Stories by Avia Collinder

The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean, the UCC Group, has hired consultants to develop a franchising structure that the institution will use to grow throughout...

A 138 Student Living Jamaica representative said Monday that 300 police recruits will boost occupancy levels at its new halls every six months, following a new deal struck between the University of the West Indies and the Jamaica Constabulary Force...

Dr Keith Amiel, head of corporate affairs at CB Group, says a rendering facility to be constructed at the company's new home base at Hill Run will produce chicken meal a product of chicken waste for export only.Chicken meal, or protein meal as it...

One of Jamaica's least known but paradoxically popular citrus fruits appears to be weathering the greening and other diseases that have shrunk national supplies of other fresh fruit, through replanting of the orchard.For more than 80 years, the...

Trade Winds Citrus Limited, maker of Tru-Juice beverages, is planning to move into exports with its tetra pak line of products to Caribbean markets.It will also be bottling two new chilled products, green vegetable and beet root juices, for local...

Gary Matalon, CEO of KLE Group Limited, is projecting a rise in revenue for the listed company from both the initial franchise fee and royalties arising from the new deal between associate company FranJam and United Kingdom-based Casual Dining...

JMMB Merchant bank (JMMBMB), a subsidiary of the JMMB Group,  has become the island's eighth commercial bank following receipt of a licence on Friday, August 14. In September 2016,  the central bank approved JMMBMB's...

Orville Lewis, operations manager at Bevad Management Services Limited, confirmed on Friday that the New Kingston Shopping Centre has been sold and placed under new management.Cable and Wireless Pension Fund sold the complex to Josa Investments...

Trustee for Jamaica Beverages Limited, Wilfred Baghaloo, says he is restructuring the company's finances under bankruptcy protection, and would soon put a proposal to creditors for rehabilitation of the business.Baghaloo, a director of PwC Jamaica,...

COK Sodality Credit Union, whose remittance business was hit last year by account closures linked to derisking by correspondent banks is now shrugging off the experience and forging new ties with local money-transfer businesses.Back in September...

First Global Bank Limited, Jamaica's second-smallest commercial bank, is about to grow its network nearly fivefold but through a system of mini branches that...

Jamaica Broilers Group is soon to introduce burgers and hot dogs and sausages to the Cayman Islands market, under plans to boost its regional exports.The poultry group began talking up its Caribbean footprint after local rival CB Foods diversified...