Published:Monday | April 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
App-based rideshare and courier service Get There Jamaica Limited is negotiating partnerships with mobile money service Quisk to make its payment platform more accessible to potential clients and concurrently build up market share...
Published:Wednesday | April 4, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
StartupRobot, a software development firm that made its name locally by helping new companies and individuals ease the pain of completing business registrations, is spreading its talents to others in the Caribbean in need of tech support.The tech...
Published:Thursday | March 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
A landowner in St Elizabeth has listed property in Hodges for nearly $9 billion, citing the prospect of oil discoveries offshore that area of Jamaica.The listing with the Multiple Listing Service of the Realtors Association of Jamaica invites local...
Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that Cabinet has approved the Bernard Lodge Land Use Master Plan for the development of an urban community in the area once dedicated solely to sugar cane...
Published:Monday | March 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA) under whose umbrella the commodity boards have been merged, will start accepting licensing applications on April 1.JACRA, which...
Published:Monday | March 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Anthony Laura, the general counsel and chief administrative officer for Noranda Bauxite Jamaica, says the new United States tariffs could serve to boost the company's output, but the precise market...
Published:Wednesday | March 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
GraceKennedy Limited (GK) and its partner Western Union announced today an expansion of the company’s digital money transfer service, which will allow Jamaicans to send funds via an online platform to 200 countries globally. Effective April 1...
Published:Thursday | March 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Jamaican realty company La Maison Property Services Limited has become a franchisee of an American operation called Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC and has rebranded under the new name.La Maison's name change to Better Homes and Gardens...
Published:Friday | March 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
After 20 years of executive support to government officials and diplomats, Marcia Yateman parlayed her talent for administration and project management into an outsourcing company that provides 'virtual administrative support'.Four years ago, she...
Published:Thursday | March 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Money transfer company WorldRemit has made a bid for even more of the online remittance market with a new service for Jamaicans in New York, according to regional head, Erick Schneider.The company, through local agents such as JMMB and VMBS, has...
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
The Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, UWI Mona, is cleared to recruit students from the United States who qualify for financing from their federal government.It took two years for the university to reach agreement with the US...
Published:Monday | February 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Sagicor Group Jamaica and Playa Hotels have reached agreement on combining hotel operations. “We are investing our hotels in their business,” Sagicor Group chairman Richard Byles told the Financial Gleaner. “They are...
Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Howard Johnson Jr, president of the Realtors' Association of Jamaica (RAJ) says that Jamaica is now experiencing a "quasi sellers market", with one indicator being the swift sale of units.Inventory is on the uptick, Johnson said, but so are sales."...
Published:Tuesday | February 6, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) regulator of the securities market, says Sagicor Investments Jamaica Limited continues to lead the unit trust market, with nearly half of the assets under management.In the span of one year, unit trusts and...
Published:Friday | January 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
The Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association, JUCDA, has charged that Japanese dealers are competing directly with local operators by selling directly to Jamaican car buyers in contravention of their licence.JUCDA president Lynvalle Hamilton said that...
Published:Friday | January 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Minister of Finance Audley Shaw is assuring auto dealers that the pre-inspection of used car imports would be transparent, in an effort to allay concerns that the new arrangement to take effect February 1 would be disruptive to their businesses.The...
Published:Monday | January 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Jamaica's cruise tourism market is expected at the very least to match last year's unexpected performance, but there is hope that the number of visitors could edge even closer two million passengers if current growth trajectories are maintained.The...
Published:Friday | January 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Coffee processor Jamaica Standard Products Company Limited will begin retailing single serve coffee capsules under the Island Blue and High Mountain brands this year, according to General Manager John O. Minott, who is looking to reinvigorate volume...
Published:Monday | January 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
The National Housing Trust (NHT) expects to disburse $5.3 billion in contribution refunds this year.Under the agency's Contribution Refund Toward Deposit, or CRTD, facility, would-be homeowners may use their refundable NHT contributions towards home...
Published:Thursday | January 11, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Aiming to expand in Europe, Jamaican conglomerate GraceKennedy Limited (GK) is considering the acquisition of a sales and distribution business - or, alternatively, its own start-up food company - in Germany.Group CEO Don Wehby also told the...
Published:Friday | January 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
David Morrison, president of Morrison Financial, now claims to be the principal developer of the Gates of Edgehill residential project in St Mary, based on an agreement with former head, Rollyn Bennett.Morrison says his firm is fully backing the...
Published:Tuesday | January 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
The University of the West Indies (UWI) is looking carefully at the timing of construction of the final set of rooms under the three-phase plan to increase student accommodation on the Mona campus, according to its concession partner.But the...
Published:Friday | January 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
The National Housing Trust (NHT), which last September announced plans for the long-awaited Ruthven Towers in Kingston, says that a redesign of the development is under way and is the cause of a delay in construction.The redesign is likely to affect...
Published:Friday | December 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder
Jamaicans are relying less on cash and more on point-of-sale and Internet transactions, according to local banks and their regulator, the Bank of Jamaica, BOJ.Those findings predated the...
