from two lines of business which produced underwriting losses of up to $BBD67 million (US$33.5 million) in...
Vodacom Group of South Africa has expressed interest in investing in telecommunications in Sierra Leone. This was revealed by Mohamed Bangura, Sierra Leone’s director-general of the...
Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer said yesterday that his country will not participate in REDjet’s bid to return to the skies. REDjet, which suspended...
Ethiopia has denied accreditation to what would have been the country’s first Islamic banking service, citing new banking and terrorism laws. Zam-Zam Bank applied for a...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaica Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, on Tuesday, announced a raft of measures designed to make more Jamaicans homeowners, ranging from...
(Barbados Nation) – After cutting about 10 percent of its staff in Jamaica through a voluntary separation package in 2009, Digicel is expanding its offer to...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s elite Hawks police unit has opened an investigation into allegations of corruption at mobile phone giant MTN relating to its purchase of...
The new chair of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has called on the institution to implement measures to reverse the ratings downgraded issued by Moody’s Investors...
D. Michelle Flowers Welch – founder and CEO Flowers Communications Group D. Michelle Flowers Welch is the founder and CEO of the Flowers Communications Group (The...
(Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Supreme Court has suspended a planned mandatory auction of shares in the local unit of South African mobile...
(Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — Leadcom announced it has won two contracts for cellular networks upgrade and expansion in the Caribbean Islands – Antigua & Barbuda...
Ed Dandridge., President and CEO of the National Association of Investment Companies Access to capital is one of the biggest barriers facing start-ups. This is where...
There is very little difference between a resident of Jamaica and a non-resident purchasing or investing in stock in Jamaica. The same rules and processes apply...
Randall Pinkett African American entrepreneurs must be willing to forge partnerships and joint ventures in order to thrive in today’s business marketplace, said Randal Pinkett, who...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Aircraft maintenance in Jamaica has been dealt a severe blow as Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) carried out another round of lay-offs, sending home 90...
The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has reported that real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by an estimated of 0.6 percent for the March quarter, notwithstanding...
Russell Simmons always finds a way to stay relevant in the hip-hop, music and fashion communities. His latest venture into fashion isn’t new at all, but...
South Africa’s fixed line operator Telkom on Friday announced that plans for a partnership with South Korea’s telecom operator KT will not go ahead after Pretoria...
R. Donahue Peebles at a speaking engagement. PHOTO/flikr Roy Donahue “Don” Peebles is founder, chairman and CEO of the Peebles Corporation, a real estate development company...
In Zambia, bicycles are grown from the ground. Making the most of the southern African country’s bamboo plants, two Zambians and two Americans have set up...
Kenya Airways has detailed plans for a major expansion of its operations, which calls for launching services to North and South America, plus Australia, by 2017....
Cable & Wireless Jamaica (LIME) saw its revenues decline by 2 percent to JMD 20.43 billion (US$ 233 million) in the year ended 31 March 2012....
Despite an austerity budget and the initial stabs at tax reforms, Jamaica is unlikely to conclude an economic support agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
Clifford Franklin President and CEO of FUSE Advertising FUSE advertising, was founded in 1997 as an affiliate company of Final Phase Marketing, which in turn was...
(Reuters) -The Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala revised down the country’s growth forecasts to 6-7 percent on Wednesday, from 7-8 percent previously. “We can do...
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis., Denzil Douglas The Citizenship by Investment Unit in St Kitts and Nevis receives approximately 300 applications per year and...
(Reuters)- African mobile operator MTN said on Tuesday it is working with U.S. authorities to manage compliance with sanctions against Iran, one of its biggest markets....
The company hired by the Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) to plan and execute an exploratory well in Bahamian waters says it believes it will be drilling...
The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago has revised its projections and is now reporting that the country had entered a technical recession at the end...
Harold Mills – owner and CEO of ZeroChaos. PHOTO/Orlando Business Journal Harold Mills is the president and owner of ZeroChaos, one the largest African-American owned companies...
