Big burdens for small businesses - Management pitfalls to avoid
Many businesses crashed and burned in 2008 because managers failed to diversify their operations and reinvent companies' images, Edward Chin-Mook, president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ), told The Gleaner Tuesday.

Why Jamaicans throw away money
New Year's resolutions are formulated fast and dissipate even faster, but there's one purchasing touchstone that could transform consumerism in 2009. Shoppers could save lots of money locally and overseas if they did their homework and researched markdown opportunities on otherwise high prices...

Jamaican gets eight years for US mortgage-fraud scheme
Citing the steep cost of mortgage fraud on South Florida, a Fort Lauderdale federal judge sentenced a Jamaican man to eight years in prison this week for orchestrating a $12-million mortgage-fraud scheme in Broward County.