Las Vegas places a big bet on China’s only gambling mecca

Nobody has put a bigger bet on Macao, the only place in China with legalized gambling, than the Las Vegas Sands Corp., which opened the 3,000-suite Venetian in 2007 as the cornerstone of a 20,000-room complex. Built to handle Macao’s 55 percent annual growth in gambling, the casino is three times the size of the [...]

Snacks replacing banana exports at Jamaica Producers

By Carl Gilchrist
Jamaica Producers (JP) Group says it is already seeing weekly sales of 900,000 bags of banana chips locally and is looking to build out similar markets for its cassava chips, launched on Wednesday.
The company, just months ago, decided to make a strategic shift from exporting bananas, on which its business was originally built, [...]