Business
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Jeff Bezos Predicts AI Could Bring a Three-Day Workweek, but Will Workers Share the Benefits?
Jeff Bezos says AI could make a three-day workweek normal and let families live on one income. History suggests productivity gains do not reach…
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U.S. Stocks Hit Records on Profit Hopes, Even as War, Oil and High Yields Linger
U.S. stocks hit fresh highs as investors bet on strong earnings despite war, elevated oil prices and Treasury yields above 5 percent.
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Burkina Faso Opens First Gold Refinery as Traoré Presses Sovereignty Agenda
Captain Ibrahim Traoré has opened Burkina Faso’s first gold refinery, the clearest economic break yet from its old reliance on foreign processing. The political…
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Locked Out by Paperwork: Inside the Maze of Opening a Bank Account in SVG
A Vincentian living overseas can be asked for a police certificate, years of tax returns and notarized signatures just to open a savings account…
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Royal Caribbean Buys Half of Sandals in US$3 Billion Deal
Royal Caribbean will pay about US$3 billion for 50% of Sandals and Beaches Resorts. The Stewart family keeps the other half; the deal should…
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Wendy’s giant franchisee files Chapter 11 as the burger chain’s sales slump hits the operators
One of Wendy’s biggest US franchise owners, Meritage Hospitality Group, has filed for Chapter 11 after years of weak traffic, costly beef, and a…
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Young Resigns as Invest SVG Head Amid South Korea Mission Fallout
Anna Young has resigned as Executive Director of Invest SVG with immediate effect. Nadine Agard-Juillerat steps in as acting head, two days after a…
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Lil Durk acquitted of all charges in Los Angeles murder-for-hire trial
US rapper Lil Durk has been found not guilty on all charges in a federal murder-for-hire trial over a 2022 Los Angeles shooting. He…
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Anthropic Alignment Lead Says There Is More Than a 10% Chance AI ‘Could Kill All Humans’ This Decade
Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead says he believes there is a greater than 10 percent chance AI could kill all humans within the decade, and…
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Road work is not a development plan: the questions the NDP still owes South Leeward
Grenville Williams, the ULP candidate who lost South Leeward, is pressing the NDP for the economic, crime, and development plans it promised. A commentary…