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Ireland's biggest restaurant opens in Belfast

Owner Nigel Rahman (pictured right) from the Bengal Brasserie in Belfast celebrating the opening of Ireland's largest restaurant on Belfast's Lisburn Road with dancer Laxshmi Kashyap.

Amazon's Kindle is an electronic book-reading device

E-book reader price slashed for launch

Amazon is cutting the price of its electronic book reader the Kindle as it prepares to launch the device in Britain, the company has announced.

Can firm use temporary staff to help it thwart strike action?

Question: I’ve been reading the press reports about Royal Mail’s plans to recruit 30,000 temps to deal with a backlog of mail caused by striking employees. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) claims this is illegal. My organisation may be facing its own strike soon and we had planned to ‘plug the gap’ with agency temps. So what is the position?

Ireland's biggest restaurant opens in Belfast

Owner Nigel Rahman (pictured right) from the Bengal Brasserie in Belfast celebrating the opening of Ireland's largest restaurant on Belfast's Lisburn Road with dancer Laxshmi Kashyap.

Divine intervention ? GCD director, Andrew Cuthbert, who develops software for churches

Andrews thrive as competitors fall by wayside

GCD Technologies was established amidst the dot.com bubble in 1999. Yet, unlike many of its peers, the company has not only survived, but is doing very well.

Few people will make a saving by crossing the border to buy petrol

Pockets get hit as the pound heads to parity with the euro

Cross-border shopping is becoming much more expensive for people from Northern Ireland, with the pound's steady fall against the euro.

It is estimated that the total value of offshore assets is in excess of $7 trillion

Is a tax haven a safe haven?

IN the current circumstances, any mention of offshore investments is likely to elicit a fairly negative response from potential investors. People are still smarting from the Icelandic debacle, so fear is understandable.

Landlords can have rental losses if expenses are more than their rents, particularly if they have no tenants

When investing in the ‘to let’ market doesn’t always pay off

With the property market still depressed, today I am going to take a run through some of the tax issues which may be important for those people who bought investment properties to let out, or perhaps to rent, and now can’t sell them.

Evelyn Collins says people in Northern Ireland are more willing to accept people coming from minority ethnic groups than before

Ten years of fighting hard just to get on Equality terms

As businesses across Northern Ireland take part in anti-racist workplace week campaign, Evelyn Collins, chief executive of the equality commission, talks about how they are changing life

Company Snapshot: Northstone Ltd

Northstone, formerly known as Farrans, is one of Northern Ireland’s largest building and civil engineering contractors. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of CRH (Cement Roadstone Holdings), registered in Dublin.

Colin Henry

Name: Colin Henry.
Company: Hughes Insurance
Position: Commercial business development executive
Role: Colin is responsible for developing new business in the North and North West
Track record: Colin has 25 |years experience within the insurance industry where he gained the NEBOSH General Health & Safety qualification.

Car industry should speed up

It's a Friday night; you have endured a busy week in the office and are looking forward to the weekend, which enables you to do the things your work’s diary doesn’t permit Monday to Friday.