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Despite a small dip in US vehicle sales, General Motors' first-quarter net income rose more than 25 per cent on strong deliveries of pickup trucks and other higher-profit vehicles.

GOVERNMENT LAWMAKERS paid tribute to former clerk to the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis in her absence on Tuesday, but the parliamentary Opposition reserved their accolades for a future event when they can commend the former administrator of the legislature face to face.

Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves has written to the World Bank opposing a move to increase its interest rate and shorten loan repayment periods to countries.

Former Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament Dwayne Vaz is facing charges for breaching Section 43(1)(b) of the Integrity Commission Act (ICA).

MINISTER OF Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia 'Babsy' Grange announced an increase in the prize money for winning schools at this year's staging of the INSPORTS/Devon Biscuit Regional and National Primary Schools Athletics Championships.

"Today we celebrate and properly recognise someone who embodies excellence," was the proxy declaration of Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange on Sunday. She was referring to Mervyn Morris, a man whose exemplary activities have kept him in the public eye for well over half a century.

Spending too many nights trying to fall asleep – or worrying there aren't enough ZZZs in your day? You're not alone.

Nearly half of Jamaicans are of the view that things are going in the wrong direction, citing unemployment among youth as a major indicator.

PepsiCo reported better-than-expected revenue in the first quarter on strong international demand for its snacks and beverages.

The world's largest 3D printer has created a house that can cut construction time and labour. An even larger printer unveiled on Tuesday may one day create entire neighbourhoods.

Bondholders in Specialty Coffee Investments Company Limited, an outfit connected to businessman and investor Michael Lee-Chin, voted to extend the maturity of a bond by three months, but more negotiations could follow. The initial extension is days...

Since the term "war for talent" was coined by McKinsey's Steven Hankin in 1997, talent management, or TM, has become an important strategic focus of many companies.

ON SATURDAY, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, the showgrounds of the Jamaica Horticultural Society, located at the corner of Gibson Drive and Gibson Close in Hope Pastures, St Andrew, will be as busy as a bee searching for nectar at this calendar event.

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He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What...

Mexican fundraisers can now solicit donations on GoFundMe, the company announced Tuesday, as the crowdfunding giant expands into what it hopes is the first of more untapped Latin American markets to follow.

FORMER MUSCHETT High School and G.C. Foster College athlete, Kadrian Goldson, is on cloud nine after recently earning the Prime Minister's Youth Award.

ONE THOUSAND five hundred volunteers are expected to participate in the Great Mangrove Cleanup slated for Saturday, along Kingston Harbour.

TIVOLI GARDENS forward and the Wray & Nephew-sponsored Jamaica Premier League (JPL) leading goalscorer, Justin Dunn, said he was not satisfied with his performance in the first leg of the competition's quarterfinals play-off against Waterhouse FC on Monday.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the developing world has faced growing public-sector debt vulnerabilities. Interest-rate hikes and limited access to international capital markets have only exacerbated the problem – so much so that even solvent countries are now grappling with liquidity challenges.

The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) will, on April 30, present International Jazz Day Jamaica, a concert celebrating the day and marking Jamaica's contribution.

Officials in Baltimore plan to open a deeper channel for commercial ships to access the city's port starting on Thursday, marking a significant step toward reopening the major maritime shipping hub that has remained closed to most traffic since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last month.

The International Monetary Fund says Latin America and the Caribbean, LAC, has showed "quite a bit of resilience" and that the rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic has been stronger than previously expected.

The United States Federal Trade Commission, FTC, sued to block Tapestry Inc's US$8.5 billion acquisition of Capri Holdings Ltd, saying that the deal would eliminate direct head-to-head competition between the fashion companies' brands like Coach and Michael Kors in the so-called affordable luxury handbag arena.

Mayberry Jamaican Equities Limited, MJE, plans to raise up to $3.3 billion in a bond offer that closes next month.

Simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington remain the top worry for American companies operating in China, according to a report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China released Tuesday.

Several senior lawyers have endorsed the selection of prosecutor Claudette Thompson as acting director of public prosecutions (DPP) even as some are calling for clarity on her appointment and on the status of the incumbent, Paula Llewellyn.

EXCELSIOR HIGH tightened their grip on local schoolgirls' football as they drubbed Holmwood Technical 9-1 in the final of the ISSA/TIP Friendly Society Schoolgirls competition at the Stadium East field yesterday. The victory gave Excelsior an eighth straight schoolgirls' football title.

AFTER OUTSTANDING performances this season, Jamaica College's (JC) duo of Shaiquan Dunn and Chavez Penn will be hoping to continue their winning ways when they compete this weekend in field events at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.

JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Derrick Smith says the changes coming out of Sunday's Central Executive meeting are not enough, asserting that restructuring is also needed among the party's deputy leaders. Smith...