Makeover for furniture makers: Bureau of Standards to operate incubator, design centre
Eyeing the market for imported furnishings, which has been valued at US$74 million (J$6.6 billion), the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) on Wednesday unveiled its Furniture and Wooden Products...

Alliance loans keep businesses afloat
Pauline Clarke and her husband Junior, operators of a welding business in Kingston, had a contract to fill but no funds to acquire the raw material to do the job.

Budgeting for the holidays
The money you have to spend for the upcoming holiday season might be somewhat reduced, but this does not mean times spent with family during the holiday has to be any less merry.

IBM reports breakthrough in computer that 'thinks'
Scientists say they have made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain - an effort that tests the limits of technology.

... Plugs courier loophole for illicit exports
The Coffee Industry Board (CIB) has stepped up its policing of illicit or unapproved coffee exports, and has issued to all post offices and couriers a list of dealers who are licensed to trade the product overseas.

The Coffee industry Board (CIB) targets China for new coffee markets
The Coffee industry Board (CIB) is looking to access markets in China for Jamaican Blue Mountain and High Mountain coffee in 2010 and beyond, as sales elsewhere in Asia decline.

One day all this will be gardening - Caribbean food vs LatAm producers
Nearly two decades ago, a former Caribbean minister with an unconventional background would try to shock those that he met into recognising that agriculture in the region was dying and that it was the services sector that represented the future.