Over 200 new jobs to be created for the people of Barbados and BBD$65 million (US$35.5 million) injected into the economy. (PR Newswire) – Karib Cable...
The book “Our Black Year” examines one dimension of a crisis facing economically depressed communities across the nation. As capital dries up and skilled people flee...
The Haiti government has launched a program that uses mobile phones to transfer cash credits to mothers who keep their children in school. The program is...
More than 200 of Africa’s top policy makers, developers, entrepreneurs and private enterprises are due to meet in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi next week to...
The finance minister of Jamaica, Dr Peter Phillips yesterday dismissed calls for a stimulus budget saying it was enticing, but unrealistic. Making the opening presentation during...
With the uncertainty over supply of oil from Iran, South Africa is partnering with Nigeria for the purchase of its oil, the Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...
Mark Zuckerberg has followed in the footsteps of Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs, to marry computers, technology, and entrepreneurship in hothouse environs of Silicon...
The new government (the Perry Christie administration) in the Bahamas is planning to modernize the tax code to generate new revenue. The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP)...
Economists say Africa will grow by 5.5 percent in 2012, with seven African countries expected to rank among the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world during...
Black Enterprise (BE) will mark 40 years of listing America’s largest black companies on Friday, May 25, 2012 as the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo...
The US based rating agency, Moody Investors Services (Moody’s) has downgraded the credit ratings of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) by one notch from AAA...
Africa plans to launch a fund to harness the financial resources of its citizens based in the Diaspora which will be used for development projects on...
Angela Samuels – founder and CEO Voluptuous Clothing Angela Samuels is the Founder and CEO of the Toronto based retail chain Voluptuous Clothing, a store that...
Member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), recorded mixed economic growth last year as they continued to grapple with the fallout from the global economic and...
(Reuters) – Ecobank Kenya has received a US$25 million capital injection from its parent company to help it expand and address the rising cost of financing...
(Dow Jones Newswires) – National Commercial Bank of Jamaica has filed plans to offer up to US$225 million in American depositary shares (ADS) as the Jamaican...
The 3 female captains from left: Captain Frances Smith, Captain Gwendolyn Ritchie and Captain Gail Saunders. PHOTO/BIS/Letisha Henderson Bahamas national air carrier Bahamasair has introduced the...
First African brand enters ranking. MTN has been ranked Africa’s most valuable brand in the authoritative BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 survey, released...
Paul Butler., General Manager of ASPiRE With its official launch scheduled for next month, new cable network ASPiRE appears poised to address a much maligned but...
Miners at work in Zimbabwe. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Around 60 miners trapped underground on Tuesday after an accident and fire at Zimbabwe’s Mimosa platinum mine have...
The agreement that allowed Digicel to increase its stronghold in Jamaica could be undermined if the Jamaica Fair Trading Commission (FTC) determines that the transaction could...
(Reuters) – Syngenta, the world’s largest agrochemicals company, said on Friday it is planning to invest some US$500 million in Africa to help sow the seeds...
The huge losses suffered by investors in the recent St Kitts and Nevis debt exchange signals a need for government debt issues in the Caribbean to...
Janice Bryant Howroyd – first black woman to build a billion-dollar company. Oprah Winfrey may be the first Black woman self-made billionaire, but Janice Bryant Howroyd,...
Africa’s rapid economic growth has helped change the stereotype of a hopeless continent of starving people waiting to be rescued, but it has also created an...
Trinidad and Tobago’s Point Fortin LNG terminal. PHOTO/File Trinidad &Tobago energy minister Kevin Ramnarine revealed yesterday that Trinidad &Tobago has given Jamaica a commitment that Trinidad...
The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) was ranked the top South African and African business school in the annual UK Financial Times...
Catherine L. Hughes founder and Chairperson Radio One, Inc. Catherine L. Hughes co-founded Radio One, Inc. (which owns TV One and Interactive One, parent company of...
Haiti Prime Minister.,Laurent Lamothe The government of Haiti is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the...
Members of the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce are in Fiji hoping to increase trading opportunities between Fiji and the US. This is the...
(Reuters) – Planned investment in Uganda more than tripled in the first quarter of this year from the preceding three months, buoyed by increasing interest in...
Ghana is exploring a nuclear energy programme in its power mix strategy, as it strives to become a major net exporter of energy in the West...
According to a 2011 Nielsen consumers report, the U.S. Black population’s collective buying power is projected to be US$1.1 trillion by 2015. Many community members, hearing...
(PRNewswire)- Earvin “Magic” Johnson announced today that Paul Butler (pictured), has been named general manager of ASPiRE, the new African-American network set to launch in June....
New Minister of State of Finance of the Bahamas., Michael Halkitis The incoming minister of state of finance, Michael Halkitis has revealed that the people of...
As a continent, Africa is of course diverse, with individual countries performing economically with different levels of success. There are however significant business opportunities across the...
Enhancing a strong presence in local, regional and national markets, Hammerman & Gainer International, Inc. (HGI)—the largest African American owned third party administration company in the...
(Trinidad Express) – Energy giants BP and BG Trinidad and Tobago yesterday signed three production sharing contracts (PSCs) for oil and gas exploration as a culmination...
Regulators in Nigeria have fined four mobile phone carriers a total of US$7.3 million over poor service in a nation that depends on cellular phones for...
Africa is full of opportunities, and with a need to create something truly African, a number of mobile app developers have taken up the challenge. Here...
(Barbados Nation) While Barbados businesses gripe about how bad the economy is performing, Trinidadians are investing heavily in the country and positioning themselves for an economic...
African independent producers have three major challenges: getting known globally, finding the right distribution network and getting some money back. Buni TV, an innovative web platform...
As part of its strategic growth initiative, the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is seeking to court overseas-based companies, including those owned and operated by Jamaicans in...
(Reuters) –Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a Lagos-based development financier, is considering potential investments worth US$3 billion across sub-Saharan Africa over the next year, its chief executive...
Haiti President Michel Martelly has inaugurated the new office of the country’s National Old Age Insurance office, the country’s national pension fund, in Petionville. “This is...
Alcatel-Lucent has signed two contracts to roll out 4G, long term evolution (LTE) in East Africa as the race among African mobile phone operators to capture...
Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti’s land may hold the key to...
Edwin Broni-Mensah Edwin Broni-Mensah had a simple idea, but intends to turn that idea into a global “water revolution”. Some years ago, an idea to create...
BLACK ENTERPRISE, the nation’s premier business resource for African Americans will bring its Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo hosted by Nationwide Insurance to Columbus in spring 2013....
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has honored five African innovators in its roll of Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2012. Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman...
Founder and CEO of the Dangote Group., Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said his conglomerate needed to spend US$7.5 billion over the...
(Reuters) – Swiss-based oil firm Nimex Petroleum has been suspended by Nigeria’s fuel regulator for failing to provide documents for shipments, the company said on Wednesday,...
Trinidadian company Prestige Holdings Limited, which has already invested more than US$50 million in Barbados over the past five years through Courtyard by Marriott, TGI Friday’s,...
(PRWEB) – The Black Owned Business Directory has launched a new website designed to help consumers promote and support black-owned businesses. According to the US Census,...
The green roof garden at the East African Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/AlertNet/Gitonga Njeru By Gitonga Njeru Architects in Kenya are designing buildings with...
Mark Kaigwa speaking at the re:publica gathering in Berlin. PHOTO/File “Africa is writing history for all the right reasons now. The amount of innovation going on...
First Citizens has signed an agreement to acquire Butterfield Bank Barbados Limited, a subsidiary of Bank of NT Butterfield and Son Limited. The acquisition, pending regulatory...
Albert R. Grace co-founder and President Loop Capital Markets, LLC Albert R. Grace Jr co-founded Loop Capital Markets in 1997 with with James Reynolds, Jr. The...
Technology Parks across the world have been recognized as important mechanisms for innovation and stimulating technology transfer. They also help with the formation and growth of...
(Reuters) – “There’s more to life than gross domestic product (GDP),” is a favorite refrain of left-leaning social commentators and environmental activists. But when it comes...
Mike McGee (l) and Neal Sales-Griffin (r). PHOTO/code academy Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin, two young African American entrepreneurs decided to launch a tech start-up. Both...
Oprah Winfrey speaks during the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network portion of the 2011 Winter TCA press tour held at the Langham Hotel on January 6, 2011...
Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Group (Bloomberg) – Tiger Brands Ltd. (TBS), South Africa’s largest food company, said it is in talks with Dangote Industries Ltd.,...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says his administration has not turned its back on the cash-strapped low budget carrier, REDjet, that halted its services to regional...
Ugandan information technology firm SatNav East Africa has sold a 26 percent stake to South Africa’s MapIT. SatNav East Africa chief executive Vincent Okema said the...
A global turnkey solar energy provider, ESA Renewables, has secured a contract to begin building a 24-megawatt solar power park in Western Jamaica this year, the...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions, Sept. 25, 2009. PHOTO/Paul Aancya/AP Black unemployment dropped a full point to 13 percent, one of the most positive...
Africa received its largest ever share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, an Ernst and Young survey has said. FDI projects grew by 27...
Byron Lewis Sr., founder and outgoing-CEO UniWorld Group, Inc. (PRNewswire via COMTEX) – UniWorld Group, Inc. (UWG), the longest-standing full-service multicultural advertising and communications agency in...
Ghana officially opened its Space Science and Technology Center (SSTC) Wednesday in a bid to harness the potentials of science and technology for accelerated socio- economic...
Njeri Rionge. PHOTO/twitter In east African business circles, few entrepreneurs shine brighter than Njeri Rionge. One of Kenya’s most successful and revered serial entrepreneurs, Rionge has...
The South African province of Gauteng sees Georgia as a place to begin erasing the negative stereotypes that can keep Americans from investing in their country....
Jeri Lynne Johnson leads the Chicago Sinfonietta’s Martin Luther King tribute concert January 15. PHOTO/File Jeri Lynne Johnson, founder of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in...
Chevron has concluded the sale of its fuels marketing and aviation business in The Bahamas, Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos to a French multinational energy...
The parliament of Jamaica yesterday sanctioned amendments to the 11-year-old Telecoms Act, signalling the end to any possibility of monopoly in the telecoms market and paving...
(Reuters) – Citizens of Kenya residing abroad sent home US$106.2 million in March, the highest monthly amount since the central bank started releasing data on the...
It is 10 years since the end of the civil war in Angola. The country has made enormous strides in rebuilding its economy, which is expected...
Outgoing LIAT CEO., Brian Challenger. PHOTO/File The Board of Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) has announced the resignation of acting Chief Executive Officer Brian Challenger effective...
Windfarm in the Ngong Hills, near Nairobi – Kenya Governments and business are scrambling to find ways of making renewable energy, such as solar energy (photovoltaic...
Kevin W. Williams – President and Managing Director, GM of Canada. PHOTO/Aaron Lynett/National Post Kevin W. Williams was appointed President and Managing Director of GM Canada...
(Reuters)- China’s Gingko Energy Company plans to invest US$100 million over a five-year period to revive production at Kilembe copper mine in western Uganda, the east...
Conflict is brewing between Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada over the spoils of exploration for two of the country’s deep water blocks which were up for...
Jamaica Prime Minister.,Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller met this weekend with more than 200 members of the business community in Philadelphia at a...
Robert L. Johnson, the renowned businessman and investor, said it best. He was speaking of the importance of the West African country of Liberia to the...
Best Western Hotel Construction in Haiti. PHOTO/File Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, as the concrete Royal Oasis hotel...
Electronic toll gate structure on Gauteng highway. PHOTO/Yuri Madonsela (Africa Review) – South African authorities have bowed to public pressure and postponed the April 30 launch...
Cayman Premier., McKeeva Bush Police probes into Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush over two alleged cases of financial irregularities and his involvement with an illegal shipment of...
The World Bank investing arm, the International Financing Corporation (IFC), will own 7.4 percent of Kenya Airways after conclusion of a rights issue through which it...
Here is a brief of the top 10 black entrepreneurs in the United States for the year 2011: Jean Orelien: CEO and founder SciMetrika SciMetrika 2010...
Barbados narrowly edged-out Puerto Rico for the highest position among Caribbean countries in the 2012 Global Information Technology Report (GITP). Placing 35th out of 142 in...
Former JPMorgan traders Patrice Backer, left, and Papa Ndiaye head a private-equity firm in Dakar, Senegal. PHOTO/Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters For decades, many African countries saw some of...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s United Bank for Africa (UBA) is considering merging its Zambian unit with one or more other local lenders to meet a new regulatory...
Majora Carter Majora Carter, is founder and president of the Majora Carter Group, a private, for-profit “green” economic consulting firm. In 2001, after successfully shifting the...
LIME, Cable & Wireless Communications’ Caribbean unit, has begun offering a broadband-based IPTV service in Barbados. Subscribers will be able to access up to 130 video...
Brian Pengelley, the president of the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association (JMA), is warning that walking away from membership in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would not solve the...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A growing middle class has fueled Africa’s fast-growing consumer market driving the regional economy, according to...
St. Kitts and Nevis’ Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Sen. the Hon. Richard Skerritt, wants Caribbean governments to reach out to grounded low-cost airline REDjet...
They are the African business leaders, empire builders, moguls and high-flying chief executives of multinational corporations who possess continental clout and wield the most widespread influence...
A two-day Haiti investment conference opens in Miami Beach on Monday where the focus is on getting Haitians living in South Florida and elsewhere to invest...
African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – The head of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Sunday he is willing to provide US$45...
(Reuters) – Bahamas Petroleum Company sought to reassure investors on Monday that its drilling permits would be renewed, after local media reports last week raised fears...
British Airways has admitted to withholding a statutory payment to Nigeria, marking a turning point in the face-off between the government of Nigeria and the foreign...
Health tourism has the capacity to generate US$ 35 billion per year and it appears to be a viable income generating option, which, if pursued, could...
Michael Roberts and Steven Roberts. PHOTO/Mark Gilliano The shiny new tower rises high above Old Post Office Plaza. Twenty-five stories of glass and steel, designed for...
The tourist brochure shows pictures of lovely white sandy beaches, tall coconut trees and rolling mountains. Welcome to the Caribbean. But the picture has been changing...
Tony Elumelu Nigerian banker and philanthropist Tony Elumelu was recently in Washington D.C., where he reiterated his belief that Africans themselves will be at the forefront...
Botswana’s big idea for diversification of the largely mineral-dependent economy is the establishment of a world-class financial services hub in the capital city, Gaborone, to develop...
Nest eggs are supposed to be there for when you retire. But it seems that many African Americans are dipping into their retirement savings prematurely. According...
Guest workers travelling to Bermuda will now be able to clear customs faster with the launch of the new Fast Pass Card. The card which will...
App developers at work in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File There aren’t too many apps out there that are designed specifically for the African market. But who better...
The ongoing discussions between representatives of Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT), the unions and the Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Labor has proved a saving grace...
Debra Lee – CEO BET BET has been the only real juggernaut in African-American TV programming in more than 30 years, but the network is about...
Caribbean economies are expected to grow in 2012 and 2013, according to the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF). It says the Caribbean is “on a glide...
(Reuters) – Nakumatt, Kenya’s largest retailer, plans to expand across Africa by focusing on opening stores in more eastern Africa countries over the next two years,...
St Kitts and Nevis Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Richard Skerritt, wants regional governments to meet with officials of the grounded REDjet and has...
Abdirashid Duale CEO of Dahabshiil. PHOTO/File The story behind international money transfer Dahabshiil truly is one of rags to riches. The company, now one of the...
