Stories by Neville Graham

The plastics ban, which takes effect on January 1, will see Agri & Industrial Packaging Limited cutting a fifth of its workforce...

The used-car sector is walking back its howls of protest over the pre-shipment inspection policy for motor vehicles that they initially pronounced would have been the death knell of vulnerable dealers.But that was last year.Now, some 16 months into...

Nearly two years after serious market inroads for his egg-processing business, Damion Crawford's Crafton Holdings is in wait-and-see mode, based on the perceived threat of subsidised American poultry imports.Crawford says his egg production company...

SSL Venture Capital Jamaica Limited, the company that gobbled up the failed C2W Music start-up, and listed on the market last month in a reverse takeover, has announced three new investments in marketing outfits.However, SSL Ventures has not...

Indies Pharma Jamaica Limited will be making a second run at the market, this time with a bond offer that is meant to finance its acquisition of a foreign company.CEO Dr Guna Muppuri is in the process of doing due diligence on the target, which will...

Pepsi-Cola Jamaica Bottling Company is spending more than a billion dollars on a new line for a product that will hit retail shelves by year end, adding Jamaica to a limited number of markets for the largely unknown drink.With added caffeine and...

Fearing backlash from foreign banking partners, local lenders are reluctant to do business with the emergent cannabis industry.Senator Mark Golding, a former minister of justice and now opposition spokesman on finance, is pitching to industry...

Dr Cliff Riley, executive director of the Scientific Research Council, says that while Jamaica likes to boast about its high-quality marijuana, popularly referred to as ganja, there is no precise or settled definition of what that means.Riley also...

British Caribbean Insurance Company (BCIC) is tracking the driving behaviour of auto insurance policyholders, with their consent.Since late 2017, the company has been pilot-testing the Amber Connect vehicle-tracking device on privately owned motor...

A coalition of business students have devised a new method of producing building material that will help to resolve the pile up of plastic bottles in Jamaica, at least to the degree that they are able to commercialise and market the product.Through...

Berger Paints Jamaica Chairman Ray Sumairsingh was left red-faced as he sought to explain how directors of the company, who had recommended a sell-off of outstanding shares by minority shareholders, were recorded as still being in possession of...

The Insurance Association of Jamaica (IAJ) is currently undertaking the final phase of testing an insured vehicle information system (IVIS), which will allow motorists and other persons involved in accidents to determine whether or not those...