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Published:Friday | January 17, 2020 | 8:02 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Indies Pharma Jamaica has entered the market for orthopaedic supplies in partnership with manufacturing company Vissco Rehabilitation Aids Limited of India. The products hit the shelves of pharmacies and medical supplies outlets this week as part...

Published:Sunday | December 29, 2019 | 12:37 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Chukka Caribbean Adventures is in the market for more than US$50 million of debt and equity to finance a range of projects that are intended to double the size of the business over the next six months to a year. The Jamaican business that now...

Published:Friday | December 27, 2019 | 12:44 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

It has not been an easy ride, but Grantley Stephenson says, on a whole, he has thoroughly enjoyed his 47 years working in shipping and shipping-related activities since he was made supervisor for Alcan bauxite company’s Port Esquivel pier in St...

Published:Sunday | December 22, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Jamaican sugar producers are not participating in a planned injection of some US$300 million to produce refined white sugar and more of the semi-refined product known as plantation white sugar, as the Caribbean sugar sector celebrates a Caribbean...

Published:Friday | December 20, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

The size of the Chinese investments in Jamaica is said to be around US$3 billion and growing, leading many persons to wonder what is the attraction. It turns out that it is easy for Chinese firms to set up shop in Jamaica, and they are loving it –...

Published:Friday | December 13, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

On January 1, new staffing and operational arrangements will take effect at gaming and lottery company Supreme Ventures Limited, with the intention of shaking up the business model for greater gains. Having made clear his emphasis on growing the...

Published:Friday | December 6, 2019 | 12:36 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Gaming company Supreme Ventures Limited, SVL, wants to be a major contender in the global sport betting market and Gary Peart is convinced that this growing segment has the potential to double the size of the business he was tapped to chair in June...

Published:Friday | December 6, 2019 | 12:35 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

A fter eight years in supporting roles at the multipurpose port run by Kingston Wharves Limited, Chief Operating Officer Mark Williams will assume the office of CEO of the KWL group on January 6. His appointment was announced by the board of the...

Published:Friday | November 29, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Shared office space provider Regus is about to open in Guyana, having already set up shop in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Peter Melhado’s board-level association with Sagicor dates back 15 years, time in which he has become well acquainted with the business of the financial services conglomerate, particularly on the investment and commercial banking sides. It’s that...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Luis Prata has a reputation as a turnaround manager. But that is not his mission in Jamaica. The new managing director of Desnoes...

Published:Friday | November 15, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Emboldened by its recent successes in the mainland Chinese market, Rainforest Seafoods now has its eyes set on entering the United States and United Kingdom markets. Company officials did not disclose the timeline for entry, but said plans were in...

Published:Friday | November 8, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Thalia Lyn is ready to step out of the top job as chief executive officer officer at Island Grill and devote more time to her charitable work, having more than accomplished the initial mission that led her in the late 1980s to give up her preferred...

Published:Friday | November 1, 2019 | 12:32 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

The Jamaican Government recently celebrated the belated certification of the now divested Norman Manley International Airport, NMIA, in Kingston as an aerodrome operation to international level. The accomplishment comes some 80 years behind the...

Published:Sunday | October 27, 2019 | 12:33 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

The National Housing Trust, (NHT) is again trying to find a buyer on the open market for the nine-acre Orange Grove property in Trelawny it acquired more than six years ago amid a firestorm of controversy. The property houses the shuttered...

Published:Friday | October 25, 2019 | 12:15 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Neither Andrae Lynch nor Tamara Lynch has a degree in chemistry, Andrae’s university studies in the subject having been cut short by illness some years ago. But the enterprising Jamaican couple have drawn on a shared passion for experimentation...

Published:Friday | October 18, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

One Jamaican exporter is reaping dividends from the ongoing trade war involving the United States and economic arch rival China. With US$185 billion worth of duties being slapped on American exports to China in retaliation for US imposition of US$...

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Ex-cop Herman Miller and wife Carolyn Rose Miller only have two products in their condiments range. And it would be easy to assume that their company is a long-standing player in the market, given the product packaging, slick promotional materials...

Published:Friday | October 11, 2019 | 12:26 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

J amaica’s state-backed facilitator Jamaica Business Development Corporation, JBDC has, in the 18 years since its it was set up, been stretching its relatively small annual budget to support and build a more sophisticated micro, small and medium...

Published:Friday | October 4, 2019 | 12:26 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Data analytics and market research company Blue Dot Data Intelligence Limited is a start-up that appears to be defying the slow growth and funding profile of small entrepreneurial ventures. Having reached five years into its operations this month...

Published:Friday | October 4, 2019 | 12:25 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Carl Sharpe considers himself a late arrival to the world of entrepreneurship. At 61, the father of five adult children and a mechanical engineer, who is about to retire from a 40-year practice in that profession, is building a promising chocolate-...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

  Chairman of J Wray & Nephew Limited Clement ‘Jimmy’ Lawrence has taken the reins as chairman of the Spirits Pool Association Limited, the 87-year-old umbrella organisation made up of rum distillers in Jamaica, amid a quarrel...

Published:Friday | September 20, 2019 | 12:12 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Over the past eight years, the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship Caribbean has invested more than US$1 million to help scores of entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses. That has largely been money from its initial 10-year grant – the size...

Published:Friday | September 13, 2019 | 12:00 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

Jovan Evans is building a complete water solutions business. It’s nothing high-tech. Just practical solutions to everyday problems stemming from inadequate or unreliable water supply. His immediate preoccupation is getting enough products to the...

Published:Friday | September 13, 2019 | 12:26 AMHuntley Medley - Senior Business Writer

It might be working feverishly behind the scenes to cool tempers and iron out differences as it normally does in these matters, but the secretariat for regional trade bloc Caricom is not saying anything publicly about the running battle between...

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