Robert Johnson. PHOTO/File Robert Johnson, the first African American billionaire, has invested in professional basketball teams, real estate, mortgage-backed securities and midsize hotels. Now he is...
(Reuters)- High commodity prices will buoy much of sub-Saharan Africa in 2012, but South Africa will continue to stumble due to its deep ties to crisis-ridden...
(Jamaica Observer) Thousands of Jamaicans will have their personal financial information released to American authorities if local banks sign on to a new tax compliance agreement...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Yuri Gripas/Reuters The Nigerian challenger to head the World Bank congratulated Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim on his appointment to the post on Monday,...
U.S. President Barack Obama – and rising gasoline prices Under pressure to take action on rising gasoline prices, President Barack Obama wants Congress to strengthen federal...
The Trinidad and Tobago economy is making a turnaround following the global economic recession. According to a March 25, 2012 report from the International Monetary Fund...
Teri Williams. PHOTO/Dominick Reuter Teri Williams is one of the nation’s most-respected women in business. At 54, she is a graduate of Brown University, has an...
French energy group Total has shut down a gas plant in southern Nigeria because of a techical fault during a drilling operation at an oil facility,...
REDjet – Grounded – (Barbados Nation) REDjet officials have approached Guyana for financial assistance and are reportedly also in discussion with foreign investors in an effort...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The construction industry and state and local governments are among the biggest drags on the nation’s economic recovery, President Obama said...
Mobile operator Digicel Jamaica says that about 120 of its local staff or 10 percent of its workforce could to take-up its ‘voluntary separation programme’ announced...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed the 2012 budget into law on Friday, keeping all the key figures the same...
Nuclear Energy cooling towers Soweto South Africa. PHOTO/File Kenya is gearing up for a revision of its energy policy to establish a regulatory system for overseeing...
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, (l), and Haiti’s President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/AP Looking to boost ties between Haiti and Mexico, Presidents Michel Martelly and Felipe Calderon held...
REDjet – grounded. PHOTO/File REDjet employees have been informed that they will get some of their outstanding wages next week. Passengers affected by the suspension of...
Jamal Randle, from left, Loren Cowling, and Dave Jackson fill out applications for jobs Sept. 25, 2009. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP Photo The benefits of the economic recovery...
Africa’s small scale farmers place all their hopes of harvest on rain. With the recent changes in weather patterns many of them have experienced low or...
Travellers still reeling from the shock grounding of budget Caribbean carrier REDJet are now facing the prospect that all major inter-regional travel could come to a...
Shanelle Spivey Shanelle Spivey, 28, is the owner and executive producer of Spirut Andrews Productions LLC, a multi-faceted video production company that specializes in television production,...
Shell’s 100-mile-long oil slick off the Nigerian coast, 21 December 2011. PHOTO/by SkyTruth from data courtesy of the European Space Agency (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell...
REDjet grounded. PHOTO/File (Barbados Nation) – Grounded low-fare carrier REDjet is getting moral support for its recovery from an unexpected source – British airline Virgin Atlantic....
Jamaican and Trinidadian entrepreneurs are potential investors in an airline carrier aimed at tapping into the South American market. Brazil ambassador to Jamaica, Antonio F Da...
Arthur Wylie – founder and CEO of Arthur Wylie Enterprises. PHOTO/File Arthur Wylie, the founder and CEO of Arthur Wylie Enterprises made his first million by...
Nigeria oil and gas refinery at Amenam in the Niger delta. PHOTO/File The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the country cannot boost its oil output...
BF&M Limited has once again set its sights on Caribbean expansion with the acquisition of Cayman-based Island Heritage Insurance Company Ltd, which has insurance operations in...
Is there a black trail blazer that has what it takes to pick up where Steve Jobs left off? Who is innovative enough to step up...
Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) will be outsourcing its Cargo and Quikpak operations at some stations across the Caribbean. Director of Cargo and Quikpak Wilbur Edwards...