Stories by Avia Collinder

The Jamaican police is refining strategy to hit human traffickers “in the pocketbook”, says Deputy Superintendent of Police Carl Berry, even as the perpetrators are increasingly burrowing underground by switching to crytocurrencies to...

Private pharmacies have struck a new agreement with the state-backed drug-distribution programme that will see them operating as business partners instead of rivals, starting this month.Competition from the Drug Serv programme operated by the...

Abe Dabdoub said last Friday that he is targeting a market of teachers, policemen, hotel workers and young professionals for a multistorey development that is expected to break ground in January at Coral Gardens in Montego Bay.The complex will...

Ongoing roadworks for a new traffic system in Barbican is causing some discomfort for clients of the Hi-Lo Food Stores supermarket, a store for which a...

CashWiz Jamaica will open its fifth pawnshop in Portmore, which will become its flagship operation, but the company has even bigger plans to roll out another 10 outlets in two years, to keep pace with demand.Regional Manager Lilieth Douglas says the...

The combination of higher pricing for annuities, after the last debt exchange event in Jamaica four years ago the NDX followed by new accounting requirements, have made it more difficult to accumulate pensions, according to actuarial expert...

Courtney Campbell, group president and CEO, Victoria Mutual Group indicates that with increasing life expectancy, the reliance of older Jamaicans on those in the workforce - referred to as the...

JMMB Bank, the newest entrant and one of the smallest commercial banks is making an aggressive push for market one month into its market debut with an invitation to switch, and a promise to tamp down on fees.The invitation issued via email to the...

Business process outsourcing firm Conduent Jamaica says it needs 300 workers and will be holding a job fair for pre-selected applicants, in a departure from its open-door invitations last year that resulted in the company’s complex being...

Hi-Lo supermarket will be developing an online shopping platform, which it plans to roll out next year.Groceries ordered and paid for through the platform will be delivered to households, at additional cost, says General Manager of Hi-Lo Food Stores...

Although JN Bank Limited is a new kid on the block in commercial banking, it comes to the market with decades of history as the premier private mortgage...

Consultations on a new structure under which regulators can step in to save financial firms from insolvency or wind up failing operations have wrapped up and the proposal for the so-called Special Resolution Regime is now before Cabinet